[100432] in North American Network Operators' Group
ratio fixer (was: advanced OSes tcp++;)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Tue Oct 23 10:40:12 2007
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:17:20 -0400
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Hex Star <hexstar@gmail.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <27576.1193116245@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 01:10:45AM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> You want to make my day? Come up with a way that Joe Sixpack can *back up*
> that 500 gigabyte hard drive that's in a $600 computer (in other words, if
> that backup scheme costs Joe much more than $50, *it wont happen*).
Having ratio issues? Offer a 'free' backup client so your customers
can upload their bits somewhere else. If the disk is cheap enough and
you come up with a backend system to distribute it appropriately this could
easily become something valuable to offer to consumers. And if you're
a network that pushes traffic in one way, a chance to 'even' it out.
Good luck due to the lower upload speeds (how long to rsync that
new 2G CF card of family photos @ 128k?
- Jared
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