luca-giovanni

Sadly you are so right! Internet nowadays is a utility though so I do think it is rude making people pay for it.

My point was that the first hit on the article is on Twitter and was from CloudSigma. So I'm guessing the URL was copy pasted from there. Looking at jclouds account, submissions do generally come from CloudSigma tweets but it seems to relate generally to wider things not that company. The residual value of a URL shortening isn't clear to do to the lengths you suggest. Your post gives more advertising than the submissions thus far ;-) The three submissions made by jclouds-fan seem to be of a high quality. The first relating to the same blog as this latest one so looks like a user with a narrow interest base!

I guess it gives the original sharer some feedback on the link otherwise they would never really know what interest it got? Looking at traffic I think the link was picked up off Twitter originally hence the URL shortener too.

I guess it probably isn't but in any case it isn't a robust discrimination method as this guy has shown ;-)

What if you just choose to change your user agent to something different because you prefer the experience? If you then get different offers as a result you can't be held liable.

It isn't!

Is it legal to charge people different rates for the same service on different devices? I would argue it certainly isn't moral.

Switching user agent is perfectly legal.

I do a lot of Ruby development. It would be nice to see them offer a XML or JSON API as well.

Dropbox wasn't the first such product and you can argue better ones exist out there. What they have done is make a product with little or no friction to get up and running across multiple devices. That is the power of their product. It is super easy to use and difficult to break. A lot of companies can learn from their success and focus on user experience.

When you build a skyscraper, tell me what is the most important floor? The foundations. The founder is the foundation of the company. Above this foundation is often build billions of dollars of value.

Thanks for these excellent links. Getting a boulder to start rolling is the hardest part :-)

I think this comment is a little harsh. I'm a genuine cloud user interested in new offerings such as this one.

Agree with this article. AWS et al are serving a sub-set of the potential market. There are loads of developers such as myself that are crying out to have more control and flexibility in the cloud without a lot of the artificial vendor constraints imposed currently.

Really interesting to see that despite the hype Microsoft Azure really isn't seen as an attractive platform by either current or prospective IaaS cloud providers.

I very much enjoyed this post. Personally I don't particularly rate Gartner's 'Magic Quadrant' stuff but this non-Gartner blog post was a useful read for gaining a better understanding of what some of the real differences are between different IaaS providers.

+1

Definitely. I am a really high CPU user but don't need hardly any storage (I'm doing chess calculations). With bundled resources I always notice I am always over-specced on RAM and storage (in particular). Would be nice to have 'liquid' computing resources. As you say, nice post and nice to see someone doing that.