The one I use is easyspeedy.com since they have a center close to me and is fairly cheap. Also, I am fine with the 250GB of the standard server - I know of colleagues of mine though who bought their dedicated server with another provider and are able to simply go to the hosting center and put in a larger drive.
It works fine with photo's too, but obviously you're limited to the SFTP protocol so generating thumbnails on your client or any similar kind of bulk file processing is going to be slow. So for images/video which does a ton of IOPS I suppose you are going to want some eventually-consistent model with transparent sync to the server. Personally I'm hoping that Canonical will open source the Ubuntu One server stack which I would just install on top. Or even better, evolve into a de-facto cloud standard where with could pick and choose from a bunch of compatible providers. On Feb 13, 3:53 pm, Fabrizio Giudici <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2/13/10 15:38 , Casper Bang wrote:> I rent a cheap dedicated server > somewhere close to a primary backbone > > and installed Linux on it. Then I mounted the user home folders (using > > sshfs for Linux clients, expandrive for Windows/Mac clients) and with > > a good upstream/downstream connection, this works really great. Unlike > > dropbox, speed/performance/capacity is somewhat more within your > > control. Also there's no synchronization going on, so if you don't > > like the "eventually consistent" model, this is for you. Still looking > > for a way to access this from Android though, unlike Dropbox there's > > not yet an easy way to do this. > > So far I've always excluded the idea of a remote backup with an external > service, because I don't want to put my data in others' hands. But I'm > often thinking of using a server of mine - my problem is the large > amount of data, my photos alone are 300+ GB, and I wonder whether this > is feasible with backup / restore over the net. How large your data are? > > -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici -www.tidalwave.it/people > [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
