... garbage in, garbage out.

If you check, you will be dismayed how many people in your own hometown lack basic food and shelter. Help them.

I've done more than my share of batch programming using punch cards and paper tape on machines from the Amdahl 470 to the original PDP-8 (pre-integrated circuits). I remember how advanced a 10 character per second Teletype terminal seemed. And I sure as heck don't miss those days! Give me my Python interpreter any day! :-)

-- Art Z.

tlambert hit the nail on the head. Go learn the fundamentals, either through coursework or through self-taught methods. Once you understand the fundamentals, you will find it much easier to grasp frameworks and "modern" technology.

Ban social networks? Nah. The underlying problem is communication. We should ban all communication when "we know they are plotting violence, disorder and criminality." Hmmmmm... can you make a whole country sit quietly in the corner for a time-out? :P

Choice of hosting company tells me a lot about how the site owner views his own site. If he is unwilling to spend a few bucks on a quality host then he obviously places very little value on his web site. And if the site owner values his site so poorly, why are you worried about backups?