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I'm kind of curious though - what can you do as a non-technical user to prevent this? Let's say you're on shared hosting - you don't know what object storage is
by ev1 5y ago
I'm kind of curious though - what can you do as a non-technical user to prevent this? Let's say you're on shared hosting - you don't know what object storage is, and you upload your PHP themes via FTP (or at best, FTP+implicit SSL, but the default is plaintext).
Your backup is probably downloading something over FTP, or creating a backup in cPanel/DirectAdmin/whatever shared hosting panel.
Your host doesn't allow SSH. This is the hypermajority of shared hosting.
(My apologies, I didn't mean that directed toward you, it was more of a general "this is HN, not everybody will self host GPG backups on immutable redundant cloud storage")
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- sova 5y ago"One Way Synchronization" with DropBox might do the trick [https://www.multcloud.com/tutorials/dropbox-one-way-sync-1234.html https://www.multcloud.com/tutorials/dropbox-one-way-sync-123...]
- jszymborski 5y agoHmm, in this case I might have a local script running on a cronjob or Scheduled Task to FTP(S) into the server and copy the files on the server locally. You can run this on a desktop or a raspi if one knows how to use it. It sounds from the blog like they already had automated off-sites, which makes me feel like they do have (perhaps limited) SSH access? Maybe it's just a cPanel deal though. No troubles, didn't take it personally and hope I didn't come off that way :) I remember as a teenager subscribing to dirt cheap hosting that only allowed uploads via a portal (:S) and trying to upload phpbb file by file, so I get it ahaha... passion often outstrips means/ability :P
- ev1 5y agoHaha, I remember uploading an archive and then uploading a PHP file containing exec("tar zxf phpbb.tar.gz"); and then visiting it in a browser ;)
- jszymborski 5y agoGenius! You would have blown my teenage mind :P