Comments on: Hackers, Crackers and Script Kiddies

By: fthomas

fthomas — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 05:07:15 +0000

Thanks for your comment Andrew, and I do have a two fold answer for you. First, if you go with a good hosting vendor that uses a good backup services, as mentioned in the article, you are almost golden.

Second, you will want to still draft a backup once a week or once every couple of weeks, depending on how often you update your installs. Take a look at my UBot software review post here: UBot Review – First Looks at the Web Automaton Tool UBot for more information on automating a full backup with this cool piece of software. I’m actually going to build a backup program with UBot to pull a backup to save locally on a weekly basis on all of my sites.

Hope that helps!

Frank

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:50:47 +0000

Thanks for pointing that info out Frank. There are so many things on the To Do list and quiet often the most important things like BACK UP get left out. I wonder if you could schedule these back ups?

By: fthomas

fthomas — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:11:03 +0000

Hey Max,

Thanks a bunch for your comment, and yes be sure you have this base covered. Be ready for backups. I’ve used the wordpress database backup before too, but I found it too much trouble when you have to replace more than one blog database. But it is better then nothing.

Best of luck

FRank

By: Max

Max — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:39:11 +0000

Thanks for this really useful post. I am using the “WordPress Database Backup” WP plugin to back up my blogs regularly and I have cpanel (I use Hostgator), but have not been conscientious enough to do a regular cpanel backup.
Next step is checking whether my cpanel offers R1Soft.
Thanks again for you post.
Max