Backing up or not backing up - that is the question

A week ago, paid hosting (VPS), where my blogs are located, was flooded with evil hackers. They did it through a hole in the LXLabs virtual machine management system. Everything fell about 100,000 (!) Sites. However, a week-long down-time was not the worst. The worst thing was that all the data was lost. And the backups that were part of the subscription were not stored on tape or disconnected from the network, but on the same servers where the VPSs were. In general, fun in full swing. I'm still lucky. Since moving to this hosting in April of this year, I dragged both the bases and the files through the laptop. From this backup, I actually recovered. Posts from April to June pulled out with Google Reader. And my friend dragged his blog directly. Accordingly, all the records for 8 years he lost forever. Such are the pies. Why am I all? Having even paid hosting will be quite useful to make your own backup. At least once a week. Then such surprises can be experienced with minimal losses.

By the way, the owner of the company that developed LXLabs, committed suicide. It is not known for certain whether the reason for this was data loss on 100,000 sites or something else. But the fact remains.