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.

CT

OIOPublisher is a Ad Network solution for  Bloggers trying to sell directly to people that might want to advertise on your blog or website. What OIOPublisher does, is it helps to automate the process of selling ad space, so you can spend more time adding content to your blog instead of trying to find and sell to prospective clients. OIOpublisher puts the focus on performance, control and ease of use. The best part is you keep 100% of the revenue you bring in.

When you use the OIOPublisher network, advertisers can order, pay for and upload their ads directly to your blog. All you have to is approve the ad. If advertisers want to run ads on your site you’ll make some cash, otherwise OIOPublisher will run ads from their ad networks or your own ads until someone purchases the available space.

The software costs a measly $47.00 and it works on any PHP website and it includes a plug-in for wordpress blogs. Here are some of its features:

• OIO can be used as a standalone platform, or as a WordPress plugin
• sell text ads, banner ads, in-content ads and paid reviews
• sell custom items; from custom ads to digital downloads
• enitrely automated; purchases and epxirations all handled automatically
• your own ad server; javascript output lets you display ads on any website
• break ads into zones; display ads easily over multiple sites
• click and impression tracking; weekly ad reports emailed to advertisers
• no empty ad slots; show your own default ads until slots are purchased
• ad status management; approve / reject / expire / renew / validate ads
• setup your own affiliate program; reward people for selling your ads
• easily extend functionality; modules let developers go further
• integrated marketplace; let us help you advertise your ads

The guys over at johnchow.com are giving away two free copies of the software at the end of this month. (January 2009) To enter, all you have to do is visit their blog and leave a comment. It couldn’t be any easier to enter.

Good Luck,

CT

I promise you, if this software isn’t everything I said, I’ll buy you dinner at your favorite restuarant. The cost is $167.00, but it is well worth it. Click the link above and watch the video on the page it takes you too. It blew me away, and it will blow you away too! I purchased SEO Elite and all I can say is WOW!