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SAN isn't often a smart choice. It's often the single point of failure and due to the complexities the thing that fails the most. Amazon AWS more often than not fails at the SAN level each time it die

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amazon's ec2 is a lot cheaper than most of leb/let offers when you pay for reserved instances.

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2

DropBox uses Amazon S3 if I'm not mistaken. That makes it a bit pricey I guess.

Maybe they are selling themselves to Amazon.

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One would think that Amazon or other bill-per-hour type of provider would be more "profitable" for such one day uses, but who knows.. i haven't run the numbers (Image)

Look for backup software that make use of Amazon Glacier

That is correct, "cloud" backup is either less flexible and has very inconvenient limitations (the Java client), downright dishonest advertising ("unmetered" with t

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Does Netflix use only amazon for their infrastructure/storage? You'd think would have their own infrastructure..

Alas, it appears the downtime was the result of human error. According to Amazon's calculations, a developer deleted a portion of ELB data at 12:24 p.m. Pacific on Dec. 24.

@chrisp Have you considered AWS' free 1-year EC2 instance? https://aws.amazon.com/free/

I have cable but never really use it. I wait for shows to show up on Netflix/Amazon Prime and then I watch whole seasons at a time.

And @dominicl you should really read the book I suggested. You can also get it as an ebook via amazon or that other shop somewhere in that bay on a ship. If you want to configure things via a GUI, che

@sdotsen I think I could use a little help, if you could. What mail server are you using and how are you backing up to Amazon S3? Thanks!

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