Ever wondered why the cloud hosting price is as high as it is? Having just a few companies control the Internet is at odds with your rights. And it’s at odds with your wallet. We’ve seen centralization happening with regard to the Internet since the turn of the century. Everyone rents their Internet server capacity […]
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We made it! Thanks to all of you we surpassed our funding goal and are now launching a referral program as a big Thank You! Refer antsle to your friends & family and receive 10% on all new purchases! It’s simple: All you have to do is share the campaign link via social media, email etc. and […]
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We are beyond excited to open the doors for all of you waiting to get your hands on your own Antsle! A few hours ago we officially launched our crowdfunding campaign on IndieGoGo. The next good 40 days will be very exciting and it’s your chance to get an Antsle at the absolute lowest price you will […]
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Hillary Clinton did it. She ran, maybe still runs, at least one Internet-connected home server. Why did she do it? Here’s my – hopefully “educated” – guess: She wanted to be free, independent and autonomous. So should you, too, run your own server? What would be the pros and cons? Running one of the Internet’s […]
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There was that term again: Safe Harbor… I read it in the press a lot in November 2015, when the EU ruled that the US cannot be considered a safe harbor when sending data across the big pond. OK, I thought, so the US is not a safe harbor for data coming from the EU. Then […]
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A major milestone for Antsle is approaching. We will go live with our campaign on IndieGoGo on December 15, 2015. More info about Antsle at https://antsle.com. We’ll keep you posted about our future progress and about the campaign. Please sign up for our newsletter to be among the first people to know: https://antsle.com/newsletter-sign-up/
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Short answer: There is no difference. For both your home and your server, you want to own, not rent. Long answer: Well, not all situations are equal, and there are definitely cases where renting makes sense, for homes as well as for servers. When I say servers here I’m referring to the computers that make […]
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I can see your face in front of my eyes. “What, Bernie?” you’re yelling at me, “the Internet a modern form of slavery? I’d have expected a few things that you might come up with as the modern form of slavery, but the Internet? It brought us so much freedom!” And you’re right. Indeed, the […]
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I’ve tried building a home server many times in the past few years. Here are my top seven mistakes for you to learn from: Building a Home Server No 1: Fans Fans are just a no-go in your home. You want the server connected to your router with a LAN cable, not via WiFi. That means […]
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We’re obsessed with ever smarter personal devices. Mobile, small, smart. That’s the trend. Few people ever talk about servers. At least if they’re not considered geeks. How will that trend towards ever smaller mobile devices look like, extrapolated over the next 15 years? Will all capacity – computational, storage, communications – be handled by our “client” […]
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