Comments on: Is a Home Server a Bad Idea? http://techonabudget.com/blog/2008/07/16/is-a-home-server-a-bad-idea/ TechOnABudget: Tech Geeks on a Budget Lifestyle Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:36:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: spdean http://techonabudget.com/blog/2008/07/16/is-a-home-server-a-bad-idea/comment-page-1/#comment-4 spdean Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:22:40 +0000 http://techonabudget.com/blog/?p=6#comment-4 ah... I see you're filtering HTML. That should be less than 200 GB in the parenthesis above. ah… I see you’re filtering HTML. That should be less than 200 GB in the parenthesis above.

]]> By: spdean http://techonabudget.com/blog/2008/07/16/is-a-home-server-a-bad-idea/comment-page-1/#comment-3 spdean Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:21:38 +0000 http://techonabudget.com/blog/?p=6#comment-3 It seems that if you don't have much data to store ( 200 GB then you're going to start getting into a pricey range. Over time it's going to cost more for the storage on S3 than owning the NAS or Server and electricity. At least that's the way it seems to me. I think you may also have to consider how much you use the data. If you have a lot of I/O then with S3 you're going to run into a lot of bandwidth charges. In the end I don't think that there's a one size fits all solution. Everybody has to decide what works best for them. It seems that if you don’t have much data to store ( 200 GB then you’re going to start getting into a pricey range. Over time it’s going to cost more for the storage on S3 than owning the NAS or Server and electricity. At least that’s the way it seems to me.

I think you may also have to consider how much you use the data. If you have a lot of I/O then with S3 you’re going to run into a lot of bandwidth charges. In the end I don’t think that there’s a one size fits all solution. Everybody has to decide what works best for them.

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