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Assuming the $5 VPS provider has proper backup and recovery procedures in place.

• prepend 4y ago
  For $5 they definitely should. Also assuming the sun doesn’t end in a sudden heat death event. Also assuming that my fingers aren’t removed in a thresher accident. And assuming the provider has electricity. Etc etc etc, it’s important to vet that services I pay for have SLAs and are competent.
  • padobson 4y ago
    >Also assuming that my fingers aren’t removed in a thresher accident. This wouldn't happen with a $5 pitchfork and a stone threshing floor
  • dekhn 4y ago
    you left out the meteor-data-center-strike problem. Most $5 VPS don't do realtime snapshotting to an out-of-region data center with live failover.
• LinuxBender 4y ago
  Many of the VPS providers have a backup option. My personal preference is to have a VM at a few different VPS providers and a cron job that uses lftp to do a rsync-like replication between VPS providers using SFTP. The advantage of lftp over rsync is that I can sync between accounts that are chroot sftp-only with nearly identical capabilities of rsync. The lftp client can also break up one file into multiple TCP streams. In the event a provider terminates my account I could not care less. The files will be at multiple providers and HAProxy will automatically remove them when the content validation health checks fail.