Comment by oefrha
6 years ago
Often times the backup provider is the hosting provider, whom you have to trust. (This extends all the way from big clouds like AWS and GCE to small providers like Linode and DO). Having an external backup can be unreasonably expensive due to ridiculous egress costs.
If your business can't afford external backups then you don't have a viable business in the first place. And of course egress costs have to be considered when choosing a hosting provider.
Not everything that’s hosted in the cloud is a business. In fact, the Internet wasn’t even created for the purpose of profit-generating business.
The Internet was created by the military, so yes it was.
You can still back up to the same providers' different data center. Two data centers failing simultaneously is very unlikely.
Not always an option. For instance, I use Linode’s backup service and it can only back up to the same data center (although it is said to live on a separate system).
You can, and should, back up your irreplaceable data elsewhere using a custom solution. Unless it's some service that doesn't allow you to export the data at all, it may be inconvenient, but it is an option.
Coming from a Linode employee, I can confirm this is true. Linode's backups live in the same data center as the server, but the systems are separated so that they don't directly affect one another.
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They could mean using regular data transfer (i.e. using something like rsync instead of the provider's backup service). Maybe egress costs among servers from the same provider are reduced or nullified.
From[1]:
> Traffic over the private network does not count against your monthly quota.
I wonder how private addresses are setup by Linode.
[1] https://www.linode.com/docs/platform/billing-and-support/net...
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