Backups can save your life. Sounds scary does it? But it’s true. Think about it for a minute and come back and read that again.
How can backups save your life? Lets take the example of a hospital that has your records on file. Now lets assume you were allergic to latex. You get admitted to the hospital for appendicitis and tell them of your allergy. While a surgery room is being prepped for you the computers crash and there is no data backup. By this time the admitting staff cannot find you to make your file again.
A nurse comes in to prep you for surgery and she starts to clean the area where you are going to have the incision. But she’s wearing latex gloves. Do you get the picture?
Yes it’s a fantastic scenario that should never happen (which is why they still use paper files and bracelets to identify allergies). But that’s not the point. The point is that backups are necessary and need to be done as often as possible.
Yes backing up your website manually sucks. It takes time and effort and requires you to remember to run the backup.
You could have a backup server that runs automated backups for you. I have one, but of course there’s the cost and maintenance of the server. Just because it’s a backup server doesn’t mean it doesn’t have to be updated.
So you’re looking for a cheaper solution.
Welcome to NiceBackup. NiceBackup works on the windows desktop and will download backups from any cPanel based server that you have.
So what if your server goes down and you want to move hosts? You have a backup.
What if your host decides not to pay their bills and the server gets shut down? You have a backup.
What if your host got taken away from the FBI or secret service? You have a backup.
All of the above scenario’s have happened. And some of them recently. Search on WebHostingTalk for the following horror stories regarding web hosts
- AlphaRed is a very large host who was down for over a week due to billing/legal issues. You can read some information about this host on Google News as well.
- Qoozz.com offered daily backups on their website. Their server crashed more than two weeks ago and backups for most clients were not available.
- Zone.net offered backups on their website. One of their servers crashed and due to issues, it took almost a week for some users to get backups. Some users were not able to get recent backups at all.
- SellWhm/grabyourhosting/RalphC closed up one host and denied service to his users, started another one and it crashed and was unable to provide backups and then attempted to start another host which was thankfully shut down due to bad publicity.
- ctn1.net just closed up shop and didn’t notify users.
These are real horror stories that could happen at any host. And if you wanted your data from any of them you would be out of luck. Your site would be gone and you would be left with nothing. It would be even worse if you ran a dynamic website like IndexU because any changes that were made online without a backup would be lost.
And a simple little program that runs in the system called NiceBackup could have saved you and your website.
