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Do they have "Tele" somewhere in their name?
Just asking as last week one of the hosts of our "cloud" provider went down and we lost all VMs on that host; and previously they've taken our stuff offline to do scheduled maintenance.
We're now looking elsewhere.
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No "Tele" in the provider's name.
Will have a new provider in a month or two. This will be "managed" hosting. I don't deal with the contracts but I've made those who do aware of the need to know exactly what "managed" means.
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There is NOTHING more sure and secure than doing your own $%^&in backups of your own ^%$#in drive to your own $%^&in drive(s).
Don't be lazy and assume someone else will do it.
Keep your data, tell the cloud to go blow and use an imager not file by file
to back it up.
Sheesh, where did smart people go wrong......
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But...but...it's the Latest Thing! It must be wonderful! Like Justin Beiber! And Whatever Simon Cowell's latest b(r)and is called...
It's secure - nothing will ever get leaked or hacked: Apple says so[^]
It's safe - no companies are there just for the money and do the absolute minimum possible to get the business!
It's protected - no companies pay minimum wage to anyone they can get in off the streets to run the servers that hold your data!
Um...I'm with you: it's a poor idea and a massive backwards step to the centralised data days of yore, only with vastly reduced or o=non-existent security. And you can't even barge into the guy responsibles office and bang on the desk to get his attention! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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If you're the kind of guy who would hand the keys of his house to a total stranger to look after, then Cloud storage is for you...
I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.
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These are reasons I tend to go with solutions that give no luxuries like drives to have data stored on to loose. I have been using Heroku, as one example, for several years. Every time I make a change to the source code and push that change to my application, whatever server my app is living on gets wiped out and the source is fresh from git. In fact every time I restart the app or scale up another server, this same thing happens. Everything that needs to be persisted is stored in s3 or in a database.
I like to think of it as another separation of concerns. Nothing but code, which is redundant in git, is stored on the server. Environment variables get dynamically loaded each time the server starts for any configuration settings.
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Had this discussion with my buddy whos in IT about how all these hosting sites cloud or otherwise actually do backups.
I can believe all these sites use tape back-ups.
Read thru the agreement of my hosting site from what I gathered is they do their best.
Any ideas how stuff is actually backup by someone in the industry.
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Does a food fight at an Indian takeaway start with an argy-bhaji?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Don't get curried away with these puns. I've had my phall, and naan of them are very funny. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Korm-aaan! I know you love 'em!
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Only when I'm listening to Chapati Smith.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I love her "Smells Like Tikka Massala" cover!
And her seminal "Because the Naan"...
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I've listened to her since I was nihari to a grasshopper.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Yeah, that's right, just curry on 
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There must be samosa way to prevent puns
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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It's a bit of a pickle. 
OK, that one was terrible.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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If this keeps up and dal makhani poor stretches available.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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We could threaten the punster switch a visit from Sean in his usual attire...
(The mankini)
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Like a lamb to the slaughter
veni bibi saltavi
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If ye like gazing at beautiful maps, I think ye'll enjoy this site (looks non-commercial to me, but I confess to total ignorance about what Tumblr "is"; the site appears to be "anonymous"): [^].
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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Those are really cool.
One of the designs is from stamen maps[^], here is a detail[^] of the watercolor process they use which I find absolutely fascinating.
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...and a garden to put it in...
Really cool[^] (or should I say hot?)
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Spot (weld) on! 
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