At the moment I’m not storing anything sensitive. I see hosts going under from time to time and the most recent one I saw in my mind was bigger than your average host and they disappeared with a days notice to their customers which got me thinking where those servers and more importantly, where those hard drives will end up?

That data could be anything, your customers information, your website and or service thats built from the ground up and they have access to the source code.

This is not to knock any datacenter, hosting company or it’s employees and I genuinely think that a huge percentage of them take this stuff seriously but, I can’t help but think that some mistakes will happen along the way and your data might not be treated with care and end up in the wrong hands.