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Meta: I really dislike the style of console.dev, the article is shunted to the left and leaves the rest of the screen real estate to be taken up by an - albeit pretty - but unnecessary piece of digital artwork. This - https://ibb.co/nzbFxjW - is what the article looks like on my ultrawide which made for very uncomfortable viewing
Really well done interview, some real interesting bits in there. One part concerned me though, in the interview, it mentions "we own (and have built) all of our own platform." and it fails to mention a few critically important key parts of a storage platform, first being encryption. How are personal files being handled? Is encryption being used? Are you able to access this data using a shared key? As well as continge…
"How are personal files being handled? Is encryption being used? Are you able to access this data using a shared key?" We give you an empty UNIX filesystem. So, if you push up files over rsync or sftp, they will sit here unencrypted. However , there are now excellent "tools like rsync that encrypt the remote result with a key rsync.net never sees" - chief among them being 'borg'[1]. Other options include duplicity an…
I'd be happy with a socket/pipe to 'zfs recv zpool/benlivengood/data' that I could throw send-stream data at once a day or so.
Meta: I really dislike the style of console.dev, the article is shunted to the left and leaves the rest of the screen real estate to be taken up by an - albeit pretty - but unnecessary piece of digital artwork. This - https://ibb.co/nzbFxjW - is what the article looks like on my ultrawide which made for very uncomfortable viewing
Not sure why you couldn’t just resize the window here?
You write down that you have no router, though your primary US location is connected to a "quintuple-homed network" and all global locations are at least triple-homed. What does that mean exactly? Is your IP provider quintuple-homed? Or are you running a bit more complicated setup than you explain but the gist is that you have no particular routing mechanisms? What does that say regarding your high availability? If o…
So we have a dumb switch in our rack, but they have routers.
In 2021 that's a weird bandwidth product and a weird setup but in 2001 it was "normal" and we just stay with that setup out of inertia (and the fact that we can't connect to he.net in San Diego).
A similar setup exists for us in Zurich with init7.
However, you are correct and we need to edit that FAQ language: our geo-redundant site in Fremont does not work that way.
(I will note that it has been 11 years since we put that location in place (he.net in Fremont) and it has zero minutes of downtime)
A tremendous amount of complexity and attack surface are eschewed by living with that setup and we're always looking for new ways to make that tradeoff.
[1] Castle Acess datacenter on Aero drive. Is now a KIO managed datacenter.
I wish I had a personal use case where the pricing of rsync.net made sense. It looks like a great service. For now, I use Backblaze Unlimited. I realize they are not the same service, but Backblaze works for my personal stuff and the price is great.
[1]:https://www.rsync.net/products/borg.html [2]:https://medium.com/@mormesher/building-your-own-linux-cloud-...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've used rsync.net in the past- it's essentially "filesystem as a service." You, the customer, use it to back your own software that handles the encryption and replication. Their website has some how-to guides for some common software, or you can roll your own with the rsync protocol. Notably, their website only claims transfer encryption, not encryption at rest. You can of course encrypt your files yourself with yo…
Not having data encrypted by default is concerning, however I do admire the simplistic approach of handling your own dataflow and tools for sure.
Meta: I really dislike the style of console.dev, the article is shunted to the left and leaves the rest of the screen real estate to be taken up by an - albeit pretty - but unnecessary piece of digital artwork. This - https://ibb.co/nzbFxjW - is what the article looks like on my ultrawide which made for very uncomfortable viewing
Jealous of how well you seem to be able to keep to KISS as a principle.
I wish I had a personal use case where the pricing of rsync.net made sense. It looks like a great service. For now, I use Backblaze Unlimited. I realize they are not the same service, but Backblaze works for my personal stuff and the price is great.
Test your backups.
https://messengergeek.wordpress.com/2018/03/09/backblaze-rev...