Comments on: Ouch, Journalspace gives up, domain for sale on eBay

By: volumeenjoysstockings

volumeenjoysstockings — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:20:52 +0000

Have you told many people that your own little web services for your blog RSS aggregation recipes photographs file storage and the list grows as you find fun new servers to run?.

By: Chris Baker

Chris Baker — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:02:06 +0000

“Apparently, a RAID setup was their only data backup they had in place, and that doesn’t protect you from some types of threat.”

Correction: They had no data backup.

By: Roy

Roy — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:25:41 +0000

@Josa: No, I wouldn’t know that. Although not backing up your home computer isn’t something you can blame AOL for, I feel your pain. The blog I deleted didn’t have a lot of interesting content, except for some stuff about my daughter…

By: Josa

Josa — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:01:56 +0000

I lost my first blog when AOL closed its blogs down. It was precious and I did back it up, but on my home computer, which has a Novell system which has collapsed. I am sad because there was a lot of stuff about my baby growing up. Do you know if they may have our data somewhere stored? You aren’t the right person to ask of course….

By: Roy

Roy — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:39:48 +0000

I remember that in the early days of blogging there was another service that lost tons of data. Not sure if it was LiveJournal or some other. And yeah, people probably don’t realize how valuable their blogs are getting. This blog has only been around for a few years, but I wouldn’t want to lose it. I still miss one of my earlier blogs, that I deleted without thinking it through.

To be quite honest, if I was still at a $5/month host, I’d be making backups every day. At that price you can’t really expect them to care as much as you do. One of the reasons I put a few ads up on this blog is to pay for top notch hosting.

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:02:30 +0000

Yeah, little web 2.0 bubbles tend to burst every now and then. I’m becoming less and less reliant on third-party services – especially ones that don’t have fairly considerable financial backing and/or a reputable name. Instead I fork over $5 a month for web hosting and I run my own servers. I now have my own little web services for my blog, RSS aggregation, recipes, photographs, file storage, and the list grows as I find fun new servers to run. I suppose this makes my ISP the single point of failure, but they’re a big company so I put my faith in their services.

Didn’t LiveJournal lose/purge a whole bunch of user data as well? Somehow I empathize the most when it’s blogs that are lost because people pour their hearts out, making them very valuable, irreplaceable resources.