[Discuss] ZFS on Raspberry Pi?

[markw at mohawksoft.com (markw at mohawksoft.com)]

I agree with 100% The cloud is just someone else's computer. I was
referring to local machines and the use of VMs.

> markw at mohawksoft.com wrote:
>> I know this is a little bit off topic, but why would you set up a
>> machine
>> to be a server? Nobody does that any more.
>
> 1. I want to own my own data. Sometimes the government decides
>    to raid a data center and impound the machines that hold the
>    evidence. In a cloud environment, I don't know whether that's
>    the same machine I'm on or the one below it in the rack or
>    what.
>
> 2. When something goes down, I can assign the priority I place
>    on getting it back up. I will never be big enough for anyone
>    at Amazon to say "let's get Dan's service up first!".
>
> 3. If you size your service properly and have some reasonable
>    forecasting of growth, owning it yourself can be cheaper.
>
> 4. LAN speeds are still faster than WAN speeds, and more
>    consistent.
>
> 5. If I have to have hardware for some other reason, I might as
>    well have it do as much as possible. I can't hook up a mouse
>    and keyboard and monitor to the router. (Well, I can,
>    actually, but most people can't.)
>
> 6. Ease of troubleshooting. If I can't play the music from the
>    media fileserver on the laptop feeding the living room
>    stereo, I can debug that. If a Chromecast box stops feeding
>    music from the cloud, I can try poking the power switches and
>    grunting like a caveman.
>
> -dsr-
>