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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.


It wasn't just Coding Horror that got hit. The StackOverflow blog was also gone for days. StackOverflow (meaning the QA site itself) wasn't affected.

Also, the point still stands that Jeff should have had his own backups as well, rather than assuming his provider had it properly covered.

Part of a good backup strategy is testing recovery which is apparently nobody associated with StackOverflow had bothered to try before that incident.


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