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There are billions of blogs out there, and to differentiate from the crowd, we have to really provide good useful educational content that readers are seeking.
Yep, sometimes all readers want are just some plain good O fashioned blogs with no fluff solid content. I like to think I'm moving towards that direction. At least that is my aim, which is to offer some value back to the readers here who take the time to drop by (THANK YOU!).
I've looked around and found some blogs that are definitely worth taking a peek. As usual, since this site is mainly about Business, Finance and Internet Marketing, I shall keep my recommendations confined to within these few areas. They may not be the best known blogs out there for now but the quality that is present in all of them merits a mention.
Finance and Investment
Yes, you heard me right. This is a serious matter. If you have not back up your work or data for some time, or god forbid, not at all, please do it NOW!
I'm a firm believer in the importance of backing up. Why? Cos' past experiences tell me so!
I actually have friends who tell me that they don't bother backing up. Their rationale, or should I say, excuse, is that they won't be so unlucky to meet with a database or computer failure. One even told me that he don't believe in backing up! Yikes!
Let me tell you flat out, in all honesty, if you are one of those that have never ever back up your stuffs before, you are an ACCIDENT waiting to happen. When the fateful day comes, you will be crying, swearing and cursing that you are so unlucky. Sorry, but you cannot blame anyone but yourself. So don't take any chances. Buy a portable hard disk to back up your work or stand the risk of losing everything!
Let me recount some of my experiences with you to highlight the importance of backing up.
In the first instance, while working on the content of my friend's finance site, there were some problems that occurred which wiped out 2 weeks worth of data. You may think 2 weeks mean nothing, but I update the site daily with new information, therefore it meant a hell lot to me.
Unfortunately there was no backup, and I had to labor through the whole day to restore everything. I wasn't involved in technical and backend matters then, so I just had to grind my teeth and trudge on. Nothing I could do about it in this matter, other than being more convinced that ever of the fact that one will be royally screwed if he doesn't back up regularly.
In the second instance, my laptop suddenly gave me the dreaded 'blue screen of death'! The next thing I knew, my hard disk was gone! Kaput! No warning at all. At that time, I had everything in the laptop that was valuable to me. My lab reports, my investment documents, my pictures, my music files, my hard WORK!
Luckily, I bought a portable hard disk not long before that, and have been implementing a regular back up practice, hence I wasn't adversely affected, other than the inconvenience of bringing my laptop to the computer center for reinstallation.
In the last case, this very site you are seeing now just decided to go crazy on me. Yes, I don't know why but my WordPress database got deleted, and I couldn't access my site at all! A check with my cPanel revealed that the database was gone, and I had no clue how it happened!
Again, very very luckily for me, I had the very useful and handy WP Backup plugin with Cron installed, which enabled scheduled regular backup, which will then be automatically sent to my mail. Easy peasy. No fuss. No hassle. No fiddling with MySQL and phpAdmin. All on automation mode. At that time, I scheduled the backup to be done every week, and it so happened that the database failure occurred one day after the scheduled back up, therefore I only lost 1 day of work. Really have to thank my lucky stars.
Since then, I up the backup frequency to be done on a daily basis. Overkill? Not at all. Given that I do update this site frequently, I'm not going to take any chances.
I've talked pretty much, but lets recap again shall we?
- Backup regularly - it's a form of insurance. Shit happens, so don't be an accident waiting to happen.
Image Credit: research.soe.purdue.edu
There are billions of blogs out there, and to differentiate from the crowd, we have to really provide good useful educational content that readers are seeking.
Yep, sometimes all readers want are just some plain good O fashioned blogs with no fluff solid content. I like to think I'm moving towards that direction. At least that is my aim, which is to offer some value back to the readers here who take the time to drop by (THANK YOU!).
I've looked around and found some blogs that are definitely worth taking a peek. As usual, since this site is mainly about Business, Finance and Internet Marketing, I shall keep my recommendations confined to within these few areas. They may not be the best known blogs out there for now but the quality that is present in all of them merits a mention.
Finance and Investment
