Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Re: offsite service providers?

[Jeff Strunk]

How secure are will your private files be once you put them on a shared host? 
Will other customers be able to access them? Etc.

Jeff

On Thursday 15 March 2007 3:34 pm, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> Dreamhost looks very intriguing.
>
> (They have a deal right now $19.95/month for their 338GB plan and they
> say their filers all use RAID of some sort and have hotswap
> capability.)
>
> They offer shell access and have python installed.  I know I need the
> password-less ssh connection.  Anything else I should verify before I
> sign-up.  It does not look like much of a risk.
>
> Greg
>
> On 3/15/07, Richard Steven Hack <address@hidden> wrote:
> > The Dreamhost ISP is offering a file hosting option for about $2.50 per
> > GB ONE-TIME payment to host the files FOREVER. That's about as cheap as
> > it gets for file hosting. Those guys tend to be crazy, but the price is
> > right.
> >
> > I don't know if they have a way to set up with rdiff-backup to their
> > storage, but you might contact them and see if they can do a deal.
> >
> > At the moment, I think it's only open to Dreamhost Web hosting
> > customers, but at $9.95 for their basic hosting plan (which BTW gives
> > you a couple hundred GB of Web space in itself which some people use to
> > store files, plus a terabyte or more of download bandwidth), basically
> > it would cost you $10/month to use their Files Forever service plus the
> > one-time payment per GB.
> >
> > They are marketing this as a service for content providers - they
> > provide a mechanism for "loaning" and "selling" access to the files to
> > other people. But they also say it can be used for archive storage of
> > private files.
> >
> > Check it out here: https://files.dreamhost.com/
> >
> >
> >
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