Informal survey

Mike McGrath mmcgrath at redhat.com
Mon Nov 24 17:27:26 UTC 2008


On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> >
> >> On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com> wrote:
> >> > Hey guys, completely voluntary but I thought I'd ask because I'm curious
> >> >
> >> > For personal use, how many of you use something like linode or slicehost
> >> > or an individual provider?
> >> >
> >> > If you do use a provider which one is it?
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > For me, I do use one and I use slicehost.
> >>
> >> For those who are out of touch with this whole "new Internet thing"
> >> what do you use these sites for?
> >>
> >
> > slicehost provides me a dedicated virtual guest.  Not much ram but I use
> > it to host my wife's website, zodbot (go zodbot go!) and a screen + irssi
> > session where all my irc stuff happens.
>
> Ahhh. I am so used to doing that from my basement.. kids these days.
>

Comcast[1] makes this difficult to do where I live now.

	-Mike

[1] If you work for comcast, you do not work for a company that stands for
good.




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