The Annual Rant!
BACKUP YOUR STORIES!
I've been repeating that for the last couple of years. Maybe I should add, BACKUP AT MULTIPLE PLACES! REGULARLY!
And FF.net stopped the M-stories purge already! or did they?
Now this is the bit I'm yelling about - if people don't do backup of their files regularly, and the fiasco at ff.net happens again, it's going to be another round of people frantically trying to upload their files to other servers/archives! And guess what? Downtime for the overload servers! This is totally unfair for the admin when they get bitched at! AND increase in server space and bandwidth do not happen magically.
Don't think that just because you need a space to park your files NOW, archivists/admins would be happy to find their in-boxes suddenly stuffed with, "do you want my stories", requests codes etc...
I've been repeating that for the last couple of years. Maybe I should add, BACKUP AT MULTIPLE PLACES! REGULARLY!
And FF.net stopped the M-stories purge already! or did they?
Now this is the bit I'm yelling about - if people don't do backup of their files regularly, and the fiasco at ff.net happens again, it's going to be another round of people frantically trying to upload their files to other servers/archives! And guess what? Downtime for the overload servers! This is totally unfair for the admin when they get bitched at! AND increase in server space and bandwidth do not happen magically.
Don't think that just because you need a space to park your files NOW, archivists/admins would be happy to find their in-boxes suddenly stuffed with, "do you want my stories", requests codes etc...