Alex Kretzschmar

Go take a look.

What you do is you send them a hard drive.

and they put it into a slot in one of their servers, I think in California, but don't quote me on that, and you pay them $10 a month per slot that you occupy.

So if you want 20 terabytes of off-site backup, you send them a 20 terabyte hard drive.

It can be direct shipped from Amazon or Best Buy or wherever.

They'll rack the drive for you, and then they'll give you an IPv4 address and a VM, and then you use that as your ZLFS replication target off-site for $10 a month.

Job done.

There just aren't many alternatives.

I mean, I know Butter gets a bit of a hard time, perhaps unfairly, but ZFS at this point, really, for me, there's nothing that comes close in terms of the...

the reliability, the development trajectory that it has with the iX systems support and Clara systems up with Alan Jude in Canada as well.

TrueNAS, of course, has been industry standard for sort of normal people for a long time.

I say, you know, non-enterprise deployments of like iSCSI storage and anything you want to do for a small medium business, whatever, like TrueNAS is the answer.

I just can't think of anything better.

Like, BcacheFS is kind of promising, but then there was that whole drama recently with Kent Overstreet and Linus Torvalds and the Linux kernel mailing lists and development trying to sneak some weirdness there.

I'm unfamiliar.

Oh, go look it up.

It's a whole tranche of... Stuff.

Drama, yeah.

Oh, gosh.

That's what we need is more drama.