Tag Archives: Data
A dropbox in the cloud
Posted by on November 17, 2008
I usually prefer to keep my data in a cloud somewhere, or at least in a treehouse or something else which isn’t local disk. Anything not having to depend on sitting in front of the “right” computer. Currently the treehouse where most of my data lives is a VPS I rent in a datacenter. More [...]
No nonsens providers
Posted by on April 2, 2008
When it comes to online services I most definitely prefer no nonsense providers. I don’t want any specially designed tools or extravagant web pages, I merely want a basic service done well. Two great examples are the DNS provider primary.se and the offsite storage rsync.net. They give you a quality service accessed by standard protocols. [...]
Subversion as a Distributed file system
Posted by on March 29, 2008
The majority of my private data are storied in subversion repositories. This is not because I write a lot of code, which I don’t. Neither do I have any special need to control different versions of the pictures in my photo gallery. No, in my case it’s simply an attempt to gain the effects of [...]