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— SpamCop.

It reminds me a bit of Dwarf Fortress, and it’s author.

In its current form, Tarsnap appeals to a very small minority of crypto-nerds, and Patrick’s article points out nicely that it is not suitable for “serious business” for a variety of reasons.

Hobby admins (such as myself) get more than enough security by using a tool like “Duplicity”, and there you have a broad range of cloud storage backends to choose from (some of them even have recurring billing!). It’s also easier to install than Tarsnap, and just as easy to use.

De-duplication also sounds a lot better on paper than it is in reality. Sure, it’s nice to have, and pretty much essential if you have large folders of video files that you constantly rename, but seriously, at the rates Amazon and Google charge for storage, who even cares?

Tarsnap just doesn’t cover any reasonably-sized market *at all* at the moment.

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I think you missed the tone of the article and the relationship that Colin and Patrick have… Patrick says he loves Tarsnap but he sees ways it could be (in his opinion) better for customers and better for Colin.

He’s not complaining that Colin should change it for Patrick. He’s saying Colin should change it for Colon and perhaps the customers.

Personally, I think many of the suggested changes would be good, but Colin clearly likes what he is doing, so perhaps Colin could offer Tarsnap as another rebranded product completely separate from Tarsnap and not mess with Tarsnap at all. Just create a name, (Pansrat for this silly exercise ) logo and offer the same service as Tarsnap with the different price structure. Don’t make it commonly known that you are the same people and just see…

A. Does Colin enjoy running Pansrat?
B. Does Colin make more/enough/whatever money with Pansrat?
C. Does Colin end up feeling good about Pansrat and what it offers it’s new breed of customers?

Tom Steele

I get the Enterprise is where the money is, but I can’t afford Enterprise money for my “not yet really earning much revenue” business. It’s refreshing when companies offer $10/month plans for just starting out. (Thank you Hootsuite and Buffer.)

I hope this “$10/month customers are bloodsuckers who are not worth the hassle” doesn’t infect the industry much more than it is. Sounds like you yourself use some of these companies in your business.

The suggested design screams of polished crap that focuses more on marketing than function which i’m personally very tired of and avoid in products that i purchase.

The segmented pricing model is also something that i’ve been actively avoiding from other backup services. I personally don’t know what my usage is going to be, and the idea of paying up front for 50$ isn’t interesting to me, as i’d risk filling the backup up, making future backups fail.

Also, i like the picodollar pricing model, it seems honest and to the point of practical implementation, something that i love in software.

There aren’t many services like tarsnap out there, and some of the changes you’re suggesting would move his business closer to all those other backup services out there that i’ve actively chosen not to use.

I do however agree that deleting the repo after a 7 day period is a bit strong, and an automated billing model would be very useful.

I certainly got a little worked up while reading this, I felt like I wanted to yell out in agreement.

This article may be about Colin, but its really not about Colin…