Ask HN: unix home in the cloud?

Re:Ask HN: unix home in the cloud? by ddrager on Friday December 03, 2010 @05:57AM (#1965400)

All of those are clouds, not really meant as an always-on home in the cloud (or at least an expensive option). I'll assume you are looking for low-budget since you mentioned "Academic project."

What you are looking for is probably a VPS (can be had for < $10/month at many, many places) or simply setting up an old computer on your home connection. Even if you have a static IP, use DynDNS or similar service to get a static address to connect to.

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Re:Ask HN: unix home in the cloud? by strayer on Friday December 03, 2010 @07:02AM (#1965517)

Yes, something like the idea of a Virtual Private Server is what I was looking for, thanks.

I wonder what's people's experience for single-user, private daily use.

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Re:Ask HN: unix home in the cloud? by retroafroman on Friday December 03, 2010 @09:36AM (#1965918)

I have a Linux VPS I use everyday, mostly just privately. It's very handy as a way to get around the corporate network blocked sites, and I can use it if I feel the Wifi network I'm on is sketchy to try and encrypt my traffic. Mine is only 3 bucks a month and that's easily worth it to me. Lowendbox.com has good deals pop up all the time. It's no speed demon, but it works for all I do with it.

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Re:Ask HN: unix home in the cloud? by bobf on Friday December 03, 2010 @03:27PM (#1967330)

Lowendbox.com is a great way to get cheap VPS service, and anything <$10/mo is hard to complain too harshly about.. but my caveat to using companies from there is to make sure you have decent backups, handle email/DNS somewhere other than your VPS, and try not to care too much about 100% uptime :)

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Re:Ask HN: unix home in the cloud? by rubinelli on Friday December 03, 2010 @04:43PM (#1967547)

I just use Google Apps for Domains for email. For domains, GoDaddy is decent, but I prefer Namecheap.

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