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- The internets are now up and tubin' at our place, after like two months! Thank you, Corey

yourusername, for letting the install dude into the house.

- Mung bean sprouts are roughly the most delicious thing in the whole world. Also, the farmer's market is roughly the most delicious place to shop in the whole world.

- hackmode will be up Pretty Soon. Brett

zip4096 was like "what about virtualized hosting"? And I really like that idea, and it's a lot less expensive than colocation. Plus Xen rocks really hard.

- Talk Like A Pirate Day seems to have lost some momentum, questionmark? Discuss.

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From:

oniugnip.livejournal.com

Well, we could say "here's our server, please host it!" and pay a lot for that.

Instead of that, though, we could rent out a Xen'd server for more like $30 or $50! One such company that does this is here:

http://www.gplhost.com/hosting-vps.html

(and you still get root!)

From:

praetorian42.livejournal.com

Doesn't that defeat the purpose of having our own machine, though? I already have such a setup and it is nothing special. In my mind, virtualized hosting is barely a step up from straight-up shared hosting.

I was really looking forward to unshared bandwidth. At SiteSouth we'd get 1 mbps shared amongst only the 5-10ish people using hackmode. With a regular virtualized server you'd be sharing with 50ish people. On my existing setup I rarely get 10% of the machine's total RAM, CPU power or bandwidth- which really hurts when I need it (which is incredibly rare for myself and, I'd imagine, anybody else using it. Therefore, when you needed it, you could get nearly 100% without anybody complaining).

So, which would you rather have, 3% of a machine for $30 or 20% of a machine for $50 (if that)?

Plus, I'd be willing to foot a larger-than-average portion of the bill considering some possible future projects. How many people are interested? 2U at SiteSouth is only $164/month. Divided by 5 and that's equivalent to the cheapest VPS you could find. I see no reason to avoid this choice.