Ok so everybody needs backup. No doot aboot it. Everything hoses, given time. The solution? Redundancy! (That's my favourite line actually: The key to success is redundancy.)
Alright, so there's a problem. Now for a solution... what are the requirements here?
It should be
* transparent (like, hardly knowing it's there)
* unlimited
* cheap
So I looked around a bit and signed up for a free 2GB online backup with Mozy. They look decent. The software looks clean and functional. And hey, 2GB goes a long way towards backing up text and source code and such.
It definately meets the 'transparent' requirement. They have 'unlimited' paid accounts, but that's marketing bull. Has to be. They're not the only ones either. Plenty of others. The market has exploded over the last year or so.
Cheap? I guess they are.
But does it actually work? nope, at least not for me.
Why? One word: bandwidth.
Every one these days has tons of data. (tons of mp3's, tons of movies, tons of pictures). I know I do. It's just not an option. I would need a professional internet connection, with high upload speeds (a minimum of 1 Mbit/s, and even then it'd take weeks for the initial backup to finish), and tons of bandwidth usage per month.
Friday, June 08, 2007
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Hi! sorry dont know how to contact you so i'll just post my questions here... , I see that your using editdns to manage your dns records to point to this blog ( found your site through google ).. have you already foudn a fix for the "domain.com" thing. .wherein if visitors type "freecheeseforall.com" they wont get directed to thsi blog rather they should only use "www.freecheeseforall.com" .. there should always be a "www" at the front.. im having the same issue though just wondering if you already have a fix for this.
For a long time I had it configured so that freecheeseforall.com pointed to an apache server that was configured to forward to www.freecheeseforall.com.
It's broken atm but that's entirely my fault.
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