There are some news outlets hyping up the side effects of an FBI on a hosting company in Dallas. Most of the clients of the hosting company are not accused of any wrong doing, but the servers there websites were hosted on are turned off and removed from the internet.
The bottom line being that they are out of business for the time being. The answer for this type problem is really quite simple, and it doesn't matter if the cause of your hosting troubles is:
- The FBI
- Electricity
- Hardware failure
- Bankruptcy of your hosting company
- Network failure
- Any other disaster taking your server off line
For example, if you use a shared hosting account, a VPS account, or a dedicated server, simply purchase another identical hosting account with another company in a different location.
For example, if your current hosting is in Dallas, get your second account in California, Chicago, Toronto. Any where sufficiently separated that any natural or other disasters are unlikely to affect both data centers.
Setup an rsync process to copy your data over on a regular interval. It might be daily, or hourly depending on how often you update your information and the nature of it. If you use mysql, setup replication so that the second server is always up to date.
Make sure you configure your DNS to have a reasonable TTL, say 1 hour.
Now in the case of a failure, whether it is a hard drive crapping out or the FBI seizing your hosting company, you simply reprogram your DNS server for your alternate hosting and your back online in an instant (an hour at the most for your DNS to completely update).
It is really a cheap insurance policy!
