On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 08:18:57AM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: > > On Thu, April 29, 2021 7:51 am, Liz Dodd wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Apr 2021 12:03:56 -0400 > > Glenn Fowler <gfowl...@outlook.com> wrote: > > > >> Hi Derek, > >> > >> Wouldn't it be advantageous to move to a cloud server to relieve you > >> of maintaining hardware and issues with network & power outages and > >> the risk of natural disasters such as fire? > > > > "Cloud" is simply a euphemism for someone else's computer. > > I suspect Derek is of my vintage, and we are happy dealing with > > managing our own stuff and not parking it on someone else's computer. > > Indeed. A cloud service has the same kind of outages. Just look at all > the times that Microsoft, Google, FB, etc services go offline. It's rare, > but it happens. Moreover, if data gets moved into the "cloud" (i.e., onto > someone else's computers), then your (our!) data is at their mercy. > Worse, you don't know *where* your data lives (or who has access to it!!) > > Another alternative is putting a piece of hardware into a colo facility. > That could provide better connectivity and power -- but it's much more > expensive on an ongoing basis, and frankly I DO have my hardware on a UPS > that lasts over 2 hours at current loads. > > I acknowledge that there have been several incidents recently, which is > actually quite unusual. But I've been running these services myself for > well more than a decade now (probably getting closer to 2 decades). > Outages are, on average, few and far between -- and we have full control > over the security of our data. > More of a half-way house as it were would be a virtual server, where you (Derek) have complete control of the system but nasty basic things like power supplies and continuous operation of the hardware is someone else's problem. Like a colo facility but much cheaper. My little virtual server costs only a little over £5/month. That's probably still rather more than a computer sitting at home (though it might well be a close run thing if you take into account power costs).
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