VPS vs website
I was under the impression that VPS was a virtual server instance and different from their Web hosting offerings.
Customers of 123-Reg hit by the hosting business's recent web deletion woes are being asked to step forward and make a claim against the outfit by a legal tech ambulance chaser startup. In March a hardware failure on one of 123-Reg's servers led to some customers' websites being hit by an outage. The firm hosts a total 1.7 …
I was under the impression that VPS was a virtual server instance and different from their Web hosting offerings.
it is.... but from the web hosting package you have very little control over things like the php.ini or many of the other things that you need control of...
for example, I have an instance of owncloud running, when it comes to upgrading it, the simple way is to run a command line script... you cant do that from web hosting.
beer.... well its tuesday....
Is that the same as airplane chasers - you know the social outcasts who dare to put in financial claims when the flight company doesn't meet its contracted level of service?
Unfortunately, the use of the phrase ambulance chasers in the article is Orlowski standard of unbiased "journalism".
Unbiased journalism is a myth, and silly to expect from human beings.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nationalreview.com/2015/05/there-no-such-thing-unbiased-journalism-so-lets-stop-pretending-david-harsanyi/amp/
https://www.americanpressinstitute.org/journalism-essentials/bias-objectivity/lost-meaning-objectivity/
Just sayin'.
What about when you have to keep backups for a L-O-N-G time like the aerospace industry, where the standard used to be lifespan of the airframe + 10 years. It's all well and good keeping those lovely 2400' open-reel magnetic tapes but where are you going to find a tape deck to read them on? Or an old Mainframe that can understand what's on them... (or a programmer who can write an emulator to let something newer read them...)