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

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On 2017-03-10 19:03, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> On 2017-03-10 23:15, Bo Berglund wrote:
>> Here in Sweden I am on a 250/100 Mbit/s fiber connection to my home
>> for 339 SEK/month (that is about 38 USD/month)
> 
> I've noticed recently that many EU countries offer MUCH better deals
> than the UK. The UK Government is making a lot of noise about improving
> out internet.
> 
> Now compared to South Africa, where I lived before, there they consider
> "super fast broadband" a 4Mbps line and the most sold deal is still a
> 128-256Kbps connections!!! :-( Upload speeds are even slower. South
> Africa's internet is totally useless!

Unless you just change the entire bloatware software industry to stop 
shipping 290 MB products that could be 1MB instead.  Programs like 
uTorrent are packed with features and are only 2.29MB to download, 
whereas other apps on the internet (like chromium embedded) are 
150-300MB with basically the same feature set.

Wirth's software law:
Wirth's Law states that computer software increases in complexity faster 
than does the ability of available hardware to run it.

But since we have to deal with this, indeed I'd like countries to 
support a faster internet connections to match up to these:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terabit_Ethernet

our current internet speeds are basically usb 1.0/2.0 speeds, if not 
worse, as a usb upload AFAIK is the same as a download? speed.