Came here to say this same thing. An inexpensive solar panel and handheld transistor solves this problem.

You can talk to your neighboring towns, other operators, and [in a real emergency, FCC regs out the window] anyone with a FM/AM radio turned on. If you have a appropriate antenna and power, you can talk to the other side of the planet. Why don't more people get into amateur radio? It's terribly practical.

If you don't mind getting the FCC at your doorstep, you could even transmit to the ISS and complain about your local emergency :)

Have you tried dealing with major transitions in a rolling release? e.g. sysvinit to systemd or upstart? Non-SELinux to SELinux? Rolling releases do not(or historically have failed) to manage this gracefully. Remember when Arch switched to systemd? Fun times....

I get it though; glad it's working for you. I love rolling releases as well [at home], and it beats the grind of a major version upgrade - hoping your /home plays nicely. It's also appropriate you mentioned "non-enterprise". You can imagine it's difficult for a software company to say "we will support product X on distribution Y for N years" when Y is changing with a rolling release cycle.

EncFS fits really nicely on dropbox. It avoids the whole every-change-causes-full-resync problem of using TrueCrypt.

Of course, that may just alert the NSA to your presence faster when you have a big glob of data they can't get at. Somewhere, someone picks up a $5 wrench and starts driving in your direction...

Clonebox is fine for home use...it's not enterprise grade though, please don't represent that it is to the droves of slashdot readers.

This is why Clonebox and similar solutions are not "enterprise grade":
1) no deduplication
2) no media lifecycle management
3) no encryption keys that you control
4) you do not control *where* the data lives

You said "enterprise grade" - reason #4 alone clobbers that assertion.

If you want to get "enterprise grade", please consider backup systems aimed at, well, *enterprises*.

Some examples for you:
1) Bacula (open source, requires an IQ above a demented bee to admin)
2) Symantec Netbackup (expensive, IQ required)
3) Commvault (expensive, minimal IQ required)

Clonebox may work *great* for you and your business - by all means keep using it! Nothing wrong with plugging it either, but please don't plug it as "enterprise grade". Somewhere some new-hire slashdotter may take that as gospel and cost him or herself their job in the future - or at the very least look like foolish in front of their peers when they parrot it.

I'm sorry for this hardship - I hope you come out on the other side O.K.

Normally (and probably) you would get a lot of flames for a post like this. What I take away from it is you are a working person like the rest of us - you aren't a big wig bitching because you don't get to have your caviar and luxury car service to take you to the golf course. It's a shame that the people that get affected by this are ordinary folks [like you]. I doubt very much that the people who made this decision will feel any impact from it - the only "trickle down" I see is the trickle down crappy deal to ordinary folks like you...it's a shame all the way around. Best of luck man, you are getting a bum deal.

This isn't a flame...but try implementing your idea in an easy mode language like Python (or any highly expressive language). Your time investment won't be large - and if it works...perfect! Then you have a proof of concept and you can refine it to death, and then port it to a compiled language.

You could host it on a visible site like github, sourceforge, or savannah to try and attract folks to help you if you are short on time as well. Time is probably the biggest barrier I have to implementing new software ideas.

Best post yet! if you want to be DIY - then put on your big boy pants and DIY. Kudos to jones_supa

If you like DenyHosts - look at fail2ban. It has all the functionality of the older DenyHosts project and more. You can ban based on more than failed ssh logins - but any type of logfile imaginable. With customized responses to X login failures per Y time units for Z service. You'll find it in the repo's for all debian/rhel based distributions.

What are you talking about? Let's take it point by point to battle the FUD.

Large businesses using linux: Walmart, IBM, Redhat, Amazon, Rackspace, it goes on and on...their ERP software is web based running on Linux.

You realize Active Directory is a *broken* implementation of LDAP - something that has nothing to do with Windows? The enterprise world uses IPA, Radius, and OpenLDAP. It's light years ahead of Active Directory, and actually follows RFC's(Active Directory does not).

There is no point and click "management" of Linux. You actually have to know what you are doing. You don't get to buy a for dummies book or take a night class to be rewarded with an "admin" job. A good example in some large(1000+ employees) enterprises I've worked for is deploying [Linux] login scripts via directory services. It allows control and lockdown of user settings and permissions in ways Active Directory cannot hope to. You mentioned Puppet also - that's a server management thing though, not a user management thing. It's good you mentioned it though...where is the Windows equivalent of that? Powershell? VBScript? Doubtful.

The world is changing man, typical users are not baby boomers anymore that have a limited computing skill set. They are intelligent, capable of learning new technology. If they aren't - they get replaced by people that *can* do those things, because those things are in the interest of the business. Stop the FUD.

Someone please fact check before publishing summaries...Ethernet "packets" don't exist. Learn your networking 101 please.

(the segment of data is a FRAME, and may contain packet data)

Education for the win... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_frame

Anyone else reminded of the Wise Old Bird from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minor_The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_characters#The_Wise_Old_Bird

A web server should not have a web server required for configuring said web server. What type of circular logic are you playing with?

On that note, what web server *does* have what you are describing?

Are you sure that after you read the facts - you come to that conclusion? I suppose if you have a Freightliner brand semi truck, and a Acme123 Diesel Engine product as the engine - you say you have a Acme123 truck?

You also know you can run Debian(and friends) on a Linux kernel, FreeBSD kernel, or Hurd kernel - with the same user land tools? That's because of GNU! Any of those kernels on their own would be crippled without the incredible suite of userland tools GNU provides. The idea that you don't want to give credit to a core and very important piece of technology that you use each and every moment in Linux is sad.

That's not a feature, and I don't recall it ever being advertised as one. You get to decide which zone and which datacenter(datacenters contain multiple zones) your instances/data lives in. If you want to replicate those to other zones and datacenters, it would be a very good idea. Amazon can't automagically do that for you though, and does not advertise that it can.

Yea I saw that from another reply to my post...totally missed the ball there :) I was thinking about GEO.