Originally Posted by
myfrogger
Good point and this is one of the why I pay the ~$15-20/yr to host my own domain and email addresses. It looks more professional and I eliminate the possibility of someone taking the email address away from me (or changing it). Of course no one should send anything over email that they wouldn't put on a postcard so message "security" is not really an issue when it comes to email.
Backing up 200gb worth of data using a 1mbps upload speed at maximum theoretical speeds under ideal conditions, it would take 19 days to complete the transfer. In reality it would take even longer, if it was even possible for the two computers to complete the transfer without timing out.
I disagree that encryption nullifies the issue. It reduces it, sure, but there are thousands of types of encryption techniques; some being far superior than others.
Presuming you are on a fixed IP and then running your own box to host the web site, you are in fact putting yourself at the same level of risk of not staying up to date with patches, holes, etc.
If you are having a company host your site for you then you are back to square one. You are putting your data on a 3rd party computer.
As far as traffic goes, to transfer 200GB of data w/no compression is crazy. Most files can be compressed down to 80%. Excel, Docs, XML streams get compressed into the 90% range. This makes transfer much smaller. If two computers fail because of comm. issue or packet loss, they simply transfer from the point of last packet that was good. Similar to the days of Zmodem instead of XModem for protocol. Those days were horrific compared to what we have today. Finally, with compression like RAR files, you can literally miss a whole file and rebuild it.
Regarding encryption, that is my point. With so many out there, you can choose to do a two level encryption. The first level is your encryption method and the second the encryption method the company selects to use. If you do it correctly it would take experts a lot of time and energy to break it. I don't think they would be interested in Joe Blow's personal files.... I myself use PGP. It is one of the strongest IMO.
I just remember this saying, if you are running from a bear, it doesn't matter how fast you run. The only thing that matters is if you can outrun the guy next to you. If your data is protected and the next guy isn't, he is not going to try to break into yours.