The cloud is just someone else's computer.
"the majority of our customers have thus lost all data with us"
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I don't really understand the decision for not paying, unless they were already getting bankrupt
I was thinking that too. It's only 6 BTC. I assume a company like this could afford that or at least get a loan to afford it. Otherwise, their business is over.
If I was their customer, I would be crushed that all my data was gone. But I would be livid if I found out that my data could be recovered (along with all the other customers) for a mere 6 BTC, yet the company chose not to.
They should have just quietly paid the ransom, restored their systems, and issued a generic "data center outage" apology notice to their customers.
So.. any self-hosted guides for noobs lol.
But really built a new computer and my old one needs a job or two. Think I will start with a NAS. Then maybe self-hosted bitwarden
I don't have any guides, but this is a good start. Check out /n/selfhosted, follow the #FOSSFriday hashtag, and and a NAS is a great start.
I can chime in here. I self-host a lot of my apps using Cloudron.
Super simple to install on a spare computer, it makes it easy to deploy free and open-source software. Here is a video I made on it:
For apps that are not on Cloudron and need a Linux server, you can use Proxmox. Essentially, it lets you run multiple servers in one computer.
Proxmox is more technical, so start with Cloudron.
BACKUPS
Cloudron has several backup options, but I use the S3 option. I installed MinIO (open source S3 file storage software) on a second computer, which Cloudron then connects to weekly and pushes a backup of itself to. I made a video about MinIO here:
This should get you started. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.
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They should contact BitFinex for the playbook on issuimg a token for losses/debt, start leveraged trading and all that jazz
I have always thought people are overconfident about their data being secure by putting it in "the cloud". AWS goes out all the time and then all the eggs are in one basket and multiple services go down with it.
Agree. My fiat job has services on premise, but also some in Azure and AWS. It's best to spread your data centers around IMO.