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Re: Tarsnap is here to stay.

To: tarsnap-users@tarsnap.com
Subject: Re: Tarsnap is here to stay.
From: Scott Wheeler <scott@directededge.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 16:31:36 +0100
In-reply-to: <03da01cf3c6e$b88f1e50$29ad5af0$@TheEwhiteboard.com>
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On Mar 10, 2014, at 3:40 PM, Daniel Wilson <Daniel@TheEwhiteboard.com> wrote:

> As I understand it, the underlying infrastructure is AWS ... so ... massive availability is already provided. It would be one of the most difficult systems in the world to bring down with an uncoordinated DDOS.

AWS doesn’t make things scale with magic pixie scaling dust.  You still have to set things up specifically for auto-scaling to happen; I would wager that the majority of sites / web-services on AWS *do not* do that.

-Scott

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Scott Wheeler | Co-founder | Directed Edge | www.directededge.com | @directededge

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