What Are You Doing Right Now
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@scottalanmiller Yep, it's something bundled with the Lumia 640 and 640 XL... not that you should ever buy a phone for an MS Office subscription. I'm happy with 2010 but hey, it's free
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Oh, interesting.
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What subscription did it include?
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@thecreativeone91
Not gonna lie still have my C@C (Whatever its $100 I wanna see where the company goes) not gonna lie it seems to have gotten much better, I just use to it f**k around nothing critical at all, currently got 3 2008r2's running to install a DAG (for testing)
Honestly its something I could do at home or at work but whatever, $100 isnt gonna kill me -
It probably has gotten better. Having all of their customers flee means that their load has gone way down.
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@Sparkum said:
@thecreativeone91
Not gonna lie still have my C@C (Whatever its $100 I wanna see where the company goes) not gonna lie it seems to have gotten much better, I just use to it f**k around nothing critical at all, currently got 3 2008r2's running to install a DAG (for testing)
Honestly its something I could do at home or at work but whatever, $100 isnt gonna kill meI've got mine too, it was $35 not worried about that. It seems to be working alright. I barely touch it though.
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I alone shut down a dozen systems. No telling how many were shut down just from this community alone. And there isn't anyone on Twitter that wasn't asking for their money back. Even those that kept their systems seem to not use them. As people flee the platform, it should perform better for those that remain.
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That's their market - people who buy them and forget them. They don't want those of us who were really using them, we cost them money. Idle systems are their bread and butter.
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@scottalanmiller said:
It probably has gotten better. Having all of their customers flee means that their load has gone way down.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was less than 100 there now. Heck I could get a home setup to handle 100 instances without any failover.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
It probably has gotten better. Having all of their customers flee means that their load has gone way down.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was less than 100 there now. Heck I could get a home setup to handle 100 instances without any failover.
Easily. I've got lab systems that could do that easily.
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I was talking to one of their techs the other day, they are actually opening a new datacenter in 6-8 months so they are still growing
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@Sparkum said:
I was talking to one of their techs the other day, they are actually opening a new datacenter in 6-8 months so they are still growing
Well, there are some things to take into consideration:
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They lie through their teeth and you can't trust anything that they say. This is known. They are a company without integrity and no ethics. They've been caught lying over and over again. So that they said this means literally nothing.
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They don't have datacenters as it is, which supports the lying bit. They are a child company of a parent that claims to be a datacenter company. They just rent some space out of their sponsor's facility. CloudatCost does not open datacenters, they just put a server or two into facilities that they have access to. Doesn't mean that they have money or are growing.
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They claimed this before the poo hit the fan. They visibly shrank and lost pretty much all customers from every visible channel all at once (ML, SW, Twitter, etc.) That they were growing and that they are growing are very different things.
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They claim redundant datacenters but they claimed redundant WAN links too. That their parent "owns" a datacenter is enough for them to claim to "have opened one." That they will put servers into it or use that new datacenter would not be part of that claim.
The takeaway that they are growing from the statement that they made doesn't make sense. I can easily open a new datacenter for use by my house, but it doesn't mean that my house is growing, even if I was telling the truth about opening a new datacenter.
CloudatCost "opening a new datacenter" is no different than me deciding that I should colocate a second server for my home lab. They just colocate with others.
I'm not saying that they can't be growing, only that their track record suggests otherwise and nothing in the statement that they made, given what we know about their statements in the past, suggests that they are.
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@scottalanmiller
Ya for sure, I'm not defending or attacking the company, just willing to gamble $100 to see where the company goes.
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@Sparkum said:
@scottalanmiller
Ya for sure, I'm not defending or attacking the company, just willing to gamble $100 to see where the company goes.
Definitely spent more money on dumber things beforeI'm with you. It's very little money and quite interesting. For me, a company that is unethical is a no go. It cost me a lot more than the cost of the systems to try to use them. It cost a ton of my time just to have everything thrown away and not work. We put the cost to use their $100 systems in the many thousands of dollars. And, more importantly, we can't trust them. We can't trust them not to steal our data, not to do really dangerous or unethical things. It's not like Google or Microsoft who have both professional and financial reasons to generally do really good things, even when they have access to your data. The might do something you don't like, but they aren't going to do anything crazy. They have a LOT on the line.
But C@C is like a cornered animal that hates you. They have no incentive to not steal your data and run away. They have nothing to lose. They have no professional ethics and no financial stability. Their literally have their backs to the wall and your data might be what lets them buy their parachute as they try to escape.
To me, it's not worth even $1 to test them, because the parts that I know about them mean that nothing they ever do could ever make them a viable company to work with. And since they only make an "as a service" platform, that rules everything they do out completely. Nothing really left to test.
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The GOG Summer Sale just stated!!! I am doomed!
First game purchased....
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Um That's a first.. through ebay. But, NO!
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@scottalanmiller said:
What subscription did it include?
Office 365 Personal, so it's a single user license.
It does come with Skype credit every month. That will be interesting to try out. -
Morning to all!
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Good morning. Getting ready to go to the Munch Museum!
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Off to work over at my Assistants this morning for a bit. Face to face meetings a nice once in awhile.
