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would probably be a lot of work for you. I mean the cheapest slices over at Slicehost are $20/mon and that should be pretty decent for experimentation puporses

would probably be a lot of work for you. I mean the cheapest slices over at Slicehost are $20/mon and that should be pretty decent for experimentation puporses. Granted 256mb of RAM isn't a lot but hell I managed to get Firefox to start...

patio11 17y ago
Experimentation nothing -- I ran my business on 256mb of RAM for years. Apropos the discussion we had earlier today: do you want to be the guy who cleans up after the guys who are either insufficiently invested in the idea of owning a startup to pony up $20 a month, or alternatively are so unskilled that they cannot find $20 a month of gainful employment?
- jacquesm 17y ago
  Those that can afford it should probably not apply for this, I'm thinking about people that can't afford it.
  - easp 17y ago
    How many people who are capable of writing a viable app but can't afford $20/month or less also lack friends who would give them some server space? I'm serious about this. If someone is so painfully shy or otherwise socially incompetent that they know no one who would give them an account then how are are they going to deal with cultivating customers or buyers? If their issue is that they just don't have the right friends, then I'd think the right answer is to start cultivating geeky & entrepreneurial friends for the sake of just connecting with some like minded people. Helping facilitate that sort of thing sounds like a fine thing to experiment with, being able to offer them some free server space would just be gravy.
    - jacquesm 17y ago
      Good points. I think that the answer to the first question is probably almost everybody in the third world for starters, and probably a fair number of people in the former eastblock countries, especially students. In the 'developed' world probably fewer but it would not surprise me if there are thousands of people in a situation where a free server would just give them the leg up they need to get to 'ramen profitable'.

patio11 17y ago

Experimentation nothing -- I ran my business on 256mb of RAM for years. Apropos the discussion we had earlier today: do you want to be the guy who cleans up after the guys who are either insufficiently invested in the idea of owning a startup to pony up $20 a month, or alternatively are so unskilled that they cannot find $20 a month of gainful employment?

jacquesm 17y ago
Those that can afford it should probably not apply for this, I'm thinking about people that can't afford it.
- easp 17y ago
  How many people who are capable of writing a viable app but can't afford $20/month or less also lack friends who would give them some server space? I'm serious about this. If someone is so painfully shy or otherwise socially incompetent that they know no one who would give them an account then how are are they going to deal with cultivating customers or buyers? If their issue is that they just don't have the right friends, then I'd think the right answer is to start cultivating geeky & entrepreneurial friends for the sake of just connecting with some like minded people. Helping facilitate that sort of thing sounds like a fine thing to experiment with, being able to offer them some free server space would just be gravy.
  - jacquesm 17y ago
    Good points. I think that the answer to the first question is probably almost everybody in the third world for starters, and probably a fair number of people in the former eastblock countries, especially students. In the 'developed' world probably fewer but it would not surprise me if there are thousands of people in a situation where a free server would just give them the leg up they need to get to 'ramen profitable'.