December 2009 was a bad month for me. I used a web host called webhostingpad.com. I have one of those “host as many domains as you want” accounts with them, and like the title implies, I had several websites on one account. That in and of itself is not a bad thing. But I was covered! My web hosting company tells me that they back up their servers every week. I’m cool, my data gets backed up, my files get backed up, what more do I have to worry about? On top of that I even do my own back ups of my databases. If a crash happens, I’ll be somewhat inconvenienced and I’ll have to wait for the hosting company to restore all my stuff.
WAS I AN IDIOT OR WHAT? December 2009 rolls around and boom down goes their servers. More to the point they have a hardware failure. I’m we’ll be back up in a couple of hours. That rolls into a day, then 2 days, finally 5 days go by and so steamin’ mad. I’ve ripped into them several time at this point and I’m ready to move to a new company. One tiny little problem. My database backups were on the server! I can’t go anywhere with out my data.
Every website owner is an IDIOT waiting to happen. On the 6th. day, webhostingpad finally restored my website. THANK GOD! Now its “let’s get the ball rolling and get up running” time, and start moving forward again. Ahhhh, but wait, there’s more! Now it’s the time where you discover after the fact of a huge crash, that there is a CAVEAT to the “WE BACK UP OUT SERVERS EVERY WEEK”. You see, one of my most important sites they restored had changes and data that was over a year old. WHAT? What just happened to all the work and customers that I accrued over the lat 12 months? The bottom line, they were all gone! They and their website left out one tiny little detail. We don’t back up websites of 1 GB or more.
Talk about losing the wind in your sails. I pretty much lost everything. You see I was a first rate fool! I had so many different back ups plans and everyone of them failed. Even though I planed for disasters, I still lost everything. Why? Because I was missing the most important disaster recovery tool on the face of the earth.
There is a data/disaster recovery tool called Site-Vault. Site-Vault backs up not only your website files, but it also back ups your MySQL databases as well. To make it even better, it downloads everything to your home or office computer. If you’re like me you have more than one website. We have been using it for a couple of months now and it is rock solid. We manage about a dozen or so websites, and everyone of them is backed up and ready for disaster recovery at a moments notice.
Check them out! I promise you, you will not be sorry for getting the software. The bottom line is, it costs $99.00 to back up an unlimited amount of websites. At this point don’t bother with the lesser versions. Your time, your sites, your piece of mind is worth a hundred times more than that.
Don’t go through what I went through. Don’t learn the hard way. Wisdom learns from others mistakes and misfortunes. Follow this link to Site-Vault. Buy the full version for $99.00 and start backing up your websites. It is the best thing you can so for yourself and to prevent a major disaster.
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