From the category archives:
RAID5, generally speaking, is a bad idea. Unless you have some very specific needs, RAID5 increases complexity, is more prone to hardware failure and administration errors, and does not automatically back itself up. If two RAID5 member drives fail at the same time, *all* your data is SOL. Individual drives, such as a bunch of [...]
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This post is originally from April 2007 and never got published. Here’s hoping I’ll never have to use it again. ~paws
Take a deep breath and relax. This is not bad luck. This is God’s retribution for your failure to back up your data. You are a bad person and you deserve this. Fortunately, there is [...]
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One of the things I haven’t mentioned before is the exciting history of onpaws.com. The progress has steadily slid from lame, slow hardware to unreliable hardware to the current oldie…not to even mention the constant drop in hosting quality. However, many things about it have been free, and even educational. The benefits significantly outweighed the [...]
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This guy gets it exactly right. The complete freedom behind the Internet is exactly what makes it so appealing, and I truly hope it stays that way forever.
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