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Want a Free Server for a year? Here’s how to do it.

Posted on June 16, 2012 by Percy Kwong

Amazon offers a free server for a year.  If you sign up with me, I’ll set up your server in your free tier for $25.00. Just sign up with me and you’ll get a free server to do whatever you’d like for a year. This can be a webserver, mail-server, VPN server, or any combination…

VOIP and Technology in the cloud, an 8 year review

Posted on June 3, 2012 by Percy Kwong

People always wonder whether or not the Cloud is a good idea. Early adopters of technology (like me) test these technologies long before they’re put into production. For me, as a CIO/CTO/Consultant, if it passes the Percy test, it goes on my list of recommendations. So what exactly is the “Percy Test”? It’s a long-term…

Buy my Book on Amazon and I’ll host your blog for free for a year.

Posted on May 30, 2012 by Percy Kwong

So, here’s the deal.  I want to help people.  So here’s what I’ve decided to do.  If you buy my book: Surviving the Economy and Making Money in a Down Economy A Guide to Coping with Unemployment and Finding New Opportunities I’ll host a non-commercial blog for you for a year.  Assuming you don’t abuse…

A truly free and unblocked VPN for one year

Posted on May 30, 2012 by Percy Kwong

Every VPN provider claims that they’re truly free and not blocking ports.  (well.. maybe I’m not going to put them all in one basket).  The reality is every VPN provider I have come across has blocked access or throttles you one way or another. So I’ve actually come up with a simple solution.  Using Amazon’s…

Amazon Prime – Good or Bad – a 2 Year Review

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Percy Kwong

Amazon offers something called Amazon Prime. Basically here is what it offers: Special access to certain quality video content for free viewing on your computer and multiple amazon enabled devices. Free 2 day shipping on everything in its warehouse. Free one day shipping around the holiday times occasionally. Free access to the kindle lending library…

Using Amazon’s Free Tier to get a free VPN server for a year

Posted on May 7, 2012 by Percy Kwong

I’ve written about personal vpn servers and the great things round strongvpn and other vpn providers to get around the ISP throttling problem of Netflix.  I always figured there was a better way to do it. Well, after a bit of thought, I realized that one could easily use Amazon’s free tier (a micro-instance) for…

Using Amazon’s Free Tier to get a free VPN connection for a year.

Posted on May 6, 2012 by Percy Kwong

I know I’ve written about this in the past, but I’ve finally created a guide on how to do this step by step. It’s available for purchase now.  This is literally a how-to on getting an OpenVPN server up and running for free for a year. Specify Your Donation: (Min. $5.00)  [wp_eStore_buy_now:product_id:11:end]

Using Amazon’s free tier to get your own FREE personal vpn server and connection.

Posted on April 15, 2012 by Percy Kwong

I’ve written about personal vpn servers and the great things round strongvpn and other vpn providers to get around the ISP throttling problem of Netflix.  I always figured there was a better way to do it. Well, after a bit of thought, I realized that one could easily use Amazon’s free tier (a micro-instance) for…

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