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Let this be a lesson to chose your hosting company wisely. You can't always predict such things, but I think if you pick a big name, with a good business reputa
by jvandenbroeck 15y ago
Let this be a lesson to chose your hosting company wisely. You can't always predict such things, but I think if you pick a big name, with a good business reputation, you'll minimize the risk. They might do checks for abuse and have plans in place to keep everything up when something goes wrong.
Eg. I can't imagine that if you host with http://www.rackspace.com/ http://www.rackspace.com/ your website would be down if you didn't do anything illegal.
DigitalOne's site is also down http://www.digitalone.com/ http://www.digitalone.com/ so they don't even have a backup server for their own website..
- oscardelben 15y agoAll big names were once small. I doubt pinboard didn't choose their hosting company wisely, although I get what you're saying. Troubles and down times happen to anyone, it's how good you can deal with them that makes a difference, not the hosting company you choose.
- jvandenbroeck 15y agoOfcourse, there's no blame on pinboard, they handled it amazing! And the webhosting company was around for 7 years if I googled it correctly - but I do think there's a big difference between webhosting company's. Suppose DigitalOne rents space in a datacenter and has no one on-site (exept for staff from the datacenter). I can imagine that if the FBI enters there "we need servers from IP x.x.x.x and y.y.y.y immediately - that the people from the datacenter just point to the servers from DigitalOne "oh that's in their range".. Ofcourse that's just speculation if you don't know how it really went down - never the less, I would chose webhosting carefully if your business depends on it:)
- idlewords 15y agohttp://www.eweek.com/c/a/Cloud-Computing/Final-Thoughts-on-the-FiveDay-AWS-Outage-236462/ http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Cloud-Computing/Final-Thoughts-on-t... Shit happens.