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		mikeash on Aug 16, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Joyent ending "lifetime" hosting accounts The idea that the hosting would get cheaper over time is interesting. If you assume that the ongoing costs follow a Moore's Law type exponential curve (which may not be true, but seems like a decent rough approximation) then the total cost to provide a constant service for an infinite time is finite!

TillE on Aug 16, 2012 [–]

Computation will always require some energy though, so the cost will approach some nonzero constant. Still infinite.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle

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