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Sure, but how many foods are we talking here? This sounds like probably <20 rows on a sheet, with columns for ingredients.

Tracking a single cat doesn’t seem like DB work

Why wouldn’t a simple spreadsheet and some pivot tables work?

There’s not much cost with S3 object. It’s just a file system in Linux, and replication is a protocol standard.

Use object storage for media and backups, then use s3 replication to put a copy somewhere else.

If you have enough users and systems that this is a problem then you should be centrally managing it. I get that you want to inventory what you have, but I’m saying that you’re probably doing it wrong right now, and your ask is solved by using a central IAM system.

It sounds like you’re probably looking for some kind of SAML compliant IAM system, where credentials and access can be centrally managed. Active Directory and LDAP are examples of that.

Well, 1ms of latency is 300km of distance, so unless you have something really misconfigured or overloaded, or you’re across the country, latency shouldn’t be an issue. 10-20ms is normally the high water mark for most synchronous replication, so you can go a long way before a protocol like DNS becomes an issue.

I find a lot of stuff is using docker compose, which works with Podman, but using straight docker is easier, especially if it’s nothing web-facing

Yes, but you don’t need Kubernetes from the start.

Use object storage and enable immutability for the backups. If they compromise your site they shouldn’t be able to delete your backups unless they have the NAS password too.

Script that checks your external IP and updates your DNS provider via API.

Intel had that rep before AMD back in the P4c days

Servers have had memory mirroring as a feature for years. This seems like a cool extension of that technology. It would be an advantage in some systems where scaling out isn’t an option and single node availability needs to be as high as possible.

Stanford is literally in Silicon Valley. It’s no shock that the University that cranks out tech bros and is funded by the same group doesn’t want anyone reporting on anything unethical.

TL;DR: It was the bean counters

Erasure coding may be a better option than RAID.

An HP EliteDesk G4 mini desktop Is around that much

You can buy large second hand enterprise hard disks for relatively cheap. 20TB disks are like 250 bucks.

Restore file -> md5sum against original -> delete -> repeat with another file.

Script it up!