#198: Backing up 170 Petabytes of customer data, with Simon Bennett of SnapShooter
Bootstrapped
English - October 15, 2021 07:56 - 32 minutes - 29.5 MBBusiness Technology bootstrapping technology software business Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: #197: Life is unpredictable, and a pricing experiment
Simon runs SnapShooter, a service that performs scheduled server backups. We discuss:
why backups is NOT a dull businesshow the pandemic pushed him to make the jump to full-timecharging his first customer just $2/month - and quickly learning to charge much morea "I did a rm -rf on the wrong server" storyLinks:
SnapShooterSimon on Twitter