Importance of Backups
Posted in Techno Stuffs on September 1st, 2008
I could never emphasize enough the importance of backups to everyone. I had bad experiences of data loss by ignoring the importance of this very basic administrative task, the worst is actually losing a whole website data due to my leniency.
Your web hosting or VPS provider may try to impress you about their servers configured with RAID 10 super fast SATA disks. It’s true that this kind of configuration offers some level of protection from data loss but for your own sake, just keep your own backups since they would surely not be liable for any data loss as most of their TOS (Terms of Service) states.
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