<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 6 March 2013 11:06, JLMS <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jjllmmss@googlemail.com" target="_blank">jjllmmss@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
What I don't understand is why people are running what seems like quite complicated set ups on their home networks.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Until recently, I did just that -- then I decided that since I was staying in lots of hotels and/or moving quite a lot, to get rid of that infrastructure and put it all on a server in the Docklands, with an HA backup at OVH. All my media (incl. iTunes purchases from the last 7 years etc) are stored on that server and mounted onto whichever device I want to use, be it my laptop, my TV box (a RasPi) or whatever. It's all puppetised too, so I can rebuild in minutes if I needed to (no, I never have).</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">With the wide availability of cheap hosting, which is actually intended for all those services people are talking about, I am curious as to why people insist to keep complicated set ups in house so to speak.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Because we're geeks and it's fun to tinker ;) Then again, Kimsufi servers are so cheap these days (as well as VMs) that it's not really worth it anymore unless you happen to have a huge amount of spare hardware.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Residential broadband is clearly intended for consumer mostly situations, if one has anything to serve it seems to me like residential broadband is the wrong solution (fixed IP addresses? Why? )<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Completely agree. Which is why 99% of times people arguing against CGNAT are wrong. The fact you can't forward a port to your VNC session at home is a silly argument. The real argument against CGNAT is a lot stronger -- though to be perfectly honest, once the yanks runs out of v4 space, v6 should take off a lot faster.</div>
<div><br></div><div>M </div></div>