what's been going on sketchy here besides backups and where are you going? the problem with a lot of other sites is they suck as bad just for different reasons
It's easy to condemn the site for the backup situation but you guys obviously don't run websites. Yes, internet providers will backup your shit for you. For $$$$$ -- 4x a day?? Enjoy paying hundreds to thousands of dollars a month for that. Sending the backups over the net? if they're any large size which forum databases usually are especially with pictures included, it's gigabytes of data, takes a long time and the service provider will charge you for the extra bandwidth. i don't really buy the security excuse at all -- i'd say it's more likely they didn't have the resources to pay for it to be done more often or didn't take the time to if they were done manually. Shit happens.