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I have been using CrashPlan for backing up my huge photo library, and it has been working great so far.

The main benefit compared to the others is the "unlimited" cloud backup space if you sign up for their cloud service.

The Java implementation of BankID hasn't been used for years on any of the sites I use. At least on the Mac, Nexus Personal is used for storing certificates and has a plugin for all major browsers. There is even an app for iOS, and it works really well in my opinion.

Client certificates should work in all modern browsers. We use them daily in Chrome, Safari, Mobile Safari, IE and Firefox.

I set up a Norco 4224 for backup purposes and plugged in a couple of 3TB WD green drives, and have not had any issues at all. Maybe the WD green drives don't require as much current as these ones?

Thanks, I greatly appreciate the link! The deadlock scenario does not look good, however I think it won't be a problem in this particular application. But since a single server easily handles the load, I will definitely take the safe route and not split the writes, and just use the other db nodes as failover and for reading.

I was initially set on using NDB cluster to provide failover, but the table constraints (tables can't be too wide) means that there would have to be code changes. I recently set up and tried Galera, and everything "just worked". The application currently uses standard MySQL 5 with Innodb, and going with Galera would mean that no code change would be necessary.

It just sounded too good to be true though, so I just wanted to know that people actually use this in production. The application handles payments, so corrupted or rows not committing on all nodes would be a huge problem.

I have started trying out Galera Cluster[1] for MySQL, to replace a single MySQL server node with 3-4 nodes, all synchronously replicated. This should hopefully solve the problem with having to split writes to the master and reads to the slaves, and provide redundancy in case of a server going down.

Does anyone have any experience with Galera in a production environment? Is the setup in this article preferable to that?

[1] http://codership.com/content/using-galera-cluster

If you are into GTD, an email workflow for handling email could be much more flexible. Example when going through your inbox:

1. Respond to/do anything that can be done in two minutes and archive the email. (It helps if you are maintaining your inbox at zero.)

2. If it takes longer than a few minutes to do, send it off to your GTD app for processing as an action step, waiting for or something else, and archive the email.

Postbox does that to some extent. See screenshots:

http://postbox-inc.com/graphics/screenshots

I live I'm Sweden and my 100/100Mbit full duplex connection is part of my rent, so basically I get it for free, but that is one of the perks living in a large city. And yes, I really do get the full bandwidth all the time.

Smaller cities usually have decent connections over DSL or Cable though, so bandwidth is usually not a problem anywhere you go in this country.

Not entirely sure that's correct either. One could use a Hardware Security Module, such as the Thales nShield Connect[1], which will keep the private keys secure (at least in theory).

[1] http://www.thales-esecurity.com/Products/Hardware%20Security...