Re:Coding Horror and blogs.stackoverflow.com experience "100...
by InclinedPlane on Friday December 11, 2009 @06:37PM
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Also to be fair the backup process Atwood uses for Stack Overflow proper (et al) appears to be much more robust (regular offsite backups, etc.)
The failures in this case appear to be:
1. Not taking the robustness of his blogs seriously enough (a LOT of people make this mistake, especially with their own content).
2. Being overly trusting of the procedures of his hosting provider. He thought he could trust his hosting provider's "backups" since they are a big company with lots of customers and he paid money for said backups, turns out he got ripped off.
3. Forgetting the maxim that you have to own your core competencies, and existence should always be a core competency.
The failures in this case appear to be:
1. Not taking the robustness of his blogs seriously enough (a LOT of people make this mistake, especially with their own content).
2. Being overly trusting of the procedures of his hosting provider. He thought he could trust his hosting provider's "backups" since they are a big company with lots of customers and he paid money for said backups, turns out he got ripped off.
3. Forgetting the maxim that you have to own your core competencies, and existence should always be a core competency.