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Okay, but say you do get shutdown and you have your offsite backups, like most people. It's still a significant amount of work starting from scratch to rebuild and link all of your servers, dbs, services, etc. Plus all of the basic OS tweaking.

Losing your backups because your on one site is always dangerous. Getting completely kicked off your VPS systems with no warning or help is what's new and scary about this DO story.