Re: Remote Backup Service

>From: Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>Newsgroups: misc.entrepreneurs.moderated
>Date: 22 Aug 2003 04:52:31 GMT

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>I am thinking of starting a remote backup service for small 
>businesses and was wondering if anyone has ever done this type 
>of business before. If so, I would like to know if the 
>business was profitable, and any advise on software/hardware.
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>TIA
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>Andy

A quick search of http://www.google.com/ will tell you it is beign done.

But if you considder the enormity of the problem of building a RBS, you simply
cannot do it in your garage.

The servers ,air conditioning, dust filtering, Primary Power System, Secondary
Power System, the electrical engineering, fire supression, and the secure
building to house it all, could cost millions before you had your first
customer.

Wow, this is maybe a 20,000 sqft (or more) concrete tiltup building or better
yet a solid concrete-lined earth-sheltered bunker, built into a hillside, with
T1, would need to be near a telco hub, possibly an old missile silo, or
government facility, if one was available.  I would use a preexisting facility
or build my own. Something that won't burn and would shield against Electro
Magnetic Interference.

See the sites at:
http://cryptome.org/
http://www.cryptome.org/eyeball.htm

Site "R" Raven Rock is a good example.