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It's always good to have your backup off-site. If something happens to DigitalOcean servers, your backups will be gone too.
by batuhanicoz 10y ago
It's always good to have your backup off-site. If something happens to DigitalOcean servers, your backups will be gone too.
- ryanSrich 10y agoI imagine DO has some contingency plan to prevent both your server and the backup being down at the same time.
- batuhanicoz 10y agoWell, most backups are for unseeable events. It's your choice to trust DO's contingency plans but I for one would like to put my eggs in multiple baskets, depends of the value of said eggs of course. I wouldn't set-up off-site backups for a personal website for example.
- funkyy 10y agoUnless bug in their system, hack attack or human error deletes all droplets from your account. And yes, I have heard of stories like that from other hosting companies where a human error caused the account to be deleted and data removed.
- j_jochem 10y agoDO does that too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11036554 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11036554
- schwede 10y agoThat's nice in theory, but it's better to not to have all your eggs in one basket.
- adamb_ 10y agoIt also protects yourself in the event your relationship with DigitalOean goes sour (e.g. CC expires, they're unable to notify, account gets deleted.)