One of the reason is a legacy systems. Some companies are too tied up to old custom made systems built on old software and hardware virtually not convertible to cloud. You will be surprised but there are big corporation still using AS400 and not planning to switch anytime soon. If you heard in recent news US unemployment system was still built on COBOL... In 2020...
Another reason is a cost. I love AWS! Its fantastic to be able to create and launch servers or the whole farm of servers in the matter of minutes! And ability to convert physical servers to virtual and upload them to the cloud is breathtaking! But my monthly bill started at $300 and grew to $18K per month in less than 3 years. And that was for just a few virtual servers with Windows OS and SQL. My company realized that we can have a state of the art datacenter with WmWare and SAN on premises for the fraction of that price. Put second one on the other coast (one of our other offices) and you have your own cloud with better ping and six digits figure saving a year.
For the last I would name vendor lock. With vSphere its very easy to move your virtual servers between AWS, Azure and Google (assuming you can afford all 3 and licensing cost of WmWare) but have you ever tried to "download" your server back to premise? It's virtually impossible or made so hard by cloud players trying to keep you up they're in the clouds.
With all said I read that Netflix (I believe its Netflix) saving hundreds of millions dollars per year by using Amazon instead of its own servers. I also read somewhere that Dropbox moved away from AWS...
you can bridge network cards to double your connection speed. You can connect to 2 different networks (load balancing or 2 different Internet Server Providers). You can run multiple virtual machines on your mac and separate traffic instead of putting all into one adapter. Multiple LAN is a norm now, especially if you in IT.
Your impression is correct. I don't think Russia continue the race anymore. Back Soviet time they were even ahead of the World in some breakthrough - ternary computing instead of binary and so on....
UNAS/UNIX should be translated as "in here/out there" not "ours/theirs". Home Computer in Russian will never be BK, it will be DK. Other than that I have some deja vu....
don't know... their website kinda said that you have to purchase credit before you can bet on a job and list a reason for it. they also have a toll free number you can call with any questions next to email. I would say call them first and grill on every details. And if you feel its kinda fishy then abandon them completely...
There are others and some of them already established their trust. Take a look at the following review, its a little bit old, but still relevant: http://smallbiztrends.com/2011/09/11-freelancer-virtual-assi...
Good luck!
