Nate Hill writes

> I've received a ton of email arguing for off-site servers and support, and
> I'm going to try my best to pursue this angle rather than get my own
> hardware.

  I still recommend to get your own local hardware for backup. You 
  don't want to all your data with one hosting company, so either
  rent with two different, competing firms or set up local hardware
  for backup.

  Cheers,

  Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
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