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could you share the amazon link btw.

I just wondered... is there anyone using one of these cheap windows tablets as a home server? I found one for £40 on amazon, with the z3735f, 2gb ram, usb otg. Seems like it could be a pretty useful h

Why not use Amazon ec2, they offer persistent block storage (so you can power down/up start/stop billing) and 10gigabit port instances.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1593271867?ie=UTF8&tag=prgmrcom-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1593271867

As a consumer I want to see who & what I am dealing with. For small companies (i.e. not Amazon or Digital Ocean) first things would be basics like address, company number etc. Without these

I wasn't going to comment on this until you suggested that Amazon also does not disclose information on whether they use RAID. I just didn't want the readers to be misinformed and think that none-disc

If one chooses to provision their vm using the instance storage backend. Then amazon explicitly states the following:

See: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/Storage.html which explains at the top level relationships between the amazon instance and its varies backend storage infrastructures.

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http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/raid-config.html

Also, Amazon AWS haven't disclosed whether they're using RAID.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00LULV4V2/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=10XAKCZGIJLTS&coliid=I3IKR1A1181YMQ&psc=1

Looking at the PaaS (Platform as a Service) market, I am finding only two options: Google App Engine and to some extend Amazon AWS.

@TarZZ92 - Amazon seems to think WD20NPVX is between $128-148 right now. So my guestimate was a lot closer than yours. But if you can get them for $80 then please post a link, if its a legitimate supp

I know of a lot of business users using them as an alternative to Amazon, for many the redundancy offered by Amazon is an overkill and the reliability of DigitalOcean is sufficient.

Acceptable payment options are PayPal, Credit Card via PayPal, Amazon Simple Pay, BitCoin, Check/Money Order (US Funds drawn on US Bank)

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Just my two cents but what about changing that images to some offload storage like RunAbove Storage or Amazon S3? Still super fast and you don't pay a lot for bandwidth.

You can have an have an 1GB Win 2012 Vps for free for a year @AWS(amazon web services)