http://burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20090311/NEWS02/90311037
"Onliners, caught off guard by the shutdown of South Burlington-based Internet provider Silicon Dairy this week, lost gigabytes of irreplaceable data. "Representatives of the business have so far been unavailable to discuss Monday’s online flatlining. Even their phone lines are dead. […] "The unexpected closure affects a broad spectrum of clients, including the Committee on Temporary Shelter (COTS), the Church Street Marketplace, Ronald McDonald House and the Vermont Barter Network. "Even the lucky few that received advance notice from the company were not spared an unpleasant surprise." I don't know that it's exactly relevant given the focus and scope of the projects, but I'd like to mention <http//www.archiveteam.org/>, if only to underscore the idea that even if the web service (up in the cloud) you entrust your precious data to is orders of magnitude larger than Silicon Dairy (*cough* Lycos *cough* geopages *cough* Yahoo! *cough*) … it's still at risk. We need to be both vigilant with our irreplaceable data, and have contingency plans for our services and online presence. -- ...jsled http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo $...@${b}
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