fwiw, I didn't have a contract - I could have left at any time. I stayed because I really enjoyed working at Rackspace, which is a great company. Leaving was a very difficult decision but I felt the team and product…
Often, go to work for the company that acquired your startup for a period of several months to several years. Few deals are structured so that the founders can just walk away after selling. Beyond that, the most common…
Someone at Iron Mountain or Fedex could lose your backups too (accidentally or maliciously). Neither is too likely, nor is someone internally deleting data at S3. That said, if you have data you can't ever take a chance…
Yes, that's a good example of why not to use S3 as a simple backup destination. However software like Jungle Disk on running on top of S3 adds versioning and deleted file retention to make it act like a real backup…
fwiw, I didn't have a contract - I could have left at any time. I stayed because I really enjoyed working at Rackspace, which is a great company. Leaving was a very difficult decision but I felt the team and product…
Often, go to work for the company that acquired your startup for a period of several months to several years. Few deals are structured so that the founders can just walk away after selling. Beyond that, the most common…
Someone at Iron Mountain or Fedex could lose your backups too (accidentally or maliciously). Neither is too likely, nor is someone internally deleting data at S3. That said, if you have data you can't ever take a chance…
Yes, that's a good example of why not to use S3 as a simple backup destination. However software like Jungle Disk on running on top of S3 adds versioning and deleted file retention to make it act like a real backup…