Re: Tarsnap is here to stay.

[M Preddy <preddydm@fastmail.us>]

Besides, a company run by many vs. one run by one isn't necessarily a
panacea to availability problems -- in fact, I'm more comfortable with
the current arrangement as bigger operators are more susceptible to
change according to profit margins.  Despite Tarsnap's great
convenience, relying on a single backup point for mission-critical work
is a recipe for disaster no matter how much you sugarcoat it.

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  M Preddy
  preddydm@fastmail.us

On Mon, Mar 10, 2014, at 08:31 AM, Scott Wheeler wrote:
> 
> 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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