<div>Unfortunetly, you learnt the hard way. Never rely on any third party. Make sure you have backups of all your data on machines which you have direct access to.</div>
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<div>There are a large number of offsite companies offering backup services. Check them out and make sure their contracts still allow you to sue them if they lose your data.</div>
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<div>We have two machines for just this reason. (We also learnt the hard way.) They mirror each other and they are hosted with two different companies. Therefore, if one company/server fails, we can instantly switch over without losing data.
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<div>Never rely too heavily on one supplier/service.</div>
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<div>Good luck getting back online.</div>
<div>Dan<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 05/04/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ronald Wiplinger</b> <<a href="mailto:ronald@elmit.com">ronald@elmit.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br>><br>>> Well, I wake up this morning, and aussievoip isn't<br>>> up. I ring godaddy,<br>
>> who _were_ hosting it, and they say that the<br>>> machine's been compromised,<br>>> and you can't have your data. Nyah Nyah.<br>>><br>>><br><br>Have you tried the Internet archieve (wayback machine). I was once lucky
<br>to find my web pages there to recover it!<br><br>>> I spent 1 hour and 38 minutes on the phone to them,<br>>> trying to convince<br>>> them to let me somehow get access to it, but to no<br>>> avail. I've reported
<br>>> it to the Australian Federal Police High-Tech Crime<br>>> Unit, asking for a<br>>> forensic analysis of the attack - hopefully I'll be<br>>> able to get a copy<br>>><br>You are kidding, are you? You do not really expect that, do you?
<br><br><br>bye<br><br>Ronald Wiplinger<br>>> of the data from the police, eventually, that way.<br>>> Until then, however,<br>>> we're out of luck.<br>>><br>>> I've had a couple of offers of hosting (I put it on
<br>>> <a href="http://voip-info.org">voip-info.org</a>) but<br>>> for the moment, I've signed up with serverpronto,<br>>> which does get 1440<br>>> hits from google on 'serverpronto sucks'- which is
<br>>> an order of magnitude<br>>> less than 'godaddy sucks', at 155,000 hits. (With<br>>> quotes, it gets 3<br>>> hits, and godaddy gets 783)<br>>><br>>> So, basically, <a href="http://aussievoip.com">
aussievoip.com</a> and <a href="http://soft-switch.org">soft-switch.org</a><br>>> will be down for AT<br>>> LEAST 24 hours. I've spoken to coppice and he has a<br>>> reasonably recent<br>>> backup, but I'll be crawling google's cache for
<br>>> anything in there to try<br>>> to rebuild aussievoip.<br>>><br>>> Yes, I had backups. They were on the machine. It was<br>>> a shared hosting<br>>> server. You'd expect never to have data _loss_, just
<br>>> fumble-finger-ism.<br>>> Obviously, I was wrong.<br>>><br>>> GoDaddy sucks, indeed.<br>>><br>>> Anyway, it's being taken care of, just don't expect<br>>> there to be any<br>
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