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> create a virtual island That sounds like a really cool project. What would the costs be to finance that?

• tleb_ 6y ago
  One or two servers (second one for redundancy, at another location). File storage would be the expensive part. Starting at 10-20TB usable space with slots for more would be nice. The location would either be at my parents', as I move often and they have a rack installed (with nothing in it, the internet link isn't amazing but should be fine) or it could be colocated at a non-profit FAI (https://www.ffdn.org/en https://www.ffdn.org/en). The colocation is probably the most sensible option for the internet link and stability they bring (proper data center context, back-up generators and they have static IPv4). + long-term encrypted backups to some random service like Backblaze even if I have duplicate storage, I don't trust myself enough to do everything properly. The idea isn't new, I have already seen a few online (I remember of two but no links). The focus was more around hacker&friend groups, looking like private tilde clubs. Here the idea is to provide services usable by anyone in my family, with a nice identity (I like seeing it as an island, a village or such).
• npteljes 6y ago
  Cost I think is negligible, or at least affordable, what I wouldn't like in this scenario is the _responsibility_. The part where uptime depends on you, bugs creep into the system and they become your fault, you bork something and lose some data, and you have to keep everything up to date and interoperable and compatible with whatever current tech everyone uses for access.