I do not make backups of other users’ data on puzzling.org, with the not-guarenteed exception of WordPress weblogs, which I intermittantly back up. Further, I do not believe that Linode does backups either. While I will take every reasonable precaution not to destroy your data, you should maintain backups of any data that is important [...]
Please note that I want people to self police on this: I won’t be seeking evidence that you’re not following the below, I want to trust people. If any part of the below is not acceptable to you, please talk to me first (perhaps it was misworded or there’s an implication I didn’t consider) and [...]
Policy applies to: people hosting websites on puzzling.org
Hosting images is now a potentially enormous bandwidth liability. This is thanks to images.google.com, which makes it easy to find third party images, and the <img> HTML tag, which makes it easy to include other people’s images in your own pages. If you have an image at http://example.puzzling.org/hugeimage.jpg, [...]
I set up my own certificate authority a while back for signing SSL keys associated with puzzling.org. I’ve finally gotten around to doing this properly, and so I am using the following keys for secure services:
one for users.puzzling.org, which will be presented when you connect to the website securely (usually for webmail). This one expires [...]