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I think the way to go is a mix of the two. It is covenient for companies to get guaranteed money in advance. As for customer it's way cheaper to start with usage based model. This is because a lot of users are underusing their services.

This at least is the case in hosting industry where overscheduling is a big thing.

So best scenario for customer would be a pay per usage for low usage and subscription for moderate to high usage. At least this is what AWS is doing and I believe this is fair for both bussiness and customer

Here in Lithuania we have like 90% of plastic bottles have a deposit logo on them, pretty much all of the soda, beer, water, milk bottles are recycled. Most of the non recycleable bottles are from outside of EU brands, and those are generally more expensive. Collection points are also automated, where you put them on conveyer kind of belt ant it uses OCR to detect if the bottle can be recycled. Those collection points are attached to a store and you get a credit in associated store which can be used to either buy groceries or jus get your money in cash.

But if your service was down for more than what it takes to downscale to minimum scaling back up is not that big of an issue. It was down anyways. Also 24/7 instances exist for a reason, autoscaling is there to handle spikes, not a normal traffic.

For anyone looking for cheapest SBC. Best I've found was Orange pi zero at $6.99 for 256mb version. That includes wireless wifi onboard.

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You can have a look at xeon e5-2670 v2 cpus, they're relatively cheap, around $200 and have 8c/16t so in a double cpu configuration you could have 64 cores with only 4 machines.

If it's a matter of life or death why didn't they have some sort of battery backup. It shouldn't need that much power. Or even additional generator.

As well as having moden version as a backup would be viable option. Article seems to make it more dramatic than it should be.

Why would you really need physical machines for linux and windows, you can always virtualize clients and run dual boot mac/windows or single thinkpad with win/linux dual boot.

If budget is tight used servers are great value, for example del R710 is cheap with plenty of horsepower. Downside being space and sound.

Most of the designed emails have images which will be blocked by the client(thunderbird), which looks really horrible. So I will have to be very interested to actually allow images to be downloaded.

As I understand it he disabled asserts in places which would certainly fail, like doing system stuff, modifying system state and such, but not actual relevant parts.

You can always have multiple VM's with gpu passthrough, so it's almost like dual boot kind of setup, but you can still run other things on the host. It works pretty well for me, only downside being that you're limited to single VM running at the time.

I'm recently setup Gitlab for my personal projects, import from bitbucket was a breeze.

I've used omnibus installer and it was almost painless, only a couple of issues because of LXC limits.

My only concern is resource usage, it does take at least 2Gb memory, are there any options to tweak it?

> I am assuming that having RAM and CPU (and other functions such as GPU or other hardware accelerators)

We already have RAM(cache) and GPU(integrated graphics) on the same die. But that doesn't work as a replacement for professional/gaming graphical workloads.

That's one of the reasons I love arch, it has AUR. Don't like packaging, just create your own.

> Really? Then what about this poor sap who had the misfortune of releasing one buggy minor version

Can't you do a minor do a minor version upgrade? Even the stable distros do updates all the time, just nothing major.

Yes they can, there is nothing preventing them creating the package. But it shouldn't be a primary way of installing package. If you really need bleeding edge for development you can build it yourself.