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Sep 08, 2014

AWS costs vs home server

I am looking to decide whether to use AWS for my F5 needs (home use and learning) as opposed to upgrading my home ESX server. Both would just be using Lab license and would need to work in HA (not s...
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Sep 10, 2014

aye, I had read more about AWS and the lack of a connection to the serial port is a serious short coming. I have had issues in the past where the only way to fix a box was via the serial port so I wouldn't want to trust my production traffic to something that didn't give this ability.