For a bit of fun and to get some of the LEB spirit back I thought I would throw out a creative competition.
What is on offer to the winner.
3 x VPS to work with
All 128MB
All 5GB Disk
All 1 x IP4
All in different DC's (UK/NL/USA)
What is required.
Your creative ideas on what they can be used for, anything goes as long as it meets the following criteria.
1) Must be scalable
2) Must be open source
3) Must either provide the wider community with a service or made easily deployable by others
4) All 3 servers must interact in some way that is part of the underlying idea
You don't need to go in to great detail on your idea, you just need to be able to have a good go at it. if you yourself are not able to deliver the idea but think you have a great one, then put it up anyway, someone that is capable might take it up and share the credit/prize with you.
Re inventing the wheel is not always a bad thing, but direct copies of other things will not be considered unless they have real added value or your version replicates a current commercial closed source idea.
I would also invite other providers to take part by also donating small VPS's to the competition.
The winner will be either the best idea by the 10th Jan, or the first one that is obviously an excellent idea, I will be the judge along with any other hosts that want to give a little LEB spirit back to the community.
The winner will have 14 days to deliver with updates in the thread at least every 3 days, they will then either get to keep the servers or choose 1 location for a 256MB VPS with 15GB disk free for 1 year. (Split in 2 if you have the idea and someone else delivers it)
Look forward to your ideas, anything considered no matter how small.
Anthony.