Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Backing-up Your Blog

When you talk of making money with a blog you rarely speak of backing-up your blog or website as a way to the end of the rainbow. However, I know of no other way to go broke as quickly as with a website that mysteriously disappears in the middle of the night.

I recently ran up on a poll that shows modern day back-up figures for those who visit a popular computer manufacture. It showed that only 35 percent of those that visit the site back-up their computers at all. And those who back-up their systems once a week were just 22 percent of the 35 percent.

I know that I am sometimes slow when it comes to the ole back-up. But I usually can get things done without too much trauma or delay. Now I’m not regular but ……….

Yeah right; not backing-up your computer may or may not have long range effects, but who will really know except you, unless you are in the IT department of a fortune 500 company. And even if you do back-up you can usually take your time restoring your computer. If your blog or website goes down, everyone knows !

When your blog or website goes missing ……… your screwed. Sorry, that’s the hard truth. Unless your backed-up. When you install or purchase your blog, you should back-up first thing. It’s not rocket science nor time consuming to right-click and compress your /public_html. Just remember to backup to your hard drive or flash media, it shows bad form to back-up to or store server side. It also shows bad form to store your desktop files server side.

What you have to keep in mind is that you are viewed by potentially thousands everyday, it is imperative that you provide a professional look if you have any hope of profiting over the long run. Having your blog or website go missing in the middle of the night or neglecting to provide your site to your market, will kill any good will and trust that you have worked to build up.

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