Backup your blog, web, email and social networks

Don’t take chances; backup your blog, web, mail and social networks.

When we talk about creating backups for our files In most cases, we are referring to customer files that we have to deliver, company information, work done, programs and things that, in short, we store on the hard disk of the computer.

But what about what is stored in the cloud is it safe from any misfortune or problem, so that there can not be the slightest danger?

The truth is that the chances of something happening to you that you host in the cloud usually seem small. But, even if you work with a good server, I’ll preface my answer with a Spanish saying: “better safe than sorry”.

Why back up files in the cloud?

If we have a hosted website or blog on a web server, we may think that this is enough. However, we tend to give too much confidence to cloud services very efficient and well-known that, God forbid, at some point may give problems.

For example, a security flaw in the server due to a computer attack. Either it’s your problem: a spyware program gets into your computer, steals your FTP access password and they start damaging or manipulating your files to host whatever they want. Or you simply delete the index.html without realizing it and have to do it again.

If you lack a backup hosted elsewhere, you will lose what you have done so far.

What I recommend to improve your security

So, my recommendation for any company, freelancer or individual who has files in the cloud is as follows:

– Make a backup of your blog: in WordPress is very simple and there are plugins that help you do it. Save it on a different server or on a pen-drive, since it does not take up so much space.

– Make a backup of your website: have a basic backup of all your pages, including databases. Your server should provide you with a mechanism to do so. Don’t risk losing your page layout, your visitors’ comments, your database with products and customer information. In case of emergency, you would only have to copy and paste.

– Make a backup of your email: I don’t know if it’s happened to you, but do you know what it’s like to put your username and password in Gmail and the service doesn’t work, or your account has been temporarily cancelled? It’s happened to me: you’re climbing the walls! Nobody remembers Santa Barbara until it thunders. If you have important customer information there, please back it up.

– Backup your social networks: if your company is active in online marketing, you will have a lot of followers on Twitter, Facebook, etc. that you would not want to lose for anything in the world, as well as the tweets, images and posts you have made. Both services offer you a way to back them up and save them somewhere safe.

I hope you see clearly that it’s not just about backing up what’s hosted on your computer. Your business is not just what’s on your desktop, but everything in the cloud. If you have it stored in different places at the same time, it is much more difficult for one thing to be completely lost.

You may think that this is “obsessing” about the security in the online environment But think about it. A company that works professionally should take care of these aspects as a preventive measure. Because even if you have been 10 years without the slightest stumble, maybe tomorrow you can have a big problem and then it will be too late to do it.

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