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Hetzner is a wonderful provider, and as transparent as possible, with exceptional prices/value. I've recently decided to stop renting a machine - I've had 3 se

by pmlnr 5y ago

Hetzner is a wonderful provider, and as transparent as possible, with exceptional prices/value. I've recently decided to stop renting a machine - I've had 3 server auction machines across 10 years - with 2x3TB enterprise (internal ecc protected) HDD, Xeon, 16GB ECC RAM, etc. The hw is aging, the disks were reasonably new, and it all just works, for practically pennies compared to cloud providers (no IO, no internal bw cost, fully dedicated CPUs, and so on). My reason to leave it was lack of need; I decided to move my backups and archives offline and my services to a tiny home "server".

capableweb 5y ago
> I decided to move my backups and archives offline and my services to a tiny home "server". I hope you're not gonna regret "moving" backups rather than "copying". I made that mistake once, and only once. Now I only copy my backups if there is some better alternative, while keeping the "worse" one unless I did it for security reasons.
- pmlnr 5y ago
  There are always pros and cons to everything. Having reasonably personal and/or sensitive backups and archives on the same machine where I have web, email, and messaging services made me feel growingly uneasy. I also prefer not to use energy when not needed, meaning offline is a better thing for my world view. It is true that offline archiving is a mess: fire and waterproof safety boxes, reliable hardware, multiple copies, etc. plus I lose geographically duplicated datasets, which is something I haven't given up on - I just couldn't figure it out how to do it yet :)
  - DarylZero 5y ago
    I bought an 8TB hard drive for sole purpose of keeping offsite backups at my parents' house, in case of fire. Been over a year, drive has some backup data on it, but still haven't brought the drive over there. I should have gone with my original idea, to install a server in their house and transfer over the internet.

by pmlnr 5y ago

capableweb 5y ago

> I decided to move my backups and archives offline and my services to a tiny home "server". I hope you're not gonna regret "moving" backups rather than "copying". I made that mistake once, and only once. Now I only copy my backups if there is some better alternative, while keeping the "worse" one unless I did it for security reasons.

pmlnr 5y ago
There are always pros and cons to everything. Having reasonably personal and/or sensitive backups and archives on the same machine where I have web, email, and messaging services made me feel growingly uneasy. I also prefer not to use energy when not needed, meaning offline is a better thing for my world view. It is true that offline archiving is a mess: fire and waterproof safety boxes, reliable hardware, multiple copies, etc. plus I lose geographically duplicated datasets, which is something I haven't given up on - I just couldn't figure it out how to do it yet :)
- DarylZero 5y ago
  I bought an 8TB hard drive for sole purpose of keeping offsite backups at my parents' house, in case of fire. Been over a year, drive has some backup data on it, but still haven't brought the drive over there. I should have gone with my original idea, to install a server in their house and transfer over the internet.