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Site Maintenance, or how to avoid losing your data - and your mind

Posted by Lisa Kipps-Brown
Lisa Kipps-Brown
Lisa Kipps-Brown founded Glerin in 1996, has been a web developer since 1995, and is bilingual in Spanish.In 1...
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on 28 January 2011 in Planning

We all know we need to keep our websites backed up, but let's be honest: how many of you actually follow through and keep a current backup?  And I don't mean just files; you need to backup your database also.  Good intentions don't count when your site has been hacked or your server explodes.  We can take the pain out of backing up your site, but you need to set it up now - not after your data has been lost.

If you already subscribe to one of our maintenance packages you don't need to worry because your data is already being protected.  If you don't, though, here's what we can do for you:  we'll set up a schedule to backup your site once a week (or more often if you have a site that changes frequently), and your complete backup (files and database) will be stored on our off-site storage servers to give your data an extra measure of protection.

Your backups will be made through our scalable, high-speed, low-cost web-based service that's designed specifically for online backup and archiving of data; the data is stored on redundant servers in multiple data centers.  In other words, if there's a disaster in one data center, your data will still be intact at another.

Anyone who's had a major data loss will tell you that it always happens when you least expect it; you're not going to get a warning saying "alert, alert, your data will be lost soon."  Be honest, though.  Chances are good that even if you did, you'd find a convenient excuse to not do a backup right then and there; how many times have we ignored the "low fuel" warnings on our cars?  I'm just as guilty as you, which is why I have all of my data backed up automatically.

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Lisa Kipps-Brown founded Glerin in 1996, has been a web developer since 1995, and is bilingual in Spanish.

In 1997, before e-commerce software was widely available, she developed an online store for Mauch's Sailboat Guide that resulted in the Guide being sold to customers on every continent in the world except Antarctica. These books were also some of the first independently published books to be sold on Amazon.com. In 1999, to begin moving the guide from a print to digital medium, she developed a searchable web database of thousands of sailboat model specs that served as an adjunct to the guide.

Lisa provides a unique combination of experience in both business and design and development. She holds an Accounting degree from Virginia Tech, was a member of the Board of Directors of the Industrial Development Authority of Halifax County for 4 ½ years and served as Secretary/Treasurer for 3 of those. She was on the founding committee for the Riverstone Energy Center and Modeling & Simulation Center of Excellence. A founding board member of The Virginia Coalition, she has been a member of the Technology Committee for the Halifax County Chamber of Commerce, the Economic Development Committee for the Town of Halifax, the Southern Piedmont Technology Council, the Rural Broadband Technology Council, and the Last Mile Fiber Optic Initiative for Halifax.

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