All eggs in one basket?
A friend of mine had hosted all her sites with one hoster. The hoster went bankrupt yesterday, and almost all site backups were on the hoster’s servers.
Lessons to be learned:
- Don’t have all your sites (and domains and e-mail addresses!) with one smaller hoster, no matter how cheap they are or how much you are befriended with them. Distribute your sites between hosting companies.
- Always make local (as in: not somewhere in the net) backups of your contents. And keep those backups up-to-date.
- Have one e-mail address independent from your domains, like on Gmail.
This may sound like an overkill, but if you make your money with or via the Internet, losing your domains and your normal e-mail accounts means losing your business. In a heartbeat. So better take care early and often.
