samarudge

In saying that, I'm quite envious of your job, that sounds pretty cool (until things go wrong).

Though, without meaning to criticize the author too much, increasing various ulimits should be standard on pretty much any database server, I would have thought?

Fuck the design if it's unusable.

Command line client, web based UI and HTTP API. Everything you could need for monitoring, logging and restarting processes

It even has the ability to restart processes if/when they die. Example; in our development we can send a trigger to our application that just called exit 0; and restarts the application (useful for debugging)

(This will only make sense to anyone with experience with Oracle Database)

While I agree SOPA is a terrible idea, internet censorship and having a central controlling organization (Or group of organizations) isn't such a bad thing. Look at Deep Web, it seems, to me, to be primarily used for illegal operations (drugs trade, child pornography and other nastys). The way I see it, this effort would be much better applied to resolving the issues we have with the current internet, reducing centralization and reliance on ISPs rather than "to shit with the working system lets start again".

And that's not even touching the technical aspects, the internet as we know it still isn't anywhere near perfect (IPV4 as an example). Are they expecting this to happen overnight? Some of the greatest minds of the last few generations have worked to make the internet what it is now, if university's are "experimenting" with this stuff it's clearly a long way from a realistic option.

That being said, wireless technologies are always improving. I'm sure the military already have some similar mesh based network (all be it on a smaller scale) far more advanced than anything we've seen (Assuming this since the majority of technological advances in communication originated from or were improved by the military). It's by no means a worthless project but I think the idea that in 6/12 months you can buy a box that gives you access to an un-modorated, unfiltered, private internet is a little ridiculous

The software is "white-lable" by account settings, I.E. if you log into LiveDrive application with a Backify account, the branding will be Backify.

1) LiveDrive are a well respected, well known company with a good history of service and customer support. I use them as my main backup service (I never actually used Backify, just wanted to see what it was like) and trust them as such.

2) I just tried to log into my account and can't =)

If LiveDrives concerns about cards have some substance last nights message might have been a last ditch attempt at getting as much information as possible

"First of all we would like to thank you for using Backify. We hope you really liked our service and enjoyed using it. We regret to inform you that we can not provide free backup services anymore. All free Backify accounts will be closed on November 22, 2011.

In order to prevent your account from deletion, please login into [sic] your account and update your Billing Details.

[HUGE GREEN "UPDATE BILLING DETAILS" BUTTON]

Once again, we thank you for using Backify. Please update your billing details before November 22, 2011 to continue using the service."

Interestingly the email sent to my from Backify said the service will continue operating till Nov 22nd.

Personally I use Backblaze for my home stuff, and LiveDrive for my work stuff (More features like file version tracking and briefcase)

Still I guess HTML5 is better than "Web 3.0" =/

This concerns me slightly, backup storage is a whole different world to real time data storage. Backups are write once, read occasionally, some people use S3 as a make-shift CDN, so constantly reading data.

Parity based repplication is great for backups, but would it not have performance implications if every request is reading from multiple disks/servers/nodes? I'm not an expert on hardware, but I would have thought being able to read an entire file of one disk is faster than having to put together pieces of data from multiple disks, anyone want to correct/inform me?

If you can offer me a serious alternative to S3 at a cheaper price, and open source software, I can't wait to try it out. I might sound negative but I just wanted to put across my first thoughts on having a look around the site.

Is the readme

Because I like to work to specification, I wrote a readme before I started the project, which might show the general direction I'm trying to go with it. When I get home tonight I'll stick it on a gist and link it

Currently quite happily using BackBlaze for my personal computers, and working on an open source backup tool for servers </shameless>