----- Original Message ----- > Hmmm well in *that* case, seems like your choices are: > 1. pay for VPS > 2. relax your constraint about 5 TB of data > 3. build a server center from the ground up with reliable power > (among other things). > > Pays yer money, takes yer choice. You may *like* to use a real DB, > but are you willing to pay for it? Seems like an unresolvable > conflict to me. http://teddziuba.com/2010/12/the-3-basic-tools-of-systems-engineering.html i > -J > > > > On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 5:06 AM, Lester Caine < lester@xxxxxxxxxxx > > wrote: > > > > Igor GaliÄ wrote: > > > > > Then I have the machines set up to rsync regularly and also rsync to > another machine at my ISP. I don't use MySQL myself, Firebird handles > replication between machines, and incremental backups for me. > > > > I'm wondering if it isn't really cheaper (and saner, and healthier) > to just get a VPS somewhere... > > In my case, cost of storage makes the hosted options silly money. I'm > running 5Tb here but only have 500Mb on the remote service. That and > I like to use a REAL database which is not generally available ;) > > -- > > > > Lester Caine - G8HFL > ----------------------------- > Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact > L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk > EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ > Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// > Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server > Project. > See <URL: http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html > for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > -- Igor GaliÄ Tel: +43 (0) 664 886 22 883 Mail: i.galic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx URL: http://brainsware.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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