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[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You offer paid hosting with hardware in your garage? I'm getting dot-com flashbacks!

[โ€“] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I actually do... Yes... I have dual internet connections, dedicated power off both phases of my electricity with ~5 hours of battery backup, run redundant internal infrastructure (power, network, and server hardware)... I also have a massive backup library and am currently working on obtaining offsite backups solution. The whole site/house is also monitored with cameras.

I have better uptime than some datacenters in my area have which I can truthfully quantify that as I also hold a CIO/CISO position in another company that operates out of a major Datacenter in my area.

Edit: Should clarify, an offsite backup solution that ISN'T "just peer with backblaze or some other provider" to store your backups. I intend to do a rotating tape library. With one set of tapes always being off site.

Also to mention... I have better uptime than AWS-east at this point of the year... Although there will be some outages of my infrastructure here soon for a network hardware update. I suspect something in the order of about 1 minute of downtime total.

[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

obtaining offsite backups solution

I read this as

Put servers in my mum's garage

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

That would be why I added my edit :)

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Mom's spare bedroom closet 70 miles away, but yeah.