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The advantage of this little computer over buying a slice of a slice of somebody's EC2 box would be had in cases where IO had to happen in a particular physical
by ShabbyDoo 17y ago
The advantage of this little computer over buying a slice of a slice of somebody's EC2 box would be had in cases where IO had to happen in a particular physical place. And, this is primarily limited to cases where one wants to monitor/control physical things and pipe that data to/from that physical location. So, monitoring one's swimming pool temperature might be a good use case, but why would anyone want a small network server, especially in a future of more ubiquitous connectivity? I get the whole mobile use case as well, but I think it falls into the category of wanting IO close to a physical thing (in this case, yourself).
- babo 17y agoRunning cost of this is way lower than an EC2 box, even if you add a dedicated ADSL line, it's a cheap way to run automated processes.
- ShabbyDoo 17y agoAgree. I was just suggesting that, presuming people wanted to purchase computing power in units this small, people could sell 1/500th of a EC2 slice with a gig/month of bandwith or whatever. It's proximity to non-networked IO that makes this thing necessary/useful.