Comments on: Trusting Others With Your Online Presence

By: newscoma

newscoma — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:41:59 +0000

Database backups are a very good idea and I also agree with LL.
Email your stuff to yourself. I lost a great deal of content guest posting at now defunct website.
Very frustrating.

By: lovable liberal

lovable liberal — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:20:32 +0000

Meanwhile, if you’re on a big blog site where you can’t control your own destiny, as I am, email everything back to yourself. For Blogger, you’ll only risk your updates to published items, which don’t get remailed.

By: emeryjay

emeryjay — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:51:39 +0000

Self sufficiency is great, but a good backup plan is needed. Daily backups help recover the data if the site is hacked or crashed. At worst, you will lose only the day’s work. There are plenty of howtos on the net to learn that.

And you need a security plan these days. The complexity of security just about rules out self hosting. The real key is knowing your hosting company. If you have problems, find another. There are plenty. It may cost a few bucks more, but go with a big name. I’ve discovered that it takes more than writing skill to preserve your writing.

By: newscoma

newscoma — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:48:15 +0000

Very good point, Ron. Self-sufficiency is key.

By: Ron

Ron — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:45:54 +0000

Whenever possible, if you can, take control of your online destiny. Own the domain names and hosting yourself, back up EVERYTHING you put up on the internet if it means anything to you, and whatever you do, don’t put faith in other people once a website folds that the content will be up forever.

I made that mistake once, and it’s never gonna happen again.