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CAaaS+P is the business model of the future.
by Nathanael_M 4y ago
CAaaS+P is the business model of the future.
- agilob 4y agoPlant as a service :(
- Nathanael_M 4y agoThis is not the solarpunk future of my dreams. I self-host my plants. My plants are on-prem bare-dirt.
- faddypaddy34 4y agoAs they should be.
- dylan604 4y agoWhat happens when you need to go out of town for an extended period? If it was just another ${X}aaS, you could temporarily suspend those plant instances and avoid the charges. Their work would be unused during that period anyway, so why pay for it? On-prem would still continue to accrue those charges. Also, what happens if you have your large extended family over for the holidays? Your on-prem plants would be unable to handle the load and start returning 504 type errors. With ${X}aaS you could just spin up a few more instances or even upgrade to larger instance types. Once the family holiday nightmare is over, you just spin them down again.
- agilob 4y ago> Their work would be unused during that period anyway, so why pay for it? should people in Silesia or Dheli pay triple price of London, because air pollution is bigger problem there, so cleaning air has more value?
- dylan604 4y agoSure, why shouldn't they be subjected to spot pricing too?
- LawTalkingGuy 4y agoShould is a weird word here, they will. It's a market question not a morality question.
- andsoitis 4y agoAnd IP-unemcumbered.
- dylan604 4y agoUnless you use Monsanto seeds
- kibibyte 4y agoPlant subscription boxes are a thing, so we're not _that_ far off.
- fuzzfactor 4y agoIn some ways that's nothing new under the sun. One of my student jobs in the 1970's was with a company that provided and serviced the decorative plants in restaurants and hotels. We would go there every week and take them outside to be watered, drained, and given the only sunshine they were going to see for a while. Anything that was looking sick we replaced with spares and rehabilitated.