Cloudatcost: 35$ one-time virtual servers

Post by kawsper » Sun, Oct 20, 2013, 3:59 PM UTC

komljen wrote: post #31

0xEA wrote: post #2

Must be a scam...

It is not a scam...

Post by mayrun » Sun, Oct 20, 2013, 5:18 PM UTC

Post by ddmf » Thu, Oct 24, 2013, 7:27 AM UTC

od2m wrote: post #26

mathrawka wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honest question here. How do you use backups on DO? I use salt stack to manage state on all my servers. The only server I care about would be the server that manages salt... but creating a one-time image of the OS and saving all the salt files in a git repo is enough of a backup for me. As for databases, I have a script that runs and stores them on S3.

Basically the DO backups are for machines that can tolerate 24/hrs data loss-- which to be honest is the vast majority of things. Would I run critical stuff this way? No. My personal websites/blogs and jerkoff clients? Yes. What do you want for $1/month for a backup? For things I'm a bit more paranoid about I do postgres/mysql backups at regular intervals, and rsync any data directories to another server. To me the a…