Can you imagine the pain of your entire blog evaporating because the hosted solution you relied on used mirroring as their backup? I think I would cry. There is some hope if the site has been well crawled and possibly archived. My reasoning for preferring hosted solutions in general is they have more experience in their business than I do and thus they should be more solid than anything I would spend a casual amount of time on alone. However, that trust must be earned and validated somehow and about the only thing I go on right now is size and age. WordPress and Blogger are big and old in internet years, so hopefully they’re not doing something so asinine with my precious data.
Of course, deleting things can be refreshing too.
