[t0pj]

"take some simple steps to ensure that you don't bork your site"

unborked[.com] is currently available.

A site dedicated to stopping all of the borking going on out there.

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I think some cheap, simple sql dumps from the db, burned to an external HD and taken home would've been a good first step -- your data would be dated but somehow restorable nonetheless without the need for off-site, replicated, heart-beat monitored databases.

IMHO you really need an expert database admin (of which I am not) to get all of this up and keep all of it going; a caretaker who's only job in life is the maintenance of any and all persisted data.

On another note, backups are really useless unless you have actually tested the restores.

[jacquesm]

what does 'burning to an external harddrive' do ?

is this some new tech that I'm unfamiliar with ;) ?