2009: The year your data died

14.10.2009

Wait, we're not done yet. If you live in Sweden, for a brief period you were transported back to the pre-Internet era when -- effectively making nearly a million Swedish sites invisible to the InterWebs.

No data was lost, as far as I know. But think about it. The entire Web can be taken down for want of a single period. Does that make you nervous? It should.

The lessons du jour: Back up early, back up often, and don't rely entirely on something that might not be there when you need it most.

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