The short version: it's all fun and games until somebody loses an archive.

And the problem is that most cloud systems aren't really set up for either user-controlled, external backups or staff-produced restores. Not the free versions.

( Longer version )

So I am left with either trusting Firefox's native bookmark-restore or making periodic manual backups which are, of necessity, specific to one device and not available online either. Xmarks comes closest to the functionality I want, and even that doesn't really provide for external backups. This seems to me to be a bit of a blind spot in the whole system.

Right, then, we're back up!

Everyone who's getting 404s, just hit reload. If that doesn't work, clear you cache and hit it again. Your browser is probably looking at the old IP address.

Man, is it just me or are the web-hosting companies going to complete shit? Anything short of serious enterprise-level e-commerce accounts with dedicated servers has gone downhill like they started from the top of a cliff in the last year or two. HostMonster has lost my databases more than once. (And not deleted them--they were found in about 20 minutes, and HM doesn't do daily or even weekly backups, so /somehow/ they actually /lost/ them.) *sighs* It's enough to make me look longingly at things like Amazon's S3 network, though as an individual I doubt I can afford it.