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Its amazing how small changes like these can cause a seachange in power consumption real difference in our collective future. This change alone could be a serious bear market for power companies! This, mixed with generally growing renewable means a greener planet may be closer than we think... most data assume constant consumption/or growth with population.

Well, If its in the tens of thousands of dollars ($10,000) for a .25 cent charge, this seems like alot of risk to handle in house. Ie at that size 1 in 40000 transactions could be fraud and they would be breaking even on the .25 cent charges, assuming there is no overhead to running this business.

I work @ a competitor Atlantic.Net (www.atlantic.net/cloud - Free Trial message me for extra free credits) but I think the market is segmenting between Digital Ocean which is very aggressively priced, and Linode which is trying to throw in more features and pack alot of value at a higher price point.

Interestingly, the largest providers AWS + Rackspace provide no free bandwidth, while Linode not only included it, but increased it significantly. Will these providers push the bigger guys to start offering free bandwidth which is a significant cost of the product [well, if its used].

Or, people might be more careful what they spend on, ie things that could provide more utility than the rate at which bitcoins would appreciate.

Since theoretically there is a fixed number of bitcoins, and once lost they can't be retrieved, bitcoins should theoretically be worth infinity when the last one is finally lost.

Orlando, Fl - Atlantic.Net Network/Linux Engineers http://www.atlantic.net/About-Us/career-opportunities.html

we have seen the same things mentioned in this article. What happens to FB when the rest of the world wakes up.

Since there are all VPS users here, what do you think is the best way to market a VPS product.. or rather, how did you end up becoming a Lin

Since there are all VPS users here, what do you think is the best way to market a VPS product.. or rather, how did you end up becoming a Linode customer?

Dont forget www.atlantic.net/cloud fast io competitive price per sec billing API etc

Very nice article, worth reading.

Hi, I'm with Atlantic.Net cloud so I speak with startups quite frequently.

In terms of dialing up risk, I think you're looking @ it backwards. You have a finite life, which means you are slowly eroding to zero. You have nothing to lose by taking risk because you are already eroding towards zero.

Even worse, the remaining days you have left are a greater percentage of the remaining days in totality of your existence, so therefore each day is eroding FASTER than the previous one.

So, relatively speaking, you should be increasing risk over time in any case because the rate at which you are eroding is accelerating.

Basically, rather than looking @ risk as what you have to lose, really its about what you have to gain. There isn't any true risk because the end game is the same.

Here is the official release of the price drop:

http://www.atlantic.net/Press-Releases-for-2012/atlanticnet-...

About 15% less for Linux, closer to 17% for Windows on hourly rates.

Orlando, FL: Network Engineers/System Software Developers

Valley Area: Liason to promote our cloud to local business, attend meet ups:

Pre-Req: Hard Sciences background, Experience working in a service provider environment, natural intelligence and curiousity.

Atlantic.Net (http://www.atlantic.net) is a 19 year old service provider that has pivoted several times with our latest product being cloud (www.atlantic.net/cloud).

We are actively developing this with new features that aren't available anywhere else.

Network Engineer: Routing/Switching, Cisco, extensive experience in debugging and conceptually designing WANs/scalable LANs.

System Developer: Experience writing in C, /bin/sh, perl, sed/awk anything to scalably get things done in as clean a way as possible balanced by actually having to get things done.

Liason: Technical background, great personality and ability to communicate with technical people in a non salesdroid way. Help build our relationships with the community and promote us to local businesses that can take advantage of our product, plus keep contact with existing customers there. May require travel.

If interest, mail me direct mp at atlantic.net

FB has 2.7B shares outstanding, yahoo and other sites have it wrong.

Maybe someone on HN can invent something that shocks you when you type the wrong command instead! Funny post, and GTI's had great mileage

Really cool, thanks for sharing.

This is a ridiculous article. Its obvious the world is becoming more competitive (ie there are no modern day John Rockefellers adjusted for inflation). What Apple has accomplished is amazing, and I'm not even an Apple fanboy. Credit where credit is due, and Apple hasn't topped -- yet!

If you're the top market capitalization company, you're doing something right (especially from where Apple came from). Its like winning gold and saying well you didn't beat the world record so you're gold doesn't count.

I'm with Atlantic.net cloud [AWS competitor, full disclosure]; the price point for storage is great but retrieval seems expensive -- perhaps retrieval is very rare its offset by the savings on the storage. I know you can mail in drives for storage, can you have them mail you drives for retrieval? (for Glacier specifically)

Also, prior comments made mention they were using some sort of robotic tape devices, but according to this blog:

http://www.zdnet.com/amazon-launches-glacier-cloud-storage-h...

Its using "commodity hardware components". So, thats why I thought maybe they are loss-leadering on the storage and making up on the retrieval prices?

Its definately a interesting product and I love how there's a reason they called it Glacier. AMZN is a wild boar going after everyone!