JungleDave
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16 years ago
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on: "Jungle Dave", Founder of Jungle Disk, Leaves
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 were more than able to carry on without me.
JungleDave
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17 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What to do after selling startup?
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 path it to start another startup. It's addictive!
JungleDave
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17 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Do you trust Amazon S3 or Mosso Cloudfiles not to lose or corrupt your data?
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 to lose, don't store it in only one place ever - not just on S3, not just on a USB drive, not just in off-site physical storage. Keep at least two copies, maybe more.
One of the things we're working on is allowing you to backup to multiple cloud providers - so even in the unlikely event of a catastrophic cloud failure you'd have other copies available.
JungleDave
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17 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Do you trust Amazon S3 or Mosso Cloudfiles not to lose or corrupt your data?
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 system.
Having a local backup is great too, but that won't protect you from fire, flood, or theft in many cases.
