[grocketeer]

> Running our services on computers is exactly what we as an industry did in the old-timey days.

There are times I long for the simpler approach from the "old-timey" days, but I digress...

> You've got availability concerns (power, network, hardware failure, etc), the networking to get a static IP in the place the laptop lives might be a bit tricky, but you can absolutely do this.

Availability is a good point :), static IP too. Thanks for the thoughts.