Seconded. I'm as paranoid as Brian when it comes to my data - but the FISA cannot make USI or VISI or any of those give up information /from my computer/ and the piece of mind of the data center is almost enough for me to make the plunge - except that I'm not generating enough income to colo my own stuff - and my data use/storage is too great for the cloud (Rackspace's cost for my 7TB of data is $650/month - ouch. I could rebuild my server five times a year for that price). But my employer might be doing a colo solution and, if that happens I'll be running just my backup web and email server on that machine - maybe before I do the same at Rackspace. Your security is what you make of it and it always will be. If you're ignorant of the possible issues the you're almost asking for the hacks - but if you're overly proactive and paranoid about the possibilities then you need to live with the consequences - like power and service outages or the exceptionally high cost of installation of redundant sources of electricity. My car engine is not the greatest generator of electricity but it works in a pinch - and I've been known to run a 400W inverter on it to bridge the difference in a power outage during a critical time. Just enough to trickle the UPS back to full so that I can run over to the gas station and refill the tank (I've done this twice in the last 10 years - not ideal but it does work in a pinch). On 6/25/2013 7:30 AM, Erik Anderson wrote: > On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 4:11 AM, Brian Wood <woodbrian77 at gmail.com > <mailto:woodbrian77 at gmail.com>> wrote: > > I'm fine with a padlock for my bicycle, but not the software. > > I enjoy the challenge of building a data center from scratch. > > > OK, *there's* the real reason. You enjoy the challenge. Great! > > I must say, though, It's silly to suggest that the security (with or > without padlock) of a well-designed, well-monitored datacenter is > somehow inferior to keeping a server in the office. There are *so* > many benefits other than security that come along with hosting in a > datacenter - if your operation keeps growing, you'll likely need to > consider real datacenter space at some point. From a cost perspective, > it's just not feasible to think individual small companies can even > come close to the level of security, reliability, connectivity, and > environmental conditions offered by a professional datacenter. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130625/e953e2d8/attachment.html>