07 July 2026
Snapshots are not backups. They're undo buttons that share a fate with the thing they're undoing. A VM snapshot lives on the same storage array, in the same provider, tied to the same volume. Ransomwa…
06 July 2026
Your host's backups belong to your host, not to you. They live in the same account, behind the same login, on the same infrastructure. The day your card gets declined, your account gets suspended, or …
05 July 2026
If you can't say your RTO and RPO out loud, your backup strategy is vibes. RPO is how much data you're willing to lose (an hour? a day?). RTO is how long you're willing to be down. Everything else is …
04 July 2026
An untested backup is not a backup. It's a prayer. You have a folder of .sql.gz files going back 14 months. Congrats, you have a museum. You have never once restored a single one, so you have no idea …
03 July 2026
The size of your backup means nothing. The thing you can't reproduce is the only thing worth saving. Everybody backs up the 50GB of media that's already on your CDN and could be re-fetched in an after…
02 July 2026
No, your CDN cache is not a backup, and I'm tired of explaining this. When your origin dies, that cached HTML serves stale for minutes, then expires into glorious 502s. It holds no database, no admin,…
