The examples of back up strategies I talked about in my last article [click] are not the only ones. there are of course many more and it depends mostly on you and your needs. Today I would like to expand on the last article a little bit more. To back up something, or better said to have a back up strategy in place if something happens does not only mean to back up your web space data, database tables, but it can be understood in a much wider view.
What more back up strategies could be used?
We all know, that data are very valuable to use. We own a web site and users leave interactions on the sites, web sites change every day, we update them from time to time and thus data is valuable, but there is one more thing we could consider as very important. It’s our email messages!!!
It’s the area of backing up our email communication. It might not look like a very important thing, but believe 
me sometimes t pays off a lot! When I started my first online web site I had to send mails to get some approval to use some pictures and I forgot to back up the emails the people send me back. Well, and thus I had to go through he same process once again.
But imagine you would be operating a commercial web site and it goes down. You are receiving tons of important emails every day and you would possible loose all your email… You should not count on the hosting company, that they do have back ups! Maybe the back ups will not be available and thus you will loose all the important mails.
In cases like this it’s good to have a back up, or emergency, strategy in place. It can be as simple as downloading all your emails for OFFLINE use trough a mail client like Mozilla Thunderbird, or you could use a third party email service like Gmail or Yahoo! Mail. Third party email services might look less professional, but you do not have to worry so much, as you emails are in a safe place outside your host. Thus if the hosting company encounters any problems you are safe 
It depends only on the level of professionalism you need and on your own judgement. If you regard your email messages as very valuable always back them up. It might help you one time in the future! Don’t forget, that your files and messages are hosted on hardware outside your reach by a web hosting company. Hardware can brake down and no back up could be available. It’s always better to be prepared
Have a nice day and good luck in the next week!
Image: jscreationzs / FreeDigitalPhotos.net
No related posts.
Comments are closed.