Blogger Blogs Need Special Care
Blogger
is the most popular blogging platform among those who can’t afford to
purchase a hosting. Several other bloggers are out there who can afford to purchase hosting but still don’t want
to leave Blogger as they find it comfortable and working for them. But
it is a bitter truth that your Blogger blog is always at risk. It can be
deleted anytime by Google when you violate any of their TOS
and it has happened with several bloggers. So you need to take special
care of your blog by downloading regular backups. Along with backups, you must use your own domain with your Blogger blog, so you will be able to shift your domain with downloaded backup elsewhere if Google deletes it.
WordPress Blogs are Vulnerable to Hacking
Yes,
hackers can snatch your blog from you very easily when you are running
it on your own hosting. It doesn’t matter how much expert you are, still
there is a great risk. Hackers can break into your blog’s admin area
when they find a little chance. You can take some precautionary measures
to protect your WordPress blog from hackers,
but still there is a chance of being hacked is left. So the one and
only thing you can do to protect blog is to download regular backups of
your MySQL databases and the content in wp-content directory. It is not
always necessary that only hackers will snatch your blog from you, you
can damage it by your own mistakes also.
Several
bloggers are there who accidentally deleted their MySQL databases which
contain all posts, users details and other data except images and other
media. If your host is smart enough and does regular automatic backups,
then you can get your MySQL databases after deletion but you can’t
always expect this from your host. If you can’t download regular backups
by your own, then how anyone else can do it for you? So it is wise to
keep offline backups in your computer or anywhere else to ensure that
you are able to restore everything in case something goes wrong.
Goodness of WordPress, you can use plugins to keep automatic online backups of your WordPress blog.
Your Hosting Server May Crash Down
Your
blogs are hosted on computers (servers) and you must keep this fact in
mind that they may also crash. Big brands like Google, WordPress and
other famous hosting services
have great precautionary measures to protect online data but if you are
hosting your blog with a small host, then it is at risk. The server may
crash as our systems’ hard drives do sometimes and if it happens, you
will loss your content. In such a condition, a backup will act as
lifesaver!!
This may sound funny to
you but you must know that now a days people set up a small server in
their bed rooms, get a fast Internet connection and then launch their
hosting company. If you are their customer, how you can expect that your
online data is backed up regularly or it is safe? Just think twice.
Frequency of Backup Downloads
It
depends on how frequently you are updating your blog. If you make
frequent posts, then you must keep a high frequency of backup downloads.
Daily backups, twice a day or even more backups may be necessary for
you to ensure that you have the most recent backup to restore your
content if it is stolen from you. For some bloggers, even a weekly
backup works who occasionally update their blog. In simple words, the
higher the frequency of backup downloads, the lesser will be the loss.
From Where I Got Inspiration to Write this Post?
Although
I have discussed the importance of regular blog backups in my several
posts but this time, I decided to write a special post on this topic
after reading the expressions of bloggers at Bloggers.com. Charles
Lenoir, one of my friends, is a US blogger who initiated this question
by asking that What Would YOU Do If Suddenly Your Blog Was DELETED.