On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 16:37 +1200, Chris Hellyar wrote: > On 27/06/11 16:17, Phill Coxon wrote: > > On 27/06/11 16:16, yuri wrote: > >> This can be mitigated by using a provider that has at least one data > >> centre mirroring your data in NZ. > >> > >> Ideally a local provider which mirrors your data across 3 data centres > >> in 3 cities across the country. > > Is there a list of cloud providers that do have local mirrors anywhere? > > > > Thanks. Paranoia is a good thing, but even I would happy with one on each island/one in my hand. In fact my model is Montreal/LA/my garage/my PO Box. If I lose those, then the chances of anything more complex than cockroaches still living on the planet is small.
Cloud providers... what does that mean? The only one that offers raw disk space is Amazon S3, which gives you East and West coast US, Europe and Singapore. If you want redundant mail servers in remote DCs, then I would use either hosted services from any 3 of your fave SPs, which may be difficult to keep in sync, or good old fashioned VPSes, where you can easily set up syncing services, forwarding validated emails to the 2 remote IP addresses. Keep the retry time to the default 5 days ( or even lengthen it ), and you should stand a good chance of having 3 mail servers that will (eventually) be in sync with each other. As both Amazon and Google have lately proved, the only people who you should really trust in this scenario are those directly affected by any failure. That's usually a very small number, and you can probably see them all from your office... > > I suspect that this is the full list right here ---> <--- > > :-) > > Google have a datacentre in Aussie though, and isn't there one going up > on the nth shore? But whether or not they have gmail mirrored in all > datacenters is another question all together. > > Even Xtra don't host their mail in NZ any more, it's on the yahoo.com.au > servers which live at globalswitch in Sydney I believe. Haven't they just parted company with yahoo??? Steve -- Steve Holdoway BSc(Hons) MNZCS <[email protected]> http://www.greengecko.co.nz MSN: [email protected] Skype: sholdowa
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