djchen

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1. 31.▲
   by djchen 13y ago

   They mention one person's cost for a PV system with batteries in the article, it was $14,800. (Look for "Hayashi bought a system with batteries"). It also states the buyer will be able to recoup his upfront cost in 2 years th
2. 32.▲
   by djchen 13y ago

   People also need to vote with their dollars. I understand thats only part of it but its a necessary part. Look at what T-Mobile has done for wireless plans, if more people switched to them for example, I'm sure AT&T/VZW/S
3. 33.▲
   by djchen 13y ago

   Linode, DigitalOcean, etc
4. 34.▲
   by djchen 13y ago

   I was thinking more like FreeBSD jails. Containers can't change the system clock.
5. 35.▲
   by djchen 13y ago

   Yeah, thats doubtful but you can run your own on a VPS (OpenVPN and DD-WRT router) and can push several hundred mbps no problem and probably closer to 500mbps; assuming the VPS is connected via gigabit.
6. 36.▲
   by djchen 13y ago

   I highly doubt DO oversells RAM or HDD, though yeah overselling is so easy these days. You can oversell RAM and HDD even with KVM. RAM is the easiest with the virtio_balloon driver.
7. 37.▲
   by djchen 13y ago

   DigitalOcean (DO) is VC funded so its very different from some "hoster" started by some guy with rented server(s). DO can grow really quickly due to that funding which you need to achieve economies of scale. The biz has thin margi