> I do believe that the stackoverflow people have (much) more experience in handling such websites then Joseph. I can very easily trust them to do regular database backups
Except, you know, for that time when the stack overflow guys lost everything on their blog due to "catastrophic data loss" and also subsequently found out that their backups were toast, too. :P
I kid, I kid...
Just use the site that is currently operational, this isn't really a life-altering decision. (Right now I am agonizing if I should submit this comment to hacker news or reddit.)
EDIT: On an unrelated note, my IP appears to be banned from StackOverflow.com. I have never used/abused the site (I don't even have an account there) outside of browsing a few times. It has been banned for at least half a year. Very annoying. Even the big guys get stuff wrong sometimes.
A while back I was in Guatemala and kept getting an HTTP 403. mailed them and it turns out they blocked the entire country because they were getting hit "1,000 times a day". After a couple more emails they unblocked it again.
I believe the data loss was on Jeff Atwood's personal blog codinghorror.com, not Stack Overflow, and it was due to outsourcing the hosting/backup to an (incompetent) third party.
Except, you know, for that time when the stack overflow guys lost everything on their blog due to "catastrophic data loss" and also subsequently found out that their backups were toast, too. :P
I kid, I kid...
Just use the site that is currently operational, this isn't really a life-altering decision. (Right now I am agonizing if I should submit this comment to hacker news or reddit.)
EDIT: On an unrelated note, my IP appears to be banned from StackOverflow.com. I have never used/abused the site (I don't even have an account there) outside of browsing a few times. It has been banned for at least half a year. Very annoying. Even the big guys get stuff wrong sometimes.