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True story, of how I explained why the hosting company I use for this site, digital.forest, was the best choice for some folks, in a way that everyone in the room understood:
"They get their power from gravity, and their cooling air from the outside. You have to burn stuff to get the former for your servers, and then burn more stuff to cool the air for those same servers. Burning stuff is way cool, but gravity and the outside are more reliable and a hell of a lot cheaper than fire and freon."
You could see the light go on in their eyes in a way that long talks about bandwidth and the rest had not triggered.
I still giggle about that every so often, and it's a saying I've often since repeated. Still works well.
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Posted by John C. Welch at 23:31 | Permalink
©2003-until I'm fucking dead and then some. you steal my shit, and I will fuck with you like you were a lonely shepherd's slowest sheep.
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