Last year I posted a note regarding data safety and how backups are crucial to maintaining your data’s safety.

I also talked about two things that could happen to make your server go missing: police raids (The Pirate Bay) and spontaneous combustion (electrical fires). Well, I don’t want to toot my own horn here, but the whole police raid scenario repeated itself, this time in Dallas.

The FBI pretty much raided an entire datacenter and seized everything because one of the hundreds of servers was involved in the distribution of a pirated movie, leaving hundreds of other innocent clients without their websites, email, etc. This datacenter’s clients includes telecom companies and this raid caused 911 services to be down for some of them. So, if the FBI doesn’t care about something as crucial as 911 services, why should they care about your data?

Read the entire statement written by Matthew Simpson, CEO of Core IP Networks, right here.

So, backup your data! Really.

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