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more reason to have at least a daily backup of your site on S3. Unless you are hosting trillions of TBs, its affordable enough as an offsite backup solution
by vaksel 18y ago
more reason to have at least a daily backup of your site on S3. Unless you are hosting trillions of TBs, its affordable enough as an offsite backup solution
- gojomo 18y agoWhat if they seize S3?
- vaksel 18y agoyou won't really care, since your original servers will still be up
- dkokelley 18y agoI think Amazon will have a better shot at either avoiding that or preventing outages from that.
- gojomo 18y agoToo bad you have to be a multi-billion-dollar corporation to be free from heavy-handed enforcement actions.
- dmaclay 18y agoActually a canny data-center operator might be able to offer a limited free service to something like a hospital, allowing them to argue that a wholesale shutdown might threaten lives. Done just right, the hospital gets a free service and the data-center gets protection.
- mooism2 18y agoAlthough the FBI have shown themselves to be quite capable of shutting down 911 service, which might threaten lives.