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Locally I have a RAID 1 and backup everything to Crashplan. I use Crashplan with family and friends, I plan on subscribing to backup to their servers for extra protection. I also use Wuala / Google drive for photo sharing.

Never rely on hard disk. They will break. Don't rely on home solutions, you'll lose everything in case of fire, flood, lightning strikes, robbery, ...

Any home base solution has a single point of failure, it's location. So any solution with offsite backup will be better.

My suggestions :

- Buy a 2 disks NAS (Synology, Qnap, Lacie or similar), you can have 8TB on some of them. Want extra safety? Go with a 4 bay NAS in RAID10.

- Get a Crashplan yearly plan.

- Subscribe to unlimited bandwidth with your internet provider.

Any other online file sharing service will do the job but Crashplan is built for that and the price is fair.

And whatever solution you choose, the most important thing is, TEST IT. Do a simple recovery test once in a while. Setup alerts or reminder to look at your backup.

I moved out from Dropbox for similar reasons in 2011. I now use Wuala.

Ucarp looks cool, will sure have a look. Thank you for the input.

I agree DNS load balancing is very easy and free. I've also done it in the past. Thanks for the input!

Thanks for the input!

I agree Nginx does it and does it well. I've look at this option, getting another VPS and setup load balancing on it. The only things that worry me is having only one front-end.

I wish I could afford one!

Your colleagues might give you weird looks but hey...

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http://www.howardleight.com/ear-muffs/sync

I really liked this post! I sometimes feel the innovators and thinkers of this world are not getting their fair share of attention.

I also feel like companies should team up together and do crazy things share the risks as a group.

If a group of key companies team up together to make nearly impossible things they would also create a "hype" in an instant around this. It doesn't need to be the Hyperloop, it could be much much more "down to earth"

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