Get to the android market and download those apps. There’s some good stuff available right now. Games, utilities, launchers, etc. And if you buy something and you don’t like it, simply refund your money within the trial time period and you’ve lost nothing!

Linode is cheaper than many of the other big names in VPS and they offer plenty of storage and bandwidth too. Monitoring their status page for a few days/weeks should give you a good idea of the kind of downtime you’ll be looking at.

RAID storage has come down in price in a very short period of time. Is there really any point to spending tens of thousands for small workgroups?