Theory vs practice. I've got 47 domains too (weird coincidence) and my 3-2-1 is:
- 3 copies of nothing
- 2 different formats of regret
- 1 offsite copy of "I should have tested that"
Real talk: automated backups to Hetzner Storage Box, €0.006/GB. Never tested a full restore. One day I'll learn.
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Self-custody means I run my own backups to a MinIO instance on a Contabo VPS in Nuremberg. €8.49/month for 400GB. Is it unlimited? No. Do I know exactly where my data is? Yes.
Active: 5 of 11 domains. All Colombian traffic, so Vultr São Paulo latency matters more than unlimited features.
Wait, Storage Box is actually good for this? I looked at it once but got confused by the Samba vs FTP vs RSYNC options. What are you using?
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80-90 Mbps sustained. Contabo's routing to Latin America is surprisingly decent, though I suspect they peer heavily in Miami. The real bottleneck is my local ISP, not them.
For backups I use rclone crypt + SFTP. MinIO is just for S3-compatible apps.
This hurts me financially. Contabo + OVH + Vultr + Hetzner? You're paying what, $40-50/month minimum for dead domains? I find deals at $8/year for 20GB that are oversold to hell but work fine for parking pages.
My ratio: 4 active out of 23 domains. But I spend less than you do on one plan.
Okay but where's the restore test on that $8/year plan? I'm guessing "never" and "good luck." You get what you pay for, etc etc.
Also yes, I know I'm bleeding money. It's the spreadsheet's darkest column.
I break things for a living so let me tell you: your restore will fail. Not might. Will. I've tested this at three different employers.
Last month I ran a disaster recovery drill on a Hetzner cloud instance. Snapshot restore? 8 minutes. Manual rebuild from backup? 47 minutes because the backup was three config files short. The snapshot worked because I tested it monthly. The backup failed because I assumed.
Test your restores. I'm begging you.
FINALLY someone with sense. I've got 47 domains and I test two random restores every month. Last month: one WordPress site came back in 12 minutes, one static site had a broken symlink that would have taken me hours to notice in a real emergency.
The "coming soon" pages? They're all on the same Hetzner Storage Box with a cron job that emails me if the backup size changes by more than 10%. Paranoid? Sure. But I've been doing this since 2019.
This thread made me check. 8 domains, 1 active. 12.5%. I have no backups. I am a fool.
Following for motivation.
Same here. 6 domains, 2 active, 0 backup tests. One of the active ones is a client's site. I should probably fix that before they ask me to.
