The biggest issue I see with Google is that they like to tease the waters with these services, things like the recently retired Google Reader, they will put it out there, decide that they are not getting enough interest and then retire it. Google needs to look at what they do and keep doing it well, not trying to target every aspect of the market. Personally I would FAR prefer to put my data into Evernote, as I know they will hang around, Google Keep... meh we will see how long until it goes. The things google innovate on, THEY hang around, the things that Google follow on... tend to get flushed after a while. Just my 2c.

Hi Adumonit,
Do you specifically have a need to host it locally? I live in Australia and like you server hosting costs here are *prohibitive*. Hence I do all my hosting in the United States where you can rent servers from any number of providers for $60USD a month and up, they manage all the hardware and stuff for you (and depending on how much you are willing to pay a month) can even manage the software for you as well (to a certain degree).

The large benefit of this is that you wouldn't have a massive initial outlay for hardware costs and the great thing is you can start out small and if you need to in 12 months time move to larger hardware to support the growth.

As I said this only depends on if you actually have a specific business need to host locally.

As far as how to install all those, I personally am a fan of cPanel, in theory it might be overkill for what you are looking for but you can usually get it on rented dedicated servers and it will happily handle the install of apache, php, (python can be added easily) and myqsl. The massive benefit here would be it will also manage *upgrades* to those packages minimising admin work while you are starting up.

When you kick off and have enough resources to warrant it then you could move to a custom managed/tuned install of each so that you can optimise them.

Just my thoughts. Stuart

Interestingly it looks like (for once) us Aussies were the first to get this, about 6(ish) months ago Foxtel started broadcasting via streaming channels to the XBox 360. I will admit it is not a full featured service but it is a really good start. I will be curious to see how it plays out overseas to see if you get full featured (such as pausing, recording etc) as of course there are technical limitations that have to be overcome there. Stuart

Hi All, I may have figured out a way to *recover* from the crash after being very frustrated finding the GPU crashing every morning. http://slashdot.org/submission/1505352/Possible-workaround-for-Macbook-2011-Issues Curious if this works for others Stuart