Subj : Re: Moving my boards to the cloud
To   : Mandarax
From : Nightfox
Date : Wed Dec 07 2022 12:38:13

  Re: Re: Moving my boards to the cloud
  By: Mandarax to Nightfox on Wed Dec 07 2022 03:25 pm

 Ni>> I'm curious what made you decide to do that?  I do think there are
 Ni>> some 

 Ma> The reasons I decided to do it is not having to worry about hardware
 Ma> (housing it somewhere, powering it, maintaining it). Then there is the
 Ma> security that the server is no where on my personal network at home at
 Ma> all. The uptime is more secure. As I am protected again power outages and
 Ma> ISP outages which happen more often then from a data center. Additionally,
 Ma> my entire server image is backed up daily without me having to do
 Ma> anything. So easy to recover if something was to happen to the server. 

There are definitely some benefits there.

I wonder how they do their daily backups?  I imagine it would be best to power down the machine to do the backup (which means some downtime daily).  Also, if backups are daily, what if they do a backup when it's in a bad state?  Normally, backups should be in a good working configuration so that if something goes wrong, you know you can always revert back to a good working backup.

Nightfox
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