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Has anyone else had experience with BuyVM? It seems really quite inexpensive.
In the comments someone mentions BuyVM and their VM setups with 512MB RAM, 2 CPU cores, and 50GB space are just $6.00/mn. It seems to me that's a much better deal. Has anyone else had experience with BuyVM? It seems really quite inexpensive.
Their VPS boxes "come with the ability to run OpenVPN, PPTP, GRE and SIT tunnels by default". I've had a harder time setting up the traffic forwarding than I did on a XEN box, but I'm not particularly good with VPN technologies...
In general, the whole process was pretty painless... An interesting bonus: They have a pretty active IRC channel
A side-question, but does anyone have recommendations about where to buy a Sheeva or Guru plug in the US? (The primary seller I can find[1] has a perpetual 4 week wait for all items, and that worries me.) [1] http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/
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> And places that hand out IP numbers to unknown MAC addresses should get a better network administrator. What about coffee shops, hotels, libraries, etc that offer free wireless? Hm. Build one with a solar panel and get it onto the roof of your local starbucks.
Pay off a barista and have them put a nondescript box somewhere out of sight but plugged in to the wall.
Open these ports on your firewall, please.
Looks like Tonido (the maker of the hardware) is looking to get directly into the hosting business, at the somewhat ridiculous price of $20/month: http://www.tonido.com/tonidocloud_what.html
What are the use cases for this device which are not covered by either (1) an EC2 "micro" instance ($82 up front + $0.007/hour * 3 years * 365 days * 24 hours/day == $7.38/month) or (2) a small form factor server in my home? If we ignore the toy/coolness factor of having such a small form factor device, are there any compelling use cases? I can't think of any.
Possible use case: If I can put a bigger hard drive inside this, it would be a nice personal mini "mozy" backup service for me. No, it wouldn't be terabytes of stuff, but the dedicated connection would be worth it.
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Pay off a barista and have them put a nondescript box somewhere out of sight but plugged in to the wall.
Hey, Barista! Open these ports on your firewall, please.
I was told it would be set up on the Friday after. Didn't happen. UPS lost some shipment items in the post.
I was told it would be set up soon. Last Saturday comes round and AGAIN, UPS lost the shipment. They then said that they were going to use FedEx instead now.
Received an email this morning saying that they can't install my plug because there's no enough room in the data centre and are now sending me the Plug and external HDD through the post, which is probably fair. I'm still wondering WHAT the hell I'm going to do with it using my ridiculously slow internet connection.
I think the offer is a bit too good to be completely true. Maybe in a few months, when they're earning a bit more money, they can offer more services but until then, I don't think you're going to have much luck. It looks like they've disabled the order form anyway.