What a shame... I am in the market for a home laser to replace the Epilog I use (at a makerspace), and this looks amazing. I won't be buying it if it's cloud-only, though. :(
Thanks :) I (OP, and blog author) have been doing Etsy for a little over a year now and try to blog about my process. I don't get a ton of sales (a few a month), but it's a fun side-project.
This is worse than PayPal for sellers with products over $5 (after shipping, tax). I wish they could've come up with better pricing. I would think most shops would be selling things over the $5 mark, but I can't say for sure.
Definitely agree! For me, the counter-point is that there's tremendous value in getting the Minimal Viable Product out the door, and iteratively improving it (the post in question was only the 2nd post after moving off a hosted blog). Projects that I want to be perfect before release usually don't make it out the door.
Hmm, didn't know you could throw ram at it without adding servers/bouncing the box. Very cool :)
Still, I think there's value in figuring out this stuff by investigating efficiency gains. If I was having to do real tricky stuff (which would probably be beyond my expertise) then the cloud would make more sense for me.
Do you use something automated to ensure things are cached? I use a different page caching plugin (W3 Total Cache), but it also puts the comment in the HTML.