[fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?

[noreply at z505.com]

On 2017-03-10 20:35, Travis Siegel wrote:
> Just for reference, a T1 hasn't costed thousands of dollars for more
> than 20 years.  The last time I had one, it was less than 600 a month,
> and that was more than 10 years ago.

Indeed, I only did research on them about 15-20 years ago and haven't 
done any research on them since.

IMO every person should be able to run their own server in their home at 
low cost. ISP's are simply ripping people off, IMO.
It does not cost 600 dollars a month to "ship" electricity to someone's 
house....
They have almost no costs involved other than installing the wires and 
boxes and infrastructure. Indeed the infrastructure had up front costs, 
but there is a reason why telephone companies are multi million dollar 
for profit companies: Because suckers pay for their services at inflated 
prices.

Still I'm happy that they give you good download speeds for a good price 
, just not the upload speeds

> 
> Of course, these days, with fiber, and highspeed dsl, a T1 line is
> relatively useless considering the cost and transfer speeds.
> 

The speeds still are not any faster than a 10/100 network card which is 
very old technology.
I'd like to see internet speeds reach the 1000 speed cards, and for wifi 
to also improve to that.
But this is just a dreamer speaking.

Even usb2.0 speed is pretty slow compared to a 1000 card. So why use 
internet at usb 2.0 speeds or 10/100 card speeds?  But again: just 
dreaming here...