Ma.gnolia User Data Is Gone For Good

miller60 writes "The social bookmarking service Ma.gnolia reports that all its user data was irretrievably lost in the Jan. 30 database crash that knocked the service offline. Ma.gnolia founder Larry Halff recently discussed the crash and the lessons to be learned from Ma.gnolia's experience. A lesson for users: don't assume online services have lots of staff and servers, and always keep backup copies of your data. Ma.gnolia was a one-man operation running on two Mac OS X servers and four Mac minis."

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Re:Mac reliability

[datapharmer]

hint: don't open your mouth unless you know what you are talking about. Almost everything you say here is completely wrong. 1. OS X is certified Unix. I don't care if you disagree. You can disagree with gravity too if you want, but it will still keep your feet on the ground. 2. You can get pre-OSX machines on a windows/mac environment just fine using third party tools like the ones made by Thursby software or by using a properly configured linux server. 3. There is increased functionality above a "regular linux server". Take xgrid for instance. Many of the tasks it does it can do work only with mac software. 4. OS updates can cause problems with any operating system. Duh. Mac updates are not all or nothing. What in the world do you even mean by that? They have point updates, but so does linux. This doesn't mean they don't have updates for individual OS components too. There was a security update just the other day that wasn't "all or nothing."