Let me tell you a little story. A story about how keeping off-site backups of my site (and my client sites!) saved my skin. Recently, my host experienced a... cataclysmic failure. It was a complete freak accident that I don't think anyone could have seen coming, but it resulted in almost every website they host going offline. Unfortunately, it took them quite a while to get back online - they went down Friday evening and my server wasn't restored until Tuesday morning. Not only were the websites down, but nobody could access their hosting account at all. No FTP, no cPanel ... Keep Reading
