Godaddy Lost All Saved Emails!

[Larry Tew]

I have a Godaddy email account. All mine are still there. I manually check from my android device and am set up to leave the email on the server. I also check it through Outlook and have Outlook leave the email on the server for one day before deleting. Works fine.

 

[robtmccarthy]

+++ For Google Apps for Business. Seriously the best way to go for email. Rock Solid ZERO downtime. I've tried a few other email solutions, google apps is the way to go.

Sucks that you lost your emails from GoDaddy is you keep on them they might give you the backups that they must have.

But seriously go sign up for google apps now! syncs with Iphone or android. Imap works with outlook or the webapp gmail.com is very good if you only manage 1 address.

 

[retread]

You guys that think cloud computing is way to go need to re-think your future.

The reason for a "Personal Computer" from the get-go has been to maintain control of your own data. If the trend is to go back to putting all your data eggs in somebody else's basket, then good luck.

Look at this scenario.... the OP has no recourse.

 

[somarco]

Nothing is perfect. I rarely lose data. Have had hard drives crash, computers get zapped but haven't lost anything permanently in years and that was when I backed up on Zip drives.

In this case I think Malcolm pegged it. He set up the email wrong.

Email servers can crash so I have redundant email accounts, automated daily back up to Carbonite and an external HD plus Mailstore.

Even if my house burns down I can get everything back in less than 24 hours.

 

[Josh]

Aside from my implicit trust of google with my e-mails, I do have them on my hard drive as well as google servers. I would NEVER want to trust them all to my site host.

 

[easy8521]

You can set your POP3 to retrieve and leave on the webserver. I have godaddy email and i have my computer and phone set up to retrieve my POP3 and leave it on their site. Sucks to lose anything as important as emails.

 

[ksigmtsu]

You guys that think cloud computing is way to go need to re-think your future.

The reason for a "Personal Computer" from the get-go has been to maintain control of your own data. If the trend is to go back to putting all your data eggs in somebody else's basket, then good luck.

Look at this scenario.... the OP has no recourse.

The trick is have your eggs in all sorts of baskets at the same time, and it's hard to do that without using the "cloud" at some point.

 

[retread]

The trick is have your eggs in all sorts of baskets at the same time, and it's hard to do that without using the "cloud" at some point.

??? I don't. I have all my data on my own hard drives. HDDs are cheap... and I use Acronis to automatically backup that data daily and/or weekly. As a matter of fact, my frequently used files are backed up immediately (almost real-time) on an NAS. I put a copy of all my emails in a HDD dedicated to that.... etc. It is just too easy to add internal SATA HDDs, attach external SATA HDDs, add duplicate systems to a local network, etc. If one system crashes, everything is backed up to a twin (I built two systems identical to each other). And all this equipment costs just a few hundred bucks. Once it is automated, it runs itself. I get an email report on the status of everything regularly. Why do I need to pay somebody else to do this and allow them to hold my data hostage to their billing department?

My only gap in security is that all my drives on my network are in-house. I really should remove a HDD clone and store it in a safe deposit box off site, but I haven't done that yet. I suppose I'll get around to it before long... just been a little too busy lately. This, of course, will add some time required of me to clone the HDD regularly, go to the bank and swap out the one stored there, etc. This is the biggest draw-back, but I would rather do this than let anyone else touch my data.

I feel the same way about my cars. I do all the work on them myself. I have had too many mechanics screw up my cars in the past, so I do it myself and know the job is done right.

 

[ksigmtsu]

??? I don't. I have all my data on my own hard drives. HDDs are cheap... and I use Acronis to automatically backup that data daily and/or weekly. As a matter of fact, my frequently used files are backed up immediately (almost real-time) on an NAS. I put a copy of all my emails in a HDD dedicated to that.... etc. It is just too easy to add internal SATA HDDs, attach external SATA HDDs, add duplicate systems to a local network, etc. If one system crashes, everything is backed up to a twin (I built two systems identical to each other). And all this equipment costs just a few hundred bucks. Once it is automated, it runs itself. I get an email report on the status of everything regularly. Why do I need to pay somebody else to do this and allow them to hold my data hostage to their billing department?

My only gap in security is that all my drives on my network are in-house. I really should remove a HDD clone and store it in a safe deposit box off site, but I haven't done that yet. I suppose I'll get around to it before long... just been a little too busy lately. This, of course, will add some time required of me to clone the HDD regularly, go to the bank and swap out the one stored there, etc. This is the biggest draw-back, but I would rather do this than let anyone else touch my data.

I feel the same way about my cars. I do all the work on them myself. I have had too many mechanics screw up my cars in the past, so I do it myself and know the job is done right.

If you have a web server with unlimited storage and have ssh access, you can probably install crashplan on it, and use it for offsite and its encrypted and stays in a closed loop system. And has no monthly fee.

 

[arkansaslr]

anyone has invites to google + would like one if you do.....