I've been using them in a small but important-to-me way continuously since 2008, and I have occasionally forgotten the service needed maintaining at all - at one point I forgot to pay them for an embarrassingly long time after a credit card expired, and they kept my storage going for me until I finally got myself in order. Please don't try that.
(My first contact with them was in 2007, to ask whether they supported pushing directly from git - the answer was no, though they added the feature a few years later - a bit ironically, I've never used it)
We just added git-lfs / LFS support. So now, when you do things like:
ssh [email protected] "git clone --mirror git://github.com/LabAdvComp/UDR.git github/udr"
So instead I have to use restic, which re-implements many features of ZFS and this also feels wrong.
We support encrypted zfs[1][2][3] and raw-send, etc.
The pricing is the same but there is a 1TB minimum because we need to give you your own VM (bhyve) and we have to burn an ipv4 address for you, etc.
[1] https://www.rsync.net/products/zfs.html
[2] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/12/rsync...
[3] https://www.servethehome.com/automating-proxmox-ve-zfs-offsi...
Is this still true for these special ZFS enabled accounts?
My solution to the `zfs destroy` risk is to make my backups pull-based, where rsync.net connects inbound to my production server, and rsync.net specifies the necessary commands on the production box to grab the raw encrypted streams. That eliminates the ability of an attacker that is on the production server to run arbitrary commands at rsync.net.
There is still a small risk of data destruction if an attacker gets your rsync.net credentials, but those can be protected via off-line storage and secured workstations, which works pretty well.
(you could route the ssh traffic similarly based on login)
I've seen several people report using OpenZFS encryption on FBSD on various mailing lists, so I'm 95% sure it's not secretly broken on there.
On the laptop-front, I find myself drifting towards a similar setup to John. I have a hefty workstation laptop but the battery life is dire and it weighs a ton, so I pretty much just run it as a headless machine next to my server now. I'm planning on picking up a Pinebook Pro as an "outdoors" machine to just remote in. I also find myself extremely unwilling to arse about swapping multiple machines on my monitors so being able to keep my work machine separate and secure but operate it from my desktop is a nice compromise.