Re: [Linux-users] Rackspace. Was: Help
:-) $1.99/month or $1,000/month makes no difference as well !!! This morning the challenge was an M2-large AWS instance with 240GB of real data in a 1TB EBS volume. Customer asked to roll back a week and I could not get any of the weekly EBS snapshots to clone and mount on a temp instance so I could pull out the data. Logged a ticket with AWS, which will go into the 'who cares about your piddly data' queue no doubt, but in the mean time recovered the data via an rsync copy I keep at another provider. As you say Volker; no provider will ever care as much about your customer data as you do! Now, I need a coffee Catcha. -Original Message- From: "Volker Kuhlmann" <list0...@paradise.net.nz> Sent: Monday, 30 May, 2016 09:49 To: "Canterbury Linux Users Group" <linux-users@lists.canterbury.ac.nz> Subject: Re: [Linux-users] Rackspace. Was: Help On Sun 29 May 2016 21:49:07 NZST +1200, Chris Hellyar wrote: > I used to be a real fan-boy for Rackspace colo and cloud offerings but I > got burnt last year when their cloud platform dropped a group of servers > into the bit bucket along with the snapshots not being recoverable. > head -> wall. > > Seems weird that you'd backup a cloud server on-premise but in this case > it saved by bacon! NEVER trust any online whatsit to be available when you need it, or to still have any of your data at a time in the future. Unless you don't care about losing the data, that is. And the bigger the cloud company, the less they care about you anyway. "Oh we just lost all your stuff? Who are you anyway? What? You paid us US$1.99/month? Please don't waste our time with your complaints..." Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann http://volker.top.geek.nz/ Please do not CC list postings to me. ___ Linux-users mailing list Linux-users@lists.canterbury.ac.nz http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: [Linux-users] Rackspace. Was: Help
How install AWStats On webmin -Original Message- From: linux-users-boun...@lists.canterbury.ac.nz [mailto:linux-users-boun...@lists.canterbury.ac.nz] On Behalf Of Volker Kuhlmann Sent: Monday, May 30, 2016 9:49 AM To: Canterbury Linux Users Group <linux-users@lists.canterbury.ac.nz> Subject: Re: [Linux-users] Rackspace. Was: Help On Sun 29 May 2016 21:49:07 NZST +1200, Chris Hellyar wrote: > I used to be a real fan-boy for Rackspace colo and cloud offerings but > I got burnt last year when their cloud platform dropped a group of > servers into the bit bucket along with the snapshots not being recoverable. > head -> wall. > > Seems weird that you'd backup a cloud server on-premise but in this > case it saved by bacon! NEVER trust any online whatsit to be available when you need it, or to still have any of your data at a time in the future. Unless you don't care about losing the data, that is. And the bigger the cloud company, the less they care about you anyway. "Oh we just lost all your stuff? Who are you anyway? What? You paid us US$1.99/month? Please don't waste our time with your complaints..." Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann http://volker.top.geek.nz/ Please do not CC list postings to me. ___ Linux-users mailing list Linux-users@lists.canterbury.ac.nz http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users ___ Linux-users mailing list Linux-users@lists.canterbury.ac.nz http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: [Linux-users] Rackspace. Was: Help
On Sun 29 May 2016 21:49:07 NZST +1200, Chris Hellyar wrote: > I used to be a real fan-boy for Rackspace colo and cloud offerings but I > got burnt last year when their cloud platform dropped a group of servers > into the bit bucket along with the snapshots not being recoverable. > head -> wall. > > Seems weird that you'd backup a cloud server on-premise but in this case > it saved by bacon! NEVER trust any online whatsit to be available when you need it, or to still have any of your data at a time in the future. Unless you don't care about losing the data, that is. And the bigger the cloud company, the less they care about you anyway. "Oh we just lost all your stuff? Who are you anyway? What? You paid us US$1.99/month? Please don't waste our time with your complaints..." Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann http://volker.top.geek.nz/ Please do not CC list postings to me. ___ Linux-users mailing list Linux-users@lists.canterbury.ac.nz http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: [Linux-users] Rackspace. Was: Help
On 29/05/16 21:33, Steve holdoway wrote: > I won't ever recommend Rackspace though. Interesting you'd say that... I used to be a real fan-boy for Rackspace colo and cloud offerings but I got burnt last year when their cloud platform dropped a group of servers into the bit bucket along with the snapshots not being recoverable. head -> wall. Seems weird that you'd backup a cloud server on-premise but in this case it saved by bacon! I keep most of my customer platforms backed up to a NAS on my network at home. Belts and braces etc. I'm just going through a re-engineering of my own dev/test stuff at home and going down the KVM+LVM path but still hate snapshots for a backup/recovery method after that incident. rsync + hardlinked folders. Easy-peasy lemon squeasy. Cheers, Chris H. ___ Linux-users mailing list Linux-users@lists.canterbury.ac.nz http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
