“We’d received an email about a month ago, telling us they were going to close on Friday the 13th,” said Bethany Silva, the technology<http://burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20090311/NEWS02/90311037#>coordinator for King Street Youth Center. “They shut down on Monday.”
.... Caught off guard? I mean sure -- 5 days early -- but they had a months notice. When were they going to think about moving their site? *Next*week? That being said -- this article humorously trivializes the effect (150 businesses with no online presence is mentioned over half way into the article) while tries to make a huge issue from the "lost gigabytes"!!. Sigh. Non-techs should ask for help with their tech stories. In the meantime -- are these on clearance now? http://www.cafepress.com/silicondairy/4887654 Stan On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:13 AM, Josh Sled <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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} >
