From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 868DE1381F3 for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2012 13:26:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1612521C07B; Fri, 14 Dec 2012 13:26:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nm8.bullet.mail.ukl.yahoo.com (nm8.bullet.mail.ukl.yahoo.com [217.146.182.249]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0EA5C21C053 for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2012 13:25:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [217.146.183.181] by nm8.bullet.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 14 Dec 2012 13:25:01 -0000 Received: from [77.238.184.63] by tm12.bullet.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 14 Dec 2012 13:25:01 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp132.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 14 Dec 2012 13:25:01 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.co.uk; s=s1024; t=1355491501; bh=h2sboSBgDLwNj0gnpRD24HWhgmP7kqkHHoiAcul04dk=; h=X-Yahoo-Newman-Id:Message-ID:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-SMTP:Received:Date:From:To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:X-Mailer:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=smnhE38QNgZRa23Vy80U8Wq9BwMqygNUAcVhJ7woBWdkZBHLUFCzHE5QtU7mL0JFLCq+yXYB+FF07eXJq7dIjkUUXdJ7Uy/JaCEePivHrrPDaFxkvyEN65KDGrwQxXeY5ciuU/TGQjyhCLUDgrN3BNLlEznxj37mUOiJ9gCdavw= X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 469273.17063.bm@smtp132.mail.ukl.yahoo.com Message-ID: <469273.17063.bm@smtp132.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: ruRqAisVM1k3t8irx2S8Aca9Mz7J19ldbrPRYWXaQ0D3xeg aVmwvCJS6X5C.D1whgDRfHxo2RdOEwhQAv1L_lOqh0QWqAROcDgzNSDiUN0H G0l5xKE06Yu7s11a2K7Y0W2EJtS5SNuL7wVOy5b0xG1Ipj3oo4H0AZwhsyi_ CRLf57FMPxJR_vdX4qXSaWGuWMBg0HonkJKW7tSJxft3zb3LuFECKAzu67P2 vIxtERP4cgITZxhkLAChTAQz1LwW_fuQ6u7AS8zKtheG_wykI9bZaak5x1c6 jHkfo6FsBt3PCmaUmtNnaPgqz1zvAhjvXnvHBLOwX07IcbXgYtQh7J2OfMsM WysJ3ulzwxAVMAXXPIvALg_HFHxt9QwBnv0Ot5g_jiEfKkQQBp8kUaJU6BIT 1Ej.FfeAlswCjRAkdZEHoYMSdD51R9MJl8VcV0kKH4YI- X-Yahoo-SMTP: UxXxlhuswBC4wbdewolpwSmT1iJVzQ-- Received: from sprat (ma1l1ists@92.27.156.6 with login) by smtp132.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with SMTP; 14 Dec 2012 13:25:01 +0000 GMT Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 13:24:43 +0000 From: Kevin Chadwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} dedicated server or cloud server? In-Reply-To: References: <50CAE9D4.4000402@binarywings.net> X-Mailer: KeVs Mailer Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 65308912-1710-4bd9-9d8c-0242a382ad2d X-Archives-Hash: 19a704a5ecaa99f11160d3af2dc90117 > Doesn't a good cloud server also have potentially higher availability > compared to dedicated? Perhaps at your price point through redundancy which could be applied to dedicated all be it at higher cost and so potentially still more reliable and certainly more secure and also tested in almost any case (lookup the paper about timing attacks on amazon services etc.). -- _______________________________________________________________________ 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface' (Doug McIlroy) _______________________________________________________________________