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chrischen on Sept 7, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Replacing a Development VPS with Linux on OSX

If you run a VM, then your dev system is portable. You can put it in dropbox, or on a flash drive.

threedaymonk on Sept 7, 2011 [–]

If you can realistically put a VM image in Dropbox, then I want to live where you live. Where I am (London), that kind of bandwidth is scarce and costly.

chrischen on Sept 8, 2011 | [–]

You can put a copy of it there and it only has to happen once. Dropbox has resumable uploading.

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