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They use Hetzner for dedicated servers, slicehost for VPS, 2 colocation services, and AWS cloud. For a relatively small site, why do they need so many differen

They use Hetzner for dedicated servers, slicehost for VPS, 2 colocation services, and AWS cloud. For a relatively small site, why do they need so many different hosting providers?

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- jlindley 12y ago
  At one point the FBI accidentally seized his servers. He's pretty paranoid about redundancy and multi-site online data storage after that. https://blog.pinboard.in/2011/06/faq_about_the_recent_fbi_raid/ https://blog.pinboard.in/2011/06/faq_about_the_recent_fbi_ra...
- idlewords 12y ago
  That is not correct; see my comment upthread.
  - q3k 12y ago
    My bad.
8ig8 12y ago
This is an old post, but may provide some insight... https://blog.pinboard.in/2012/05/a_cloud_of_my_own/ https://blog.pinboard.in/2012/05/a_cloud_of_my_own/ I'm sure there's a HN discussion from back then also. Edit: Lots more on the topic... https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Ablog.pinboard.in+server https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Ablog.pinboard.in+server
idlewords 12y ago
I run admin + staging stuff and my own email on the dedicated servers. The Hetzner box has some offsite backups, too. I want something that won't die at the same time as the website. I use two colos for redundancy. One is in Sacramento, and it mitigates the earthquake risk of the one in Fremont. The AWS costs consists of stuff I'm too lazy to go find and delete. Everyone has an unused EC2 instance or S3 bucket somewhere; that's what keeps Amazon in the black.
- obeid 12y ago
  Is Pinboard still maintained by just one person?* (*)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8069474 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8069474
  - idlewords 12y ago
    Yes. Sometimes not even one!
    - kijin 12y ago
      Yeah, I still haven't made up my mind as to whether I should trust all my bookmarks with a guy who seems to have a knack for disappearing alone into strange corners of the world. Even if he is occasionally protected by a company of tanks and a Hind helicopter :)
      - idlewords 12y ago
        Just make daily backups. That goes for any bookmarking service you use.
        underwater 12y ago
        Couldn't you build that into Pinboard (via Dropbox or similar).
        idlewords 12y ago
        Yeah, but then you're trusting me to do the backups for you. That's much less protection.
        jpwgarrison 12y ago
        yep, this in a crontab somewhere is all you need: curl -k -o ~/backups/pinboard-backups/pinboard-$(date +\%y\%m\%d).json 'https://api.pinboard.in/v1/posts/all?&auth_token=username:APItokenhere&format=json'

They use Hetzner for dedicated servers, slicehost for VPS, 2 colocation services, and AWS cloud. For a relatively small site, why do they need so many different hosting providers?

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jlindley 12y ago
At one point the FBI accidentally seized his servers. He's pretty paranoid about redundancy and multi-site online data storage after that. https://blog.pinboard.in/2011/06/faq_about_the_recent_fbi_raid/ https://blog.pinboard.in/2011/06/faq_about_the_recent_fbi_ra...
idlewords 12y ago
That is not correct; see my comment upthread.
- q3k 12y ago
  My bad.

8ig8 12y ago

This is an old post, but may provide some insight... https://blog.pinboard.in/2012/05/a_cloud_of_my_own/ https://blog.pinboard.in/2012/05/a_cloud_of_my_own/ I'm sure there's a HN discussion from back then also. Edit: Lots more on the topic... https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Ablog.pinboard.in+server https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Ablog.pinboard.in+server

idlewords 12y ago

I run admin + staging stuff and my own email on the dedicated servers. The Hetzner box has some offsite backups, too. I want something that won't die at the same time as the website. I use two colos for redundancy. One is in Sacramento, and it mitigates the earthquake risk of the one in Fremont. The AWS costs consists of stuff I'm too lazy to go find and delete. Everyone has an unused EC2 instance or S3 bucket somewhere; that's what keeps Amazon in the black.

obeid 12y ago
Is Pinboard still maintained by just one person?* (*)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8069474 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8069474
- idlewords 12y ago
  Yes. Sometimes not even one!
  - kijin 12y ago
    Yeah, I still haven't made up my mind as to whether I should trust all my bookmarks with a guy who seems to have a knack for disappearing alone into strange corners of the world. Even if he is occasionally protected by a company of tanks and a Hind helicopter :)
    - idlewords 12y ago
      Just make daily backups. That goes for any bookmarking service you use.
      - underwater 12y ago
        Couldn't you build that into Pinboard (via Dropbox or similar).
        idlewords 12y ago
        Yeah, but then you're trusting me to do the backups for you. That's much less protection.
        jpwgarrison 12y ago
        yep, this in a crontab somewhere is all you need: curl -k -o ~/backups/pinboard-backups/pinboard-$(date +\%y\%m\%d).json 'https://api.pinboard.in/v1/posts/all?&auth_token=username:APItokenhere&format=json'