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Cloud WordPress Backups Are Only Good When They’re Independent

Cloud WordPress backups are good when they are independent. They might not be if you’re using your personal cloud storage accounts(for example on Dropbox, Drive or Amazon S3). Read on to know how and why you shouldn’t do it. We know that following best practices to make WordPress backups means that your backups should not…

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Why Managed WordPress Backups Are Better Than Standalone Backup Plugins

Reaching for your spare tire, only to find out that it is not working; or worse, that it is missing altogether is unacceptable. WordPress backups are a little more complicated than changing car tires and just like your car tires, there is a lot riding on them too. Your lifetime’s work or the hard-earned reputation…

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What You Should Know About Making Daily WordPress Backups

Daily WordPress backups offer a balance between minimizing data loss & minimizing load on server/site. Is it, however, the most optimum WordPress backup frequency for your WordPress site? Here’s what you need to know about the different methods; and the pros and cons of each of them. Daily WordPress Backups Who is it for? Daily…

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Are There Downsides to Frequent WordPress Backups?

Frequent WordPress backups can minimize data loss and thereby greatly help your business. However, they can be resource-intensive and affect your WordPress site performance, if not done right.   Frequent backups present some obvious advantages which are particularly important for WordPress (WP) sites. Content creation takes some planning, effort, and resources. Losing such content may…

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Common Security Mistakes WordPress Site Owners Make

WordPress has become the most preferred content publishing platform online, and its popularity is continuously growing. For hackers, this means a bigger target with greater payoffs. Are you, as a WordPress site owner committing basic security mistakes that make it easier for them? WordPress is the most popular platform to build websites on, and its…

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Hardware Failures Which Can Crash Your WordPress Site

The hardware used by your WordPress hosting provider can give you a lot of grief and be heavy on your wallet too. But, do you know what the issues are, and how a robust WordPress backup solution can help you? Most of us think about subscription plans, security, and many other details when thinking about…

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WordPress Backup To Dropbox: Pros, Cons & What You Need to Know

Making WordPress Backup to Dropbox seems like an attractive option due to ease of use & low cost.  However, is it the best practice & will restores be as easy as backups? There are generally two ways you can make a WordPress backup to Dropbox. The first way requires two processes to be completed. You…

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Do you have a disaster recovery plan for your WordPress site?

Why do you need it? Can your business continue to function if you were to lose your data? If your answer is a clear no, then having a disaster recovery plan is a must for you. At some point down the road, your data is going to be in danger. It could be a machine…

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Tech Crunch Hacked by OurMine: Are Our Websites Safe at All?

As a lot of us following technology news might know by now, TechCrunch was hacked today, by OurMine. The message left by hackers was caught just before the post was taken down: According to OurMine’s website, the organisation is made of “professional hackers and vulnerability assessors” who “only care about the security and privacy of…

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Of Censorship, and the ‘Walled Gardens’ of Content

Fans of Dennis Cooper, the experimental artist and writer, have expressed concern over Google’s removal of the artist’s Blogger account and blog of 14 years. What’s worse, his Gmail account, the medium through which most of his correspondence was conducted was also rendered inaccessible.The writer’s blog, was a choice destination for followers of transgressive, avant…

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