Initially I saw a few blog posts from Stuart Langridge about CouchDb on the desktop and I just thought:
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Until a few weeks ago my personal server was with a "little" company called UK2.net. After the monthly prices got hiked again for a 3 year old Pentium D box, I decided that it was time to move on.