Have you ever had a provider disappear with your data?

SamAlvi · 2025-08-11T17:38:31+00:00

I ask because three years ago I was paying some no-name VPS shop for "managed backups" and one morning their entire ASN went dark. No tweet, no email, just [b]poof[/b]. I had docker compose files and...

General Discussion by SamAlvi 1y ago 24 replies 3.2K views

SamAlvi

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#21

rustyrack_grag said:

Estonian LLC

Good find. The GreenCloudVPS ToS had a Delaware LLC reference in 2021, then it changed. These shell structures are a red flag. Real companies do not hide behind five jurisdictions for a $3 VPS.

my cloud. my rules. my 3AM alerts.

tech4

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#22

Lah the RackNerd price is too good to be true what you expect

lukadavid3

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#23

What is the 3-2-1 rule? I am new.

PascalOvid

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#24

lukadavid3 said:

What is the 3-2-1 rule?

3 copies of your data, 2 different media or locations, 1 offsite. It was covered above. Basic but it saves you.

256 cores for a blog. why not?

Server83

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3 #25

Same here. Lost a Minecraft server in 2022 to a dead host. Now I pay for two hosts and they back up to each other. Overkill but I sleep.

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