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These "Unlimited" offers now bore me. I'd much rather they capture what the actual offer is - is it 100 GB with 50 GB/month Upload, 50 GB/month Download? 500

These "Unlimited" offers now bore me. I'd much rather they capture what the actual offer is - is it 100 GB with 50 GB/month Upload, 50 GB/month Download? 500 GB with 100 GB/month upload, 1 TB/month download? Just be honest with me and tell me what you are offering, don't play games with "Unlimited"

rsync 12y ago
If only there was a cloud storage provider that did just that. If only they were hacker/unix focused and had been around since 2001 and even had a HN readers discount. If only ...
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- ghshephard 12y ago
  Rsync and Tarsnap are two of the of services that are excellent in this nature. In particular, I'm almost 100% certain that if a user goes crazy, and stores 1 TB+ on Rsync, that they wouldn't even blink. Also incredibly attractive about Rsync, is that if you already have a lot of exposure to AWS, then Rsync is an awesome secondary store, as, based on my limited understanding and reading of their FAQs, their is no connection between AWS and Rsync. Should AWS drop off the face of the earth, or some exploit result in an extended data disaster, Rsync is in no way impacted.
  - hakunin 12y ago
    I'm pretty sure you're responding to the rsync creator.
    - ghshephard 12y ago
      Absolutely, but he was too modest to promote himself so I, an disinterested third party did it for him.
  - rsync 12y ago
    Not the rsync creator, but the creator of rsync.net - just to clarify :) Yes, you are correct - we built our own infrastructure. We built the boxes ourselves and we purposely chose Hong Kong and Zurich to be other than the AWS locations. We have no connection to AWS. Except, we do have s3cmd and gsutil in our environment, so you can very, very easily import and export data with those tools: ssh user@rsync.net s3cmd get s3://rsync/mscdex.exe In fact, we have in the past, run ad campaigns reminding people not to have their infrastructure and their backups all in one place.

rsync 12y ago

If only there was a cloud storage provider that did just that. If only they were hacker/unix focused and had been around since 2001 and even had a HN readers discount. If only ...

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ghshephard 12y ago
Rsync and Tarsnap are two of the of services that are excellent in this nature. In particular, I'm almost 100% certain that if a user goes crazy, and stores 1 TB+ on Rsync, that they wouldn't even blink. Also incredibly attractive about Rsync, is that if you already have a lot of exposure to AWS, then Rsync is an awesome secondary store, as, based on my limited understanding and reading of their FAQs, their is no connection between AWS and Rsync. Should AWS drop off the face of the earth, or some exploit result in an extended data disaster, Rsync is in no way impacted.
- hakunin 12y ago
  I'm pretty sure you're responding to the rsync creator.
  - ghshephard 12y ago
    Absolutely, but he was too modest to promote himself so I, an disinterested third party did it for him.
- rsync 12y ago
  Not the rsync creator, but the creator of rsync.net - just to clarify :) Yes, you are correct - we built our own infrastructure. We built the boxes ourselves and we purposely chose Hong Kong and Zurich to be other than the AWS locations. We have no connection to AWS. Except, we do have s3cmd and gsutil in our environment, so you can very, very easily import and export data with those tools: ssh user@rsync.net s3cmd get s3://rsync/mscdex.exe In fact, we have in the past, run ad campaigns reminding people not to have their infrastructure and their backups all in one place.