It has been quite some time when I last posted something into the WH REACTION category, but I could not resist today. There have been interesting topics going around on the forums, but none of them really made me feel it needed an extra article on my blog.
The issue I will discuss here did change this as this is a very common issue. In fact this is a very crucial one, because your web site is a very important thing to most of you. You regard it as a investment and you want it to be online 24/7/365. And still there are people who just put their web site online and do not perform two basic tasks. These two tasks could safe them a lot of problems if any issue would pop up somewhere on the road, but many times one of these two is not present or even none of them is… .
I am talking about Regular BACK UPs and Web Site MONITORING. These two actions can safe you lots of money, nerves and problems. And I did not mention that they could safe you a lot of valuable data important for your business/project/online life etc.
Regular back ups
Your web site is full of data and one day something bad happens. A disk gets broken or your host did something wrong during a server migration and all your data is lost, because they do not have a back up. And the first thing you do is to go to a forum and complain, right? No, because if you would really think your data is of high importance to you you would perform regular back ups.
I would recommend making a day to day back up. This way you would not need to worry about anything being lost. If your site is updated every day and new stuff appears on it every day, than a daily back up should be a must. If your web site does not get so much fresh content or it is just a static web site without any input at all, than you will be fina with weekly or monthly backyps too.
WordPress, Joomla or Drupal and other CMS do have a plugin, addon or feature to back your web site and send it to your email or download it directly to your home computer. If you are using a “home made” solution or simple html web site you could back your whole /home directory. If you are using a database than a database back up is important too!
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Most of the time the way you will be able to back your web site up depends on what technology you are using. If you are not the site administrator of your web site, and are just the owner,than ask your admin to perform regular back ups.
Web site monitoring
Another important thing to not forget is to monitor your own web site. You could subscribe to your own RSS feed [if you have one], but it would be more effective to use a tool like mon.itor.us/ and set it up accordingly. There are lots of tools to use on the Internet and Google can give you a lot of answers.
Try to use this Google search phrase: web site monitoring and there should be plenty of great links to help you monitor your web site’s uptime and much more. The reason why it is so important to monitor your own web site is to make sure it’s up and running and does not have downtime. If you web site has downtime you are loosing money, readers or both. It’s definitely worth to monitor your own web site to make sure everything works the way you want it to work.
Hopefully this article gave you something to think about and the next time a disk gets broken you will be ready and have your own back up version of your web site so no problems will occur. Have a nice day and do not hesitate to leave a comment or question in the comments area related to this article.
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