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I don't use EC2 over it. I host a site with a million+ pageviews per month with >250GiB of user data and I host it with Voxility. It used to be on AWS.

Edit: FWIW, I also don't use dropbox. I use rsync and a VPS.



Out of curiosity, who is your VPS provider?


Digital Ocean. It doesn't really matter because I handle crypto myself, and don't offer trust to the VPS provider.


I've been meaning to do something like that myself. Did you use off the shelf tools for crypto, or did you write something yourself?


Yeah, I'm using gpg.


Would you be willing to do a little write up or make a blog post about your process or something?

I've been meaning to setup encrypted backups for a while. At the moment mine are all unencrypted, but are stored on hardware under my control that I have direct physical access too.

I'd like to use a convenient offsite storage provider, but have no interest in trusting them with data. Tarsnap would be ideal if it was actually Free Software, but the current license is a deal breaker.

Already use gpg in my workflow for some documents and password management. Do you literally just tar and then gpg the result or is it something more involved? It seems that would be fairly bandwidth heavy.


Yes, I literally just tar and gpg the result. I could sort out something more elegant and do a writeup. Keep an eye on http://drewdevault.com.


Looking forward to it :)


> Tarsnap would be ideal if it was actually Free Software, but the current license is a deal breaker.

I looked at it from the angle that it is basically a 1-person company. The bus factor is too high! :)




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