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Go, hometown! As someone who grew up in what used to be an incredibly lame and mostly uneducated city, this makes me so happy. San Antonio has come so far.
by chrissnell 13y ago
Go, hometown! As someone who grew up in what used to be an incredibly lame and mostly uneducated city, this makes me so happy. San Antonio has come so far. A huge driver behind this is the success of Rackspace and the leadership of it's chairman and co-founder, Graham Weston.
I hope that founders of startups will consider forming their companies in SA. San Antonio has so much going for it: the hometown of one of the world's largest cloud hosting companies, fast Google Fiber coming soon, the booming Pearl district, Geekdom, low cost of living, great weather, awesome food, and so much more. I believe strongly that the future of the tech economy will happen outside of the SFBA and I feel that Google Fiber's bets point strongly to that.
- dictum 13y ago>I hope that founders of startups will consider forming their companies in SA Which makes me wonder: can businesses use Google Fiber? I was under the impression it's a consumer-only service. Would they allow servers not for personal usage for startups? (I really hope more startups appear in cities where many households have Gigabit connections. I can't wait to see what could be done with fast Internet access.)
- masklinn 13y ago> I was under the impression it's a consumer-only service. You're correct: > We are currently focused on our Fiber-to-the-home network, which is for residential consumers. We hope to be able to offer Fiber to small businesses at some point in the future. To stay updated on any new developments, please follow our blog http://googlefiberblog.blogspot.com/ http://googlefiberblog.blogspot.com/ but that mostly means there's little uptime guarantee, a small business/startup could use GF either eating potential downtime or with a backup stabler line in case fiber goes down.