Category: Internet

A question on OnStartup Answers made me think a bit about web content and the information it conveys.The original poster asked whether video or audio/podcasts would be a more effective way to attract readers. It might seem that in today’s web, video is becoming the dominant form of content. If we’re looking at bandwidth consumption,…

Warning: strong cloud advocacy ahead. With the recent Amazon EC2 outage, many Internet companies such as the walled garden Quora and even one of our competitors remained offline for 24 hours or more. Amazon does not seem to have fully recovered yet, after almost 48 hours, which is a bit disappointing. I have been barely…

Lately I felt the need to have all my 60 GB of personal data stored in the cloud, mostly because maintaining a backup plan is a pain. Besides, I’m using an oldish PC with a dual-core processor, 4GB of RAM Windows Server 2008 as NAS, which is a bit overkill and wastes a lot of…

So everyone is talking about cloud computing. Too bad most of them don’t understand what it is, how it works, the benefits and pitfalls. Let’s make it clear: with cloud I mean some kind of service or application that runs outside your network, is multi-tenant and scalable, and that you access over the Internet, ideally…