Need some email/colo service -- recommedations?

[Derek Martin]

On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 08:56:16AM -0600, Chris Devers wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Johannes B. Ullrich wrote:
> 
> > IMHO, tapes are just too expensive. Overall, I am switched almost
> > exclusively to backups to disk/CD/DVD. 
[SNIP]
> Yeah, but hard drives are fragile things

Poppycock.  Throw a few 100GB hard drives on and IDE RAID controller
and run RAID 5.  It's faster, cheaper, and more reliable than just
about anything.  For extra redundancy, replicate to an off-site
duplicate.  You'll need to replace a drive every so often, but so
long as you do nothing monumentally stupid (or have a multi-site
meltdown), your data's in good shape.  Keep your off-site dup in a
bunker to ensure against nukes (I'm not joking, if it's a concern)...

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Derek D. Martin
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