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$800 gets you a LOT more than an iPad. I can see the advantage of working in the cloud, but working off of an iPad to smells of "hey! hey everyone!! look at me!
by orthecreedence 15y ago
$800 gets you a LOT more than an iPad. I can see the advantage of working in the cloud, but working off of an iPad to smells of "hey! hey everyone!! look at me! look what I'm doing!" Not to mention there is now a monthly fee to program. That's not economical.
- ricardobeat 15y agoI don't recall the article being "Programming on the cheap". You can get a used 12-core station for that money. Or a bike.
- pseudonym 15y agoJust to toss this out here, but $20/mo for a linode, is not a huge investment, and it's something that I have even without doing everything "in the cloud". It's handy for those quick file transfers, a small portfolio site, and since you have root access, you can quickly set up or take down any odd services without the hassle of finding a distinct hosting service (Mumble, Mercurial, Subversion, or what have you). But that's just my two cents.
- Buzzzz 15y agoHow does the cost of light usages like this compares to aws?
- pseudonym 15y agoTo be honest, I couldn't tell you-- for the amount of usage that I have on it, it's a flat $20/mo, and I believe I have something like 20G of HD space and 200G of bandwidth, which I've never come close to using up (it's amazing how small your OS is when you're not running a gui). The really nice thing, imo, is the fact that you can pay a couple bucks per month piecemeal to increase any one stat of the machine as you need it.