I remember being told years back with Digitalocean to not rely on their backups by one of the people that wrote their system. This made sense to me as they didn

I remember being told years back with Digitalocean to not rely on their backups by one of the people that wrote their system. This made sense to me as they didn't even charge for it for the longest time. We do now use it some of the time and haven't had problems but there's always a second place we send images to (usually S3) as well as longer term offline archives.