When You Leave a Host

We always delete data after a customer leaves for liability reasons.

If someone is no longer a customer of ours, there is no reason to hold onto it.
 
I agree with all the replier above. You could delete all the data before you leave the current hosting provider. In addition, you could check whether the current hosting provider has the legal information regarding the privacy policy.
 
The best solution is to pick a company you wont have to leave.

There are some fairly sick, twisted companies out there, who will claim ownership over your data and launch another copy of your site after you leave with ads...

So be careful who you sign up with.

And also, it's worth noting that many web servers today are very easily hacked. They don't use PHPSuExec, so you can basically access any files you want in the system, especially if they have 777 permissions. (A huge no no.)

If you're paranoid, make a self destruct sequence that only you can launch, and build it into every page. Hide it well. If you do it right, any theives will not get far with your code. Of course that's a liability if you don't secure it well.

And stealing text, well you can't do anything about it before the fact, except maybe put part of your text as images, which will be annoying to your visitors who have to wait for that to load. There is a site copyscape.com to detect it after, so you at least know who took it.

Chances are nobody cares as much as you think they might. (Unless they can get money somehow through your data. Then they care.)
 
Oh yes I realise that most people wouldn't care. But I've had pages stolen in the past and it stung, but was only recreational stuff. If it was worth more I would have wanted to take it further.

Text and images are a pain to protect, never found anything truly effective.
 
AbbieRose said:
Oh yes I realise that most people wouldn't care. But I've had pages stolen in the past and it stung, but was only recreational stuff. If it was worth more I would have wanted to take it further.

Text and images are a pain to protect, never found anything truly effective.
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I agree. I have tried many of the things, right click protect and such. Even posted copyrights and what have you. Nothing seems to work. If someone wants something of yours then they are going to take it I guess. I used to have a different opinion on this but I have found everything ineffective.
 
It depends of the company has a deprovisioning process when a customer cancels their account. There are a great number of customers who cancel and decide to return for one reason or another so some hosts may choose to leave the content on the servers for a paticular time frame before removing. I would recommend removing it once you change your primary and secondary names servers to point to the new host. Just make sure to leave time for DNS propogation, typically 48 hours should be enough time.
 
I can't unerstand...When you leave your host,you have different reasons to do it...so,why do people come back...?
I think,if you decided to change your host,you should destroy all your data...
 
I wouldn't know.

And I think there's no way to know since I wouldn't have access to their servers anymore. I got to put my faith on the host for this one.
 
I think most probably delete your information. It doesn't do me any good to keep to keep the 1G of data from your blog website. It's just taking up disk space that I could have to make sure my current paying customers have resources available.

I only keep data around for sites that I cancel due to TOS violations, or for people who are doing illegal activity, but this is only kept for a short while in case we are wrong, or while we investigate ways to thwart illegal activity.

Sorry your hosting provider isn't handling your account properly, good luck with your next one.
 
You should remove your private data when moving form a host if it is confidential. But if it isn't you don't need to do anything the web hosting provider will remove it anyways. No hosting companies would want to keep your data if you move the host. It's a waste of space.
 
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