Re: EU based server & storage

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

On 01/24/11 04:01, Chris Paulson-Ellis wrote:
> Tarsnap looks like an excellent service. Ironically I learned about it
> from coverage of the recent security bug, but the open and comprehensive
> response to the bug inclines me towards more trust in the service than
> any amount of marketing from other providers.

You and lots of other people, it seems.  In the two days following the
announcement going out there was a 500% increase in new accounts.  (Sadly,
now the rate seems to have gone back to normal levels.)

> However, I'm nervous about having our company data stored outside the EU
> (I'm in the UK), encrypted or otherwise.
> 
> Are there any plans to host an instance of the service in Amazon's EU
> data centre (in Eire)?

Not yet.  The server bits need a fair bit of TLC -- they're very stable, but
occasionally I need to tweak things a bit to avoid performance problems --
and managing everything twice over would be difficult at the moment.

Once I get some more of the server-side performance bottlenecks sorted out,
though, there should be less need for regular tuning and setting up an EU
version of Tarsnap would be more feasible.  This is unlikely to happen sooner
than 2012, though.

-- 
Colin Percival
Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve
Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid