Disaster - Public Service Announcement

[swatts]

We use www.codespaces.com to host our Subversion repositorys and bought into the cloud-based business model.

They use Amazon cloud services to host their system and the selling point was secure off-site back-up every 10 minutes. This all seemed perfect for us and it really improved how we do business.

Imagine my horror then to being informed that they have been hacked into closure with all back-ups deleted.

This gives me a suspicion about cloud-based businesses. These are essentially small, low overhead companies holding liability for vast amounts of data. If anything goes wrong they immediately shut up shop, leaving the poor customer up the creak.

So now I have to find an alternative repository/bug reporting/project management tool and change all my documentation.

What a nightmare.

Love

Steve