That is a website.
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#22> Trial 1 Month 0.1E
> Subscription: 5E per Month
> ...
> I decided to charge 5$ (0.1$ trial)
So which is it? $ or E? And is E supposed to be €? Also, in English the currency marker goes to the left of the number.
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#23My key objection is that it doesn't offer any additional value: if you are the sort of customer who would do this, you are also the sort of customer who would implement the same chain of commands to backup to a virtual machine that you owned, eliminating the attractiveness of baxx.dev as a aggregated target.
What additional value can you add?
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#24Where is this located (for GDPR purposes)?
Deducing from [1]: Currently somewhere on Digital Ocean infrastructure. Long term on Hetzner servers (apparently SX62 [2]), so at that stage it's either Germany or Finland.
1: https://github.com/jackdoe/baxx/blob/master/infra-and-pricin...
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#25".... 750E profit - 50% tax = 375E profit"[1].
50% Taxes in DE, nice place to do business ...
[1] https://github.com/jackdoe/baxx/blob/master/infra-and-pricin...
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#26I have a feeling rsync.net is far more Unix-friendly as a backup service (it's basically a Unix shell provider with automated ZFS snapshots). I do think the website has a neat aesthetic though, and it is cute you can register over SSH (not that this is practically advantageous over a website-based registration -- registration is a one-time operation).
The repo on GitHub doesn't have a license AFAICS.
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#27If there's no website, what am I looking at when I follow the link?
It is a plain text file, served over the HTTP protocol and only incidentally displayed by your web browser, but it could be displayed in a plain text editor or on your console as well.
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#28(Alternative product recommendation, please downvote/remove if you feel that isn't appropriate)
For Unix/Linux backups, may I suggest Borg Backup? It encrypts and does dedupe astonishingly well. It also works over SSH incredibly fast, and restores are via a mounted FUSE filesystem so they're easy to pick and choose what you need. It prunes really well too, and is a single executable so it's easy to distribute via Ansible/Puppet/etc. I've been using it for several years and it hasn't failed me yet.
If y'all want to laugh at my bash scripting skills, I have a backup script that sends backup status to a Zabbix monitor server at https://gist.github.com/anthonyclarka2/cef41d201dd5b890dae67... (I'd appreciate improvements to that script if anyone wants to critique)
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#29".... 750E profit - 50% tax = 375E profit"[1]. 50% Taxes in DE, nice place to do business ... [1] https://github.com/jackdoe/baxx/blob/master/infra-and-pricin...
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#30".... 750E profit - 50% tax = 375E profit"[1]. 50% Taxes in DE, nice place to do business ... [1] https://github.com/jackdoe/baxx/blob/master/infra-and-pricin...
Are you sure this is Germany? The author has their location set to 'Amsterdam' on GH, and has no impressum on their site.
FWIW, corporate taxes in Germany aren't 50%, but 15%. What is close to 50% is personal income tax + health care if you pass a certain threshold. However, even if you're running a just sole tradership (Freier Beruf or Gewerbe), this would only be your personal income - all business expenses are not counted towards your personal income tax base and you get the VAT you paid back.