How to Backup your Blog

Backup is one of the most important things every blogger or a webmaster should do regularly. Backup is important in various of ways, mostly to secure your online data to be restored once when things goes wrong – believe me, they usually do!

Your hosting provider can cause you a lot of trouble. If they have a problem, than you would have it too. And all of that is directly affected to your website or a blog. It is not uncommon that hosting companies accidently delete your files or database – and that is the main reasons why you should backup your website at regular basis!

In the other hand, your website can cause hosting provider to close your account and ban you without any warnings or announcements! According to reviews for the most popular hosting providers on the internet, this is a very common practice.

So, these are main reasons why do hosting providers close their accounts:

• Resource Consumption – It is probably the main reason why most accounts gets banned by hosting providers on the internet. This is the most common reason if you use the shared hosting plans. Most hosting providers would close your account if your website consume more than 10% of the overall resources per server.
• Bandwidth Limitation – Well, today when the most hosting providers offer you an unlimited bandwidth resources, your account probably gets banned if you get a huge amount of bandwidth than usual. I don’t know why, but this is a very common reason too!

These are two main reasons to close your hosting account. Fortunately, you can act to highly reduce your resource and bandwidth consumptions:

• How to Reduce your Bandwidth – On this article, I have written how do I reduced my bandwidth consumption to more than 300%! I have been using some proven methods which can be easily enabled on any WordPress powered blog.
• Online CSS Optimization Tools – I have tested 15 different online CSS optimization tools which can help you to optimize your CSS styles and speed-up your website. This also can strongly affect you to use less server resources and bandwidth for sure.
• Speed up your Website – There, I have show you how to successfully optimize and speed up your website load time. Optimizing your CSS, JavaScript and other important parts of your website may highly speed up your website and use much less resources too.

Additionally, you maybe want to see how to choose web hosting provider for your website or a blog. Choosing the right hosting provider means less problems for you and your websites. Choosing the right hosting is a very important step for every serious webmaster or a blogger.

How to  Backup My Website?

Well, I have gone too far from the main purpose of this post. That is mostly because I wanted to show you how to greatly act to stop these things to happen. Now we are going little deeper in this problem, showing you how to successfully backup your website or a blog.

There are many ways to backup your website or a blog. Through, they are different from system to system and here we will provide you some most popular ways to backup your website.

Blogging Systems

Today, most blogging systems have support for backup your own posts and comments easily and within the easy interface. I will show you the most basic ways to backup your WordPress or a Blogger (Blogspot) based blogs below:

WordPress Backup – Any WordPress-powered blog has this option. No matter is it a free or a self-hosted blog you can easily backup and restore your posts and comments with only a few clicks.

• WordPress Backup Guide – One of the most complete guides which show you how to backup your WordPress-powered blog easily. This is an official guide to backup your blog using some proven methods and which works with most hosting providers on the internet.
• WP-DB Backup – This is a WordPress plug-in which allows you to backup your MySQL database. This db contains all information about your website, including meta-tags, descriptions, posts, comments and other stuffs except an images, videos and uploaded files. This nice little plug-in allows you to send uploaded database to your email account (Gmail, Yahoo!, Windows Live…).
• Automatic WordPress Backup – This plug-in automatically backup your whole website to Amazon S3 servers! Through is not a free (Amazon S3), it would give you the online space for a very affordable prices. By the way, I am using this plug-in to backup all my blogs.

Blogspot Backup – A Blogger (Blogspot) blogs are much harder to completely backup and restore once you need them to. Anyway, you could do that using some clever methods and tricks. Easily backup your posts and comments.

• Ways to Backup your Blogspot Blog – A very good and informative post where you will learn 10 ways and techniques to backup your Blogspot based blog. A very good guide, specially for beginners and blogger amateurs.
• Blogger in Draft – Blogger in Draft service allows you to easily import and export your Blogger powered blog. You will find this feature under Settings tab in Blogger in Draft interface. You automatically backup your posts and comments using this technique!
• BlogBackupr – A specialized service which will try to backup your WordPress or a Blogger powered blogs easily. Works through RSS-feed and may work with other blogs (which have RSS feeds support). One of the most useful services out there for backup for sure.

Other Backup Services

Of course, you can always try to manually backup your website – no matter where it is hosted and which content management system it uses. Once you have your own manual backup prepared, you will need to store it securely online.

You will do that using following services, or popularly called online backup services:

• Amazon S3 – I am very satisfied with this service. Allows you to store GB’s of data and files on secured and reliable servers for a little price. Space and bandwidth on Amazon S3 is based on the micro-payment system – so you will pay only that much you use!
• iDrive Backup – With this service you will get 2 GB’s of full-featured online backup completely for free. Including features like an Automatic Backup, Archiving, Versioning, Continues Backup, Mapped Drive backup and much more…
• Dropbox – One of the most popular online backup and file synchronization services available on the internet. Gives you 2 GB’s of space completely for free! Works with most popular operating systems and have a very advanced client. Works with iPhone too!

If you do manual backups of your website, make sure to backup your files and your database! It is a very important thing – specially the database because it usually includes the most important parts of every website – articles, content, settings and comments!

Also, take a note to the special parts of your website like where do you store images (files), theme and design files, CSS styles and everything else you might need. Once you do a quality backup, it is a much easier to restore it if things goes wrong!

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