Offsite backups for the rest of us?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 03:32:15PM -0400, Sy wrote:
> Lennart mentioned istop.com in another thread.. and so I looked at
> it.. and I wondered.
> 
> Well, the first thing I saw was "Headache surcharge for servers
> running Windows - $10/mth extra".

That is for colocation.  Remember how much trouble MSSQL and other MS
produc'ts worms cause to the network admin when they have to start
blocking ports to stop the network from being flooded to death.  I won't
blame them for charging people more for running more troublesome
software (more troublesome for the network that is).  For home machines
they don't care, although they do actively discourage running a server
on windows unless you are an expert at securing windows.

> Buuut..
> 
> It's perfectly reasonable to hire someone's box somewhere for just
> this purpose.  In fact, looking at their rates it seems quite natural.
>  5GBs a month sounds just fine for a good amount of backups.  The only
> worry is backing up that initial chunk of data.  These guys seem cool
> enough that you could probably arrange to ship a drive and ask them to
> dump the contents into the box somewhere.
> 
> This is really just an extension of having a spare box at work which
> you can push your offisite backups to.

Could be seen that way I guess.

Lennart Sorensen
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