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• war1025 6y ago
  From the website [1]: > Fortunately, today's modern cloud services like Microsoft Azure make it possible to do this without breaking the bank! So I'd guess it's not for that. [1] https://haveibeenpwned.com/About https://haveibeenpwned.com/About
  • pmh 6y ago
    In the post, but easy to miss: >I do a lot of data processing in SQL Server which can be really memory intensive (no, the cloud is not always the solution to this, I've got a draft blog post on that) Add to that: video/photo editing, live-streaming, development, and general purpose usage, and it's not an unreasonable setup.
• notatoad 6y ago
  seems like the sort of thing that would be better suited to an AWS instance (or azure, if you're a regional director at microsoft) rather than running a crazy power-hungry computer as your primary workstation.
  • simcop2387 6y ago
    He may very well have it locally for better security when doing some of tne analysis and other work for getting those dumps.