It doesn't make sense to backup your WordPress blog only to store that backup file on the same website. Because if you lose that website you're also going to lose that backup file. When it comes to backups it does pay to be paranoid, it does pay to assume that anything that can go wrong will. That way if everything does go wrong you can still get your website back. This is why as soon as you make a backup you should save it to your hard drive. But you should also save it to a remote location such...

I hope that you have heard of the concept of backing up your files, your website or even your WordPress blog. It's something that everyone needs to do but so few people do it. You need to backup your WordPress site because it's better safe than sorry, because you might get hacked and because you might need some kind of an old file or even to see how your WordPress site used to look.

You might have heard that saying, you're better safe than sorry. That means that it might not be fun...

You've finally decided that it's a good idea, in fact a great idea, to backup that WordPress blog. Now if anything goes wrong you have a copy somewhere at least you can put somewhere else. What features should you look for in a WordPress backup plugin? I've seen many plugins that overload you with features. Tell you it'll backup to S3, that it will backup to Rackspace, they add all kinds of fancy features. At the end of the day do you need all that fanciness or do you just need a backup plugin that...

Have you ever heard of these services called Amazon S3 and Dropbox? They are file storage services that are much more reliable than your computer's local hard drive. When you make a backup of your site you don't ever want to lose that backup. The real question is if your computer's hard drive crashes tomorrow will you lose anything? Will you lose months or years of old websites backups. The question should hopefully be no because hard drives crash, websites get bigger and you can easily restore...

You know that depending on your webhost you might not be able to actually backup your site. It's true. Many webhosts are simply not powerful enough to allow WordPress to back itself up because this involves backing up all the files, dumping the whole database and putting it all into one giant zip file. But luckily there are a few things to check about your webhost and you know in the next few minutes whether or not you are able to backup your site. If you aren't I would highly recommend you...