Distribute.IT: A cautionary tale
Tue, 06/21/2011 - 16:16
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It looks like Melbourne-based hosting company and ICANN-accredited domain name registrar Distribute.IT is fighting for its very survival.
The company has posted this depressing notice on what's left of its Web-site.
It might seem crazy, but Distribute.IT is facing nothing short of an existential crisis because, absurdly, it didn't take offline backups. As the company itself put it:
Wed, 06/22/2011 - 10:16
#2
Heh heh heh...
Heh heh heh...
Thu, 06/23/2011 - 00:21
#3
Poor Risk Decision
Not that I'm advocating their approach but until you know the metrics it cannot be determined that it is a poor *risk* decision (although extremely likely) just a poor *security* decision.
That will no doubt be the end of Distribute.IT. No backups of customers data and it seems not even their own.
Even Telstra made backups for their Federal Government IT outsource deal in 2003, well before they were put in a wheelie bin and thrown out.