> the Amazon/Google sysadmins are sharp, they apply all patches, and they have procedures in place to make sure they don't do anything incredibly stupid. I sha

> the Amazon/Google sysadmins are sharp, they apply all patches, and they have procedures in place to make sure they don't do anything incredibly stupid. I shared that viewpoint when I was hosting my forum on InMotion Hosting. Until they first applied an update that resulted in Apache returning all PHP files as plaintext files, revealing my SQL login credentials from the phpBB config file (thankfully I had remote DB login disabled.) And then a few weeks later, badly corrupting my entire SQL database and not being able to restore it after. I doubt Amazon/Google could be as incompetent as InMotion was, but all the same, don't trust that just because it's a company that specializes in something that you're safe from abject stupidity.