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Old 03-02-2008, 12:30 PM
Martinscholes Martinscholes is offline
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Default Re: Dilemma need input plz.

What might happen?

Well, I'll tell you of a story that happened last month to someone I know.

He runs a very successful website. It is hosted by an ISP on their servers.

One day, his site went down. He called the ISP only to be told that there had been a major fire at their data facility and that all of the servers had been totalled by the fire.

When he asked about the back-ups they had told him they had been making they admitted that the back-up servers were in the same data centre and they had been destroyed in the fire, too. He is having to re-start the whole website from scratch.

The point I am making is that if anything goes wrong at the server of the people who are hosting the site (they go out of business, server fire, have a data loss, whatever) your friends would lose their site and their business.

It's not worth the risk, IMO.
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