[plug] hosting

[Bret Busby]

On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Fred Janon wrote:

> Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:36:03 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Fred Janon <fjanon at yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: plug at plug.org.au
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] hosting
> 
> Does Amazon have data centers in Australia or does all the traffic have to hop to the US?
>
> Thanks
>
> Fred
>
> --- On Mon, 6/22/09, Keith Bawden <keith at bawdo.com> wrote:
>
> From: Keith Bawden <keith at bawdo.com>
> Subject: Re: [plug] hosting
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Date: Monday, June 22, 2009, 9:01 PM
>
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 15:33, Gregory
> Orange<gregory.orange at rpsmetocean.com> wrote:
>> After a few months, we'd like to at least consider other hosting, to make
>> sure we're getting a reasonable deal. So, my question - can you give me an
>> idea of hosting providers that are worth their salt, and how much we should
>> expect to pay to host a web shop. The business is for-profit, but hardly any
>> (and no income for the owners) - maybe in time it will grow. I don't know
>> where it should be hosted, but all of the customers are in Western
>> Australia, perhaps one day there will be other Australian customers.
>>
>
> <disclaimer>I Work for Amazon</disclaimer>
>
> Have you considered AWS?
>
> http://aws.amazon.com/
>
> Regards, Keith
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And, of course, with Amazon being USA based, it (and all of the web 
sites that it hosts) will be subject to the USA Patriot Act, under 
which, all transactions and activity has to be reported to the USA 
government, on demand, so, any business web site hosted by Amazon, will 
have no client confidentiality, or any other kind of confidentiality, as 
the USA government will know whatever it wants, and, all such web sites 
and transactions conducted via such web sites, will be subject to USA 
federal law, and, probably also to the law of the particular USA state 
in which the web site(s) will be hosted. It could be great fun, for any 
Australian small business being required to travel to the USA, to 
participate in any court action that might occur from having a business 
web site hosted by a USA business.

How many hundreds of millions of dollars, did you say that the small 
Australian business, has in reserve?

--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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"So once you do know what the question actually is,
  you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
   Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
   "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
   A Trilogy In Four Parts",
   written by Douglas Adams,
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