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Persistent desktop accessible from anywhere via VPN.

• AdamTReineke 16y ago
  With no risk of hardware failure.
  • jonknee 16y ago
    Well, minimal. http://www.google.com/search?q=amazon+ec2+down http://www.google.com/search?q=amazon+ec2+down
• retroafroman 16y ago
  He said he shuts the machine down on nights and weekends. I am not familiar with EC2, but doesn't that mean that the desktop isn't persistent from day to day? Yes, he can connect and disconnect at will throughout the day while it stays the same, but shutting down the machine at night shuts down all the apps he had open I assume. Am I wrong?
  • dedward 16y ago
    No differently than if you shut your computer down and boot it up again, if he's configured it accordingly with an elastic block store for the filesystem, etc.
  • JulianMorrison 16y ago
    Not if you shut down with "hibernate".
• drivebyacct2 16y ago
  I have that too. It costs me nothing (my electricity is comped currently), it's a faster machine and I have physical control of it if necessary.
  • dedward 16y ago
    What do you do when it breaks? Who pays for the bandwdith? How much do you have? What if your house burns down?