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International Backup Awareness Day
- jswinghammer 17y agoThis post strikes me as very defensive. I will grant that yeah he made a mistake but like the rest of us he's entitled to make mistakes. I'm not sure the images matter much but it's great that he got the text back. I hope that the people who feel inclined to jump all over him will recall one stupid mistake they made before doing so at least.
- michael_dorfman 17y agoFirst of all, props to Jeff for this blog post. He put himself in an embarrassing situation, but handled it gracefully, without excuses. Well done. That said, I don't think the post is defensive at all. It's not that Jeff made "one stupid mistake" and everybody is jumping on him-- it's that Jeff has been dispensing advice about best practices, including backups, and failed (spectacularly) on a very basic point.
- webology 17y agoServices like Amazon's S3 and Rackspace's Cloud Files are well worth the $0.15 to $0.30 a month that it takes to keep a backup of most websites. Better yet, keep a copy in each service and avoid problems that could occur from either service. If your website is static then you could actually serve directly out of either service in case of an emergency.