Don’t Panic If Your Site Crashes, Be Prepared
If your website, blog or database supporting either your website or blog crashes, you will definitely have your work cut out for you, but there is no point in soiling your tranquility diapers. Take a deep breath, assuming the air is still clear and open up your back up plan book.
OK, you did come up with a back up plan right?
Your Back Up plan should have several things covered including the following items:
- An Alternate Hosting Solution in case your Host took a dump
- A soft copy backup of all your web pages
- A back up of yoru database kept both online and offline
- A back up of all of your image files
- Don’t forget a copy of your robot.txt files and .htaccess files
- backups of your email accounts
- Lists of important passwords including user id and password to your Pointing service in case you need to point to a new domain
- Copies of all plugins and recent upgrades ready for a rapid ftp upload and installation
- Plus, it never hurts to have an email copy of all of your content. Here is a nice low tech method for backing up your blog content as you create it.