[clug-talk] Online (Linux) PC?

[Dana Harding]

> Hmm, interesting.  I have not been looking for a VPS for a while,
> since I don't think I can justify it for my purposes (personal web
> page, and the odd other task.)

I have mine for self-educational and tinkering purposes more than anything 
else,  other than that the economics don't really balance.
As soon as I'm not having fun anymore,  it'll be time to move everything 
over to a hosting provider and pull the plugs.

> Still, I think it's neat to be marketing a VPS as an "Online PC" for
> regular users.

The "Online PC" concept is definitely a neat marketing approach.
Maybe those are the right magic words for the concept to start taking off in 
the small/medium business world in scenarios where the workers can work away 
from the office.   Kind of like a roaming profile, except that it actually 
works.
Although, depending on how smoothly they work - something like that might 
end up just being used as an internet-side file cache (slash offsite backup) 
so you can upload files you need to work on ahead of time instead of getting 
home and waiting while pulling them over a VPN through a 1Mbps uplink.