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Jesse Noller (of Python fame) launches simple fileserver for the cloud

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Re: Jesse Noller (of Python fame) launches simple fileserver for the cloud

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sachinag wrote: post #19
jnoller wrote: post #13

For what it's worth - I'm Jesse :) Like I've said in previous replies - I'm just a (very happy) employee. On launch day I did post to HN (here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1112218 ). If you're interested in details, take a look at the technology section, FAQ: http://www.nasuni.com/product/technology/ http://www.nasuni.com/resources/faqs/ It's important to note that an important feature of the Filer is that we…

At my company, we continually are looking for new providers for shared storage. Right now, we're on Dropbox, but I'm evaluating just throwing them all into Google Docs since they give us free storage and we can copy/paste direct URLs for files into IMs and e-mails. Can you compare Nasuni's offerings to Dropbox and GDocs? The "choose your cloud" is nice, I suppose, but that's way too complicated for me as a business p…

For this type of question, I would actually ask you send feedback/questions like this to feedback@nasuni.com, where the team can look at it and comment. Alternatively, you can also call us directly at 508-651-0580

Re: Jesse Noller (of Python fame) launches simple fileserver for the cloud

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tsuraan wrote: post #27

So, you support multiple backends (looks like two, moving towards four), but as a user, I have to choose one? Is there a plan for a RAID-type storage? One of my big fears about cloud storage is that when a provider decides it's done with the game, I have to try to slurp all my data off that provider onto a new one. If I could have a RAID5 between the four providers you offer, it would provide some peace of mind. Or i…

This is a good idea - I would recommend you email it to feedback@nasuni.com as well as any other features or ideas you have. That way the entire team can take a chance to discuss it and respond and save it.

Re: Jesse Noller (of Python fame) launches simple fileserver for the cloud

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mark_l_watson wrote: post #23

For a large business, this looks like a great product. Way too expensive for an individual or very small company. Jungle Disk is a lot cheaper, and I am going to set my wife's MacBook up to use it since she is not so good about backing up frequently to Time Machine. Personally, I use a remote git server, and frequently back up the remote git directories to S3. The only problem is this is not secure if remote servers…

Jungle Disk can use your own encryption keys ;-)

Re: Jesse Noller (of Python fame) launches simple fileserver for the cloud

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Post by rlpb »

alttab wrote: post #6
lvecsey wrote: post #4

For some usage cases isn't Coda a suitable replacement? http://coda.cs.cmu.edu/

While Coda has been around for a while and is great - it looks like this provides a different service. This is cloud based, does your backups for you, and doesn't require that you have your own servers, which reduces maintenance. Code is software - not a "turn key" full solution. But you are correct, if cost cutting isn't your issue and you wanted a distributed file system that's leaps and bounds over NFS that would…

> and doesn't require that you have your own servers

It looks to me like it requires a virtual machine somewhere, which presumably means that you need a server to run one on. There's an FAQ "What happens when I need to migrate to a new server?" which suggests this too.

Although I can't seem to find a summary anywhere of what would be involved in setting this up on your own network.

Re: Jesse Noller (of Python fame) launches simple fileserver for the cloud

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Post by jnoller »

rlpb wrote: post #36
alttab wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While Coda has been around for a while and is great - it looks like this provides a different service. This is cloud based, does your backups for you, and doesn't require that you have your own servers, which reduces maintenance. Code is software - not a "turn key" full solution. But you are correct, if cost cutting isn't your issue and you wanted a distributed file system that's leaps and bounds over NFS that would…

> and doesn't require that you have your own servers It looks to me like it requires a virtual machine somewhere, which presumably means that you need a server to run one on. There's an FAQ "What happens when I need to migrate to a new server?" which suggests this too. Although I can't seem to find a summary anywhere of what would be involved in setting this up on your own network.

The download/appliance is a VMware image (ergo, a virtual appliance). This means you must have a VMware server somewhere on your LAN.
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