On: Tarsnap price cut

[oskarth]

Why do you need Colin alive in order use tarsnap?

(God, that's a strange sentence to write. Sorry about that, Colin.)

[samwillis → oskarth]

It runs through servers that he manages (it doesn't talk directly to s3). If those servers are down you can access your backups.

[cperciva → samwillis]

I don't carry around EC2 servers my backpack. Me getting hit by a bus wouldn't take the servers down immediately.

[vacri → cperciva]

If you get hit by a bus, who alerts your users and how? If your users aren't alerted, they may not realise that anything is amiss until AWS freeze your account for non-payment (for example).

I can't say that I spend a lot of time keeping up-to-date on the project leaders' obituaries for services I use. I don't imagine I'm unusual in this regard :)

Edit: This is just a rhetorical question, not a demand for explanation :) - just saying that being hit by a bus does not automatically mean that users are shifting off your service in 24 hours.

[icebraining → vacri]

Colin has said he does have a system: http://mail.tarsnap.com/tarsnap-users/msg00849.html

[iancarroll → oskarth]

Assuming the S3 bill is the next day...