Subj : Re: Advice on self-hosting a website?
To   : Arelor
From : dflorey
Date : Mon Apr 07 2025 21:16:22

 Ar> Having a virtual private server on rent is no replacement for proper
 Ar> practices.
 Ar> You should not count on having anybody backup your stuff.
 Ar> 
 Ar> Where I work at we have been pulling services off the cloud back into
 Ar> our premises because budgetworthy cloud services are not that reliable.

Seems to be a common trend lately - moving back to on-prem or a hybrid
approach.
I work for an MSP and one of our key backup offerings was to resell cloud
backup solutions to our clients. To be fair, WE hosted the backup
repositories in our private DC (I wouldn't want it any other way), but the
vendor (Arcserve) decide to completely axe the platform - putting us in a
position where we had to pivot to another product!

Another backup provider we also use/used around the time had a major incident
where they simply lost a huge chunk of backup data in the chains - meaning
all backup sets reliant on the lost images were then incomplete and new
chains had to be started. Worst part is, no one knew until it was too late!

Not saying the cloud is always bad nor am I stating that on-prem is best, but
its a case of having multiple backups in multiple locations & formats. I do
need to practice what I preach, I only have one backup method (although
spread across two locations).

If you host a webserver on a budget VPS, be certain, there's no backup!

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