Comments on: My Former Blog Host ‘Accidentally’ Deleted My Blog! (And How I Fixed it)

By: Gloson

Gloson — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:29:50 +0000

Hi Marie!

Thank you very much for your very informative comment!

I strongly agree with you that we shouldn’t be fully dependent on our hosting! Because even though the hosting is good, they might have problems too.

So we should always make a backup just in case the host’s backup doesn’t work, and also so that you can restore it by yourself instead of waiting for the host to provide it.

Thanks for sharing the Tao of Backup! It is really informative and entertaining. LOL. I really enjoyed it!

Cheers!
Gloson

By: Marie Culver

Marie Culver — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:14:46 +0000

I love Hostgator and I don’t doubt you will enjoy it too.

However, I wouldn’t recommend anybody depending on them or any other host to be responsible for backups. No matter how good the hosting is.

One, many hosts that include backup services have caveats, like file limits. Too many files or too large and you’re on your own. Hostgator has an “inode” limit (one file of any type equals one inode).

Two, even if a host gets back to you in an hour, that’s still an hour that your site is down when you could have fixed things yourself in a third of the time or less.

Three, there is no guarantee that a host backup is even that good or readily available. Sometimes files do get corrupted, you might need a backup right before the next backup cycle (you may have made many site changes by then), or if the host is having issues, your files are out with your site.

It’s better to take other steps and be able to verify that your backups are not only there, but viable for usage. An interesting site about backing up files is the Tao of Backup (taobackup.com). Ultimately it promotes a backup utility but it’s both entertaining and informative.
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By: alan tan

alan tan — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:05:13 +0000

Thanks for the tip.

My hosting did the backup everyday, so I don’t have to backup often

By: Farrhad A

Farrhad A — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:19:01 +0000

Whoa! I would freak out if such a thing happened to me.

Smaller hosts, can be a bad option at times.

By: Shubham

Shubham — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 06:52:49 +0000

Thanks..Gloson.! I too Love your Blog layout..!
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By: Gloson

Gloson — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 09:51:04 +0000

Hi Shubham!

I’m glad that you are now making backups every week. Backups are very important and losing all the hard work is painful!

By the way, cool tech blog you’ve got there .

By: Shubham

Shubham — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 09:46:41 +0000

Hey Gloson..Some pretty nice tips..! Liked them..! I actually started a website 3 years back and then every few months my hosting company reset their server (guess so)..so in this process my all the data was lost…! It took off all my energy to restore my website(no backup’s). And sadly it didn’t continued more than a year.!
Now i am back in blogging, started 2 months back..and i make a backup every week..!
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By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:57:44 +0000

I’m actually having some issues with my blog right now. Besides the issues I’m having, however, I’m looking around for how to design my blog as I website is now. I just launched my new website today! Backups are always a good idea and in my opinion they should be done at least once a week. That’s pretty good amount of time to me.

By: Gloson

Gloson — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:31:18 +0000

Cool! My father knew that. But I wanted to transfer it myself to acquire some hosting-transfering knowledge .

By: Michael Aulia

Michael Aulia — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:46:40 +0000

Glad that you finally joined in the HostGator family like I do

I found it funny though because you did the transfer manually where you could simply asked HostGator to do all the transfer for you for free (I did that)
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