The company I work for hosts on another very large company (that had a lot of downtime for another reason a few years back), on dedicated servers. Believe me when I say we have as many problems with them. So far, there have been no problems for us using Amazon. I think it depends on your needs. Multiple redundancy is probably a better solution, but nothing is perfect yet.

I picked up the glasses at the weekend and tried them out on the official colorcode 3-d website. The effect works, but the colour is bizarre, as the right eye only sees blue. I tried boosting the contrast and saturation, which does help a bit, but still not brilliant. I don't think it will catch on.

I built an arcade machine in partnership with my uncle and would gladly help out tellling you what you NEED to get going. We are in the Lanarkshire area of the UK, so some of our suppliers are local. 19mm MDF boards for the sides of the machine and an offcut for the footplate x 2 (local supplier) 9mm MDF boards for facings and 'Bezel Board' 21'' Hantarex Polo monitor - around £270 inc VAT and delivery 3.2mm slot cutter for your router (this cuts the groove to fit your t-molding trim round the machine) - bought from Mackays of Cambridge A roll of t-molding - try a shopfitter (we bought ours from Dominic Diamond - the gamesmaster presenter's dad!) A roll of rubber mat - (Machine mart) A couple of lengths of 2x4 to make braces 'Special Effect' paint (Bought from Scotpaint in Airdrie) Controls from Ultimarc (we didn't use a coin box) 12x Red buttons - (use a 28-32mm hole cutter to mount) 1x 1p button 1x 2p button 2x yellow button (coin insert) 2x T-stick (has 4 way / 8 way switch - useful for pacman) I-pac 2 PS/2 Arcade VGA breakout cable From Maplin: Push button with LED to use to turn the computer on and off - front mount this Tons of coloured wire (we used 2 colours - one for earth and one for live) You could also get 2 5v LED's to attach to the I-pac and shove up the 1p and 2p start buttons to make them flash when you 'insert a coin', but this is optional since it doesn't work for all games. For the sound, we used a set of Piezo speakers bought from a car parts store. These already had a nice speaker cover with a lip, and a cylinder design for easy mounting. We powered these with a speaker set from Creative which had a detachable volume control and subwoofer. Attach the volume control to the underside of the control panel. We used a sheet of aluminium for the control panel top to give it a nice finish. I think the last things were a strip light to go behind the marquee, and the marquee itself. I designed the marquee in photoshop and sent it to a friend who is a professional sign maker. He mounted the design onto white Foamex which acted as a diffuser. If I could offer one piece of advice: don't hunt around for a decent piece of Perspex to go in front of the screen. Instead, scribe the outline of the screen onto 9mm (or even 6mm if it's easier) MDF and cut out a snug fit to place around the screen. If needs be, fill any gaps BEHIND the screen with heat resistant black filler. Oh, and one more thing. Make sure you put heat vents on it at the back, these things get hot. All in all, it cost about £500 to make (not including the tools to do it). I might draw up some plans properly and give a materials list - this arcade machine is a perfect size for a house. Hope some of this helps!