The current monthly cost is totally affordable and in the case I need to restore I’m not facing any additional charge… Now, I’m backing up a bit over 1TB - depending on the amount of data you might come to a different conclusion.
Oracle Cloud has serious issues around service and feature pairity, but if you can work around those, it's a lot cheaper.
They're killing such a great innovation that no one can replace in the past 15 years and not likely for another 10 years.
But thanks to Ubuntu I can still use it with relative confidence.
What is that? Not having much luck: https://www.google.com/search?q=Rathole+software
"rathole proxy" search will find it, vs "rathole software".
> "A secure, stable and high-performance reverse proxy for NAT traversal, written in Rust"
It compares itself to these other big projects:
In Romania, etc. you're looking more at like 15-25k.
Americans don't know how good they have it.
I've worked with many an offshore team, and have yet to find myself on a call with anyone over 40.
For one, the programming demographics are extremely skewed towards younger people. There was almost no programming being taught or practiced in 1980s or 1990s Romania (and the same is true for all of the former Eastern bloc basically), and then there was a huge burst in the 2000s as the country decided to push this particular segment (even today, you don't pay the 16% income tax on your salary as a programmer with a relevant college degree). Overall this means that there are far, far more 30-ish programmers working in Romania today than 50-ish ones. I believe the same is true to one extent or another in most of the formerly Eastern bloc countries.
The second reason is less rosy. Big outsourcing firms, which make up at least a plurality of the programming market, have little need for experts. Their hiring and retention practices greatly emphasize cheap junior hires, whom they don't want to retain past some point. They will usually have a handful of seniors around for the more advanced contracts, but they don't have any reason to keep around a workforce that gains in experience. This is mostly greedy but also partly rational - unlike a traditional business where you get to accumulate valuable context as you gain experience, in outsourcing you will rarely spend more than a few years on the same project, so the advantage of having been around the company for years and years is much less.
Basically everyone that studied something like computer science in the 90s were electrical engineers and the computer stuff was barebones, it was more hardware. Software development like we know it wasn't a thing back then so people started late compared to the west.
I have a dev in his 40s and a sysadmin in his 50s as co-workers but that's rare because of the things you mentioned. With that much experience, high demand and low competition at that level they're going to have cushy jobs that they want to have and won't be sitting at crappy outsource shops.
Either way, it's easy to hire an extra mid-to-senior engineer or two for the costs of many cloud services.
Interesting technology though.