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They wouldn't, but often times certain regulations may require it.

Could be, though he speaks about MySQL, PostgreSQL as well, and in other places about MS SQL, mostly hammering the license cost, which is obviously huge.

One more thing I'd add is I have no clue who these upset DBAs are and who is thinking Stump & Co. are dumb. Everyone making these sql/no-sql blog posts seems like they're starting a war with made-up enemies.

"Let’s say you have 10 monster DB servers and 1 DBA; you’re looking at about $500,000 in database costs."

I wonder what he thinks is a "monster db server", and considering he included the DBA in the price, is this the price per year or what?

Having recently set up a dual E5620 with 48GB of RAM and 8 SSD drives(160GB each) with a 3ware controller as well for just shy of 10K USD, I guess my understanding of "monster" is quite different. For 13K USD the same server would have 96GB of RAM.

How exactly did you download them? Nvidia removed them from their website, and you should only download drivers from there.

This is true for LCDs, but plasma TVs consume a lot less on a completely black background as opposed to a completely white one.

Using a synthetic benchmark is not exactly very accurate in order to determine price/performance, as not everyone is going to buy a processor to do Passmark's benchmark all day, not to mention the fact that certain processors might not contain the same features as others (ex: virtualization support).

If there was some sort of adblockplus for Opera I'd jump ship from Firefox in a heartbeat.

There isn't a lot to compete on, and trying to make a table that has a lot of green checks under for our features while the competitions has less checks or "limited" features seems a bit silly.

There is a larger minimum quantity, but when you look at it, you might want to have archives for your backup as well as synced up backups, so you'll need a bit more storage, and the space can get used up pretty fast.

It seems like the guys at tarsnap have made their own application. The files are stored unencrypted, and it is the user's responsibility to encrypt them as the user sees fit, removing any limitation and not forcing the users to use only one protocol or application to store encrypted backups.

Using duplicity with a GPG key you can store your backups in an encrypted fashion.

Added a link with more RAID6 info and a diagram.

Speeds can go up to 100mbps, but it varies based on how busy the server is, distance between your server and RB servers. You can ping bishop.royalbackup.com to get a rough idea of latency.

No, I don't own the datacenter, as I probably wouldn't bother with backup services if I had millions to throw on a datacenter, and instead I'd be selling rack space and bandwidth ;).

Regarding the encryption: the files stored are not encrypted, it is your task to encrypt them, with whatever method you choose, as I believe this removes some of the limitations I might impose if I were to forcefully encrypt everything, though I understand this can make it harder for newer users that are inexperienced.

It's a custom order, they don't list everything they offer, you have to ask.

A small-ish company called 478east(www.478east.com). They offer relatively cheap high-end hardware in their LA point of presence, but lack a fancy control panel like SoftLayer.

Very expensive, unless you only need to use it during peak traffic hours. A month runs you over 700$, and I'm renting a dual quad core with 32GB of RAM, plus bandwidth for 450$ right now.