[Cerowrt-devel] [Bloat] Dave Täht quoted in the ACLU blog

[Dave Taht]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Rick Jones <rick.jones2 at hp.com> wrote:
> On 06/24/2014 12:45 PM, Dave Taht wrote:
>>
>> In an age where you have, say, gbit fiber to your business, it makes quite
>> a lot of sense from a security and maintenence perspective
>> to be hosting your own data and servers on your own darn premise, not
>> elsewhere.
>
>
> Perhaps, but where does having gigabit fibre to a business imply the
> business has the space, power, and cooling to host all the servers it might
> need/wish to have?

I didn't say there aren't compelling reasons also to co-locate in a data center,
but for many uses today, being able to host a basic website, some service,
email, etc at your own location, is perfectly doable, and possibly
preferable to co-locating places where things like this are happening:

http://fish2.com/ipmi/

or this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

>
>
>> I am glad gfiber exists to put a scare into certain monopolists, but
>> even then I'd be tons happier if municipalities treated basic wired
>> connectivity as we do roads. One of the great "Secrets" of silicon
>> valley is it got wired for fiber early, through the vision and
>> foresight of people like Brian Reid and everybody got easy access.
>
>
> That must be a really well-kept secret as I am aware of no fibre running to
> my house in Sunnyvale :)

The fiber loop around palo alto has quite the inspiring story behind
it. Maybe brian will
write it down one day, or already has.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Reid_(computer_scientist)


> rick jones
> speaking for myself alone



-- 
Dave Täht

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