cloud server

[Fairlight]

If you're talking about keeping the data local to the VPS and just letting
people ssh in, that should be fine.  You're only going to have performance
issues if you're hosting in location A and storing in location B.

As for a VPS solution, I can tell you that -respectable- vendors are
shutting down even ssh access.  My VPS provider, ViUX, had shut out ssh
after a series of breaches of customers' weak passwords.  I had to force
them to re-enable it, and then they wanted to use a non-standard port, and
-then-, after I convinced them to put it back to the regular port, they
wanted to firewall it at the perimeter to only specific IP#s.  I use
tcpwrappers, so the point is moot.  They set it up for me, but only because
I've been with them over seven years.  A new customer would not get that
special provisioning.

Luck finding a VPS provider which both offers what you need, and is secure,
and which doesn't suck in some way.

I guess you could try Amazon.

mark->

On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 01:00:38PM -0400, Jose Lerebours via Filepro-list thus spoke:
> On 03/18/2016 12:48 PM, Fairlight via Filepro-list wrote:
> >On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 08:22:00AM -0700, Bill Campbell via Filepro-list thus spoke:
> >>As far as which service to use, the only one I have experience
> >>with is Amazon EC2 with Linux VMs.  Setting up a single VM is
> >>pretty easy, and the costs seem reasonable.
> >Just keep in mind that EC2 is not flawless.  Wnen people have gotten ticked
> >off at Netflix, their servers residing on EC2 have been the target of DDoS
> >attacks, which ends up taking much of EC2 with it.
> >
> >The bigger the target, the less you want to be standing alongside them.
> >
> >mark->
> So, it appears that there will never be a full proof solution
> 
> If you self host, you have the problem of redundancy, speed, backup,
> hardware cost and maintenance, you give up a room in your house
> (lol), etc., etc., etc.
> 
> If you use services as those already mentioned, you have to deal
> with their "issues" such as attacks and anything else thus far not
> mentioned.
> 
> There is no perfect scenario - what then is the "best" scenario?
> 
> Are those of us using filePro condemned to "self hosting" and
> dealing with all that comes with it?  Is there really no viable
> solution to "get it out of here and let some one else deal with it"?
> 
> Perhaps, fpTech has an untapped market here.  My client has all
> sorts of stuff in his office but just got hit with a fire in his
> area which brought down his operation.  If he have had a redundancy
> in place, his clients would have had means to access his application
> and business could have gone on as usual - Heck, he could have had
> his employees stay home and do their work via web access.
> 
> So really, how much benefit is there in "self hosting" versus "VMs"
> these days?
> 
> 
> 
> 
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