Re: How to run a backup server?

Patrick Proniewski <patrick.proniewski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:22:12 +0200

On 10 juin 2011, at 11:21, Igor GaliÄ wrote:

> I'm wondering if it isn't really cheaper (and saner, and healthier)
> to just get a VPS somewhere...

Being "somewhere" (including the could) still leaves you with a probability of an outage. The VPS can crash, can be DDoSed, can be hacked... The infrastructure supporting the VPS can crash, loose data, etc.
Speaking of limiting downtimes, it's of course safer to have a virtual server in the cloud (say amazon for example), because they provide a very strong infrastructure, and redundancy.

Patrick PRONIEWSKI
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Administrateur SystÃme - DSI - UniversitÃ LumiÃre Lyon 2