Excuse me? Not even close. They we're using EC2 (Amazon's elastic cloud) and
it's not in any way related to the hosting environment we're (My company) running since a few years back.
The environment is based upon XenServer (Enterprise version of Xen, an open source virtualization platform)
Also, we do have off site backups, per hour, encrypted.
On a personal note, i highly doubt that bitomat actually lost anything... It's more then possible that they just took the money and blamed Amazon.
well, maybe you have to put more information outside.
I understand, website is most simple and design for total newbies,
but how about some more info not just in this thread,
because nobody I know willing read 50 forum pages.