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Hey, good business idea: backup storage in vans! :)
AWS beat you to it[0]. Not a van, but a 45 foot trailer. [0] https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/
That's impressive!
Postmortem of the failure of one hosting storage unit on Jan. 8, 2020
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Re: Postmortem of the failure of one hosting storage unit on Jan. 8, 2020
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I don't have hundreds customers, but I handle hundreds of TiB of data (for a science lab). Issues occur from time to time, and I can assure that these times are very stressful. I am grateful to rely on ZFS, because yet I have never lost any data from people (datasets are often around 10TiB).
No offsite backups? Backblaze B2 is exceedingly cheap for example.
We do have backups, but getting back your hundred's TiB is really long: you want to keep it where they are living.
Re: Postmortem of the failure of one hosting storage unit on Jan. 8, 2020
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Hopefully... My dedicated hosting was very cheap, I paid $20 a month.
It's Delimiter, wasn't it? They weren't a very good hosting organization to begin with, but you get what you pay for.
Right. When I relocated to a home with FTTH, I switched to self-hosting.