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| 15 Reasons To Backup Your Website |
By:
Lynette Chandler |
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There's so much to think of and do when backing up your
important business information. Many people naturally think to
back up all the contents of their computer but backing up of
websites is too often overlooked. Make sure you don't overlook
this important step in backing up your business or you could fall
victim to one or more of the following circumstances (and many of
these actually happened).
1. While 'pruning' your message forum you accidentally delete a
section you didn't mean to.
2. You've been with a web hosting company for years and they
disappear without a trace.
3. Your web host is upgrading and as a result your site goes down
for hours, and in some cases a day at a time. This happened to
me!
4. You work with several people 'live' on a website. They
accidentally overwrote your work and you didn't save a copy of the
page.
5. You've upgraded scripts or software and it's not working right so
you need to get your site back to the way it was before you made
the changes.
6. Your web host holds your site or domain captive. Pending your
dispute, you need to setup your site all over again even in another
place and domain.
7. Your website gets hacked and everything was deleted. I've
experienced this. While not everything was deleted, it was a large
enough chunk. Also, in those early days, I had just learned to edit
websites live and had no copy on my hard drive.
8. Your web host just may keep backups, but there is no
guarantee that these are going to be the ones you need at the
time you need them. For example I was once managing a site that
needed the database restored and we went to the web host for
help. The host only had three databases and none were the one
we needed so we had to opt for the oldest database, missing out
on a few days of newer content we had on the site. If you do your
own backups this doesn't have to happen.
9. While moving web hosts, due to a misunderstanding, the old
account was canceled and deleted too early.
10. Your web host reviewed your site and decides you have
violated their terms of service and shuts down your account in
short notice.
11. You uploaded the wrong site or folder and overwrote the
previous one. It's easy to do this type of thing if you are using FTP
and have a huge list of sites you're working it.
12. You or someone reinstalled FrontPage extensions and now
your redirects, error pages, fancy URL's and what not don't work
anymore. You see, when you reinstall FrontPage extensions, it re-
creates all your .htaccess files. That means, any customizations
you had will also be lost.
13. You had custom programming done to your scripts. Your new
web master upgraded the script and can't remember where or
what all the modifications are. Worst, he/she doesn't know how to
re-program those customizations.
14. A hacker inserted malicious code on all your website's pages
and you need to rollback to the previous good version.
15. When moving web hosts your blog's database wasn't copied
and now you can't gain access to your old site's files.
You are the only one who is responsible for backing up your
websites information. Don't go looking to your web host to have
all this for you, they won't. Get your site backed up, and do it now.
When and if you ever do have problems you'll be so thankful you
don't have to go through a lot of hastle to get everything back in
working order.
Lynette Chandler helps entrepreneurs leverage readily available technology for their marketing. Learn to apply the power of technology to your marketing |
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