When hosting crashes

Yesterday, the hosting provider I’ve been using for 5 years had a hard drive failure for the third time in the last year. Which meant I couldn’t get to my site or get the majority of my email. I felt like someone had cut off my right arm, I was in a sort of detatched state yesterday. Things are finally back up, almost 24 hours later and I’ve decided that it’s time to host my sites on my own servers. I’ll be making the change over in the next couple weeks, what a pain in the rear!