Tarsnap outage postmortem

Post by vasco » Thu, Jul 27, 2023, 6:47 AM UTC

pritambarhate wrote: post #35

mekster wrote: post #29

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It's insane. Not sure how anyone can accept such a rip off pricing. Tarsnap : $0.25 / GB storage, $0.25 / GB bandwidth cost rsync.net : $0.015 / GB storage, no bandwidth cost s3 : $0.023 / GB storage, some complicated bandwidth pricing If tarsnap is built on top of s3, they're charging 10 times for the storage cost. Easy money from the uninformed?

There is also cost development and ongoing support. You haven't factored that in your 10 times the storage cost calculation.

Post by RockRobotRock » Thu, Jul 27, 2023, 6:50 AM UTC

crossroadsguy wrote: post #37

RockRobotRock wrote: post #31

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in that case I'm curious about all the downvotes for asking a reasonable question

Well while I use Tarsnap for a very small amount of data (due to pricing) and I quite like Tarsnap for my use-case scenario, your question might have been downvoted due to two reasons: - your comment was a very valid question but rather quip-like, offhanded, seemed off etc etc. I mean something like that… - Tarsnap is an hn darling If I have to pick one I think it’s the latter :)

Post by Kwpolska » Thu, Jul 27, 2023, 6:53 AM UTC

TheDong wrote: post #10

switch007 wrote: post #4

Not to be that guy, but it’s unreadable either zoomed in or in reader mode either horizontal or landscape on iOS. Colin, could the website be updated to the 2010s? :P

It's not Colin's fault that you're using a browser that can't render an html rendition of an email which has been widely in use since before iOS existed. This is entirely Safari's fault for not having good compatibility with a common existing webpage format. Anyway, if you're the intended audience (someone using tarsnap), you also received a copy to your email address, where you can read the text with your email read…

 of hard-wrapped prose (that it could reflow in reader mode) and a 
 of code?

Post by playingalong » Thu, Jul 27, 2023, 6:59 AM UTC

AceJohnny2 wrote: post #39

throwaway290 wrote: post #28

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What use is SLA? If a service goes down for too long, are you really going to hire a lawyer sue it over SLA or just... use another backup?

It's not about suing, but defining expectations about how you can rely on a service. For example, my team has people across the world for HW bringup, so we can't allow our code hosting or CI to be down for more than a few hours. Of course, backups have different uptime requirements, but as for everything, it's a tradeoff between features, of which an SLA is one. Tarsnap's features are granularity of cost, reliability…

Post by crossroadsguy » Thu, Jul 27, 2023, 7:10 AM UTC

mekster wrote: post #46

crossroadsguy wrote: post #37

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Well while I use Tarsnap for a very small amount of data (due to pricing) and I quite like Tarsnap for my use-case scenario, your question might have been downvoted due to two reasons: - your comment was a very valid question but rather quip-like, offhanded, seemed off etc etc. I mean something like that… - Tarsnap is an hn darling If I have to pick one I think it’s the latter :)

If it's the latter, then reader quality is quite screwed up in here trying to make people endorse crazy pricing because he's some known guy around here.