Last week was a bad week, following on from one of my blogs being hacked I also experienced one of my forum accounts being accidentally deleted by our provider. It wasn’t just my host that was completely bloody incompetent, the backups I had of that site had also failed so in the end I had to resort to a backup from 2005, not good. So on the subject of backups, here’s the methods I use on other sites (and the old one now) and also some other suggestions.

A static site is one that once uploaded doesn’t change, this means you already have one backup on your local machine and to protect from multiple failures this should be backed up onto other Read More