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Storage? I am Storage!
Within the next week or two, I expect to have a cable system up and running and connected to my office network (see this thread for details - and also if you want to help me set it up right). That will give me:
1: A cable link in the 512k class. (They no longer cap the cable link speeds on these new deals - you are limited only by the speed of the network and your ability to pay the download charges - but expecting more than 512k out of it would be foolish.)
2: Dual 2.5GB per month bandwidth allowances before I have to pay extra cents per MB - dual 2.5GB because I'm getting it on both at home and at the office, so 5GB in total.
3: A static IP (which costs extra, so I'm only doing that at the office).
4: Unlimited storage space. (Well, limited by my ability to buy enough hard drives, but that should be space enough.)
5: Unlimited free downloads off-peak - that's between 1:00AM and 7:00AM my time. I can download as much as the cable will carry between those hours and it doesn't count towards my 2.5GB limits.
So: what say I set up a machine in the DMZ (which will probably also function as my mail server and possibly as a www or FTP server) with a nice big hard drive, hand Doug the keys to my firewall, and we get a proper off-site backup happening? Kristi and I can make an emergency CD backup of Doug's backups from time to time - once a week, let's say, as there two or three burners attached to the network.
Worth doing?
1: A cable link in the 512k class. (They no longer cap the cable link speeds on these new deals - you are limited only by the speed of the network and your ability to pay the download charges - but expecting more than 512k out of it would be foolish.)
2: Dual 2.5GB per month bandwidth allowances before I have to pay extra cents per MB - dual 2.5GB because I'm getting it on both at home and at the office, so 5GB in total.
3: A static IP (which costs extra, so I'm only doing that at the office).
4: Unlimited storage space. (Well, limited by my ability to buy enough hard drives, but that should be space enough.)
5: Unlimited free downloads off-peak - that's between 1:00AM and 7:00AM my time. I can download as much as the cable will carry between those hours and it doesn't count towards my 2.5GB limits.
So: what say I set up a machine in the DMZ (which will probably also function as my mail server and possibly as a www or FTP server) with a nice big hard drive, hand Doug the keys to my firewall, and we get a proper off-site backup happening? Kristi and I can make an emergency CD backup of Doug's backups from time to time - once a week, let's say, as there two or three burners attached to the network.
Worth doing?