WordPress Training: Backup and Recovery
I am running an online training session to teach all WordPress blogs owners how to create a robust backup of their site, and probably more importantly how to recover the archive in the event of a failure.
If you would like to learn how to protect your blog posts, hard earned comments and links from a blog failure and then how to recover them, then this is the course for you.
Format
The training will take the form of an online webinar using gotomeeting.com with me delivering a presentation on backup and recovery along with practical sessions showing you how to backup and recover on a real WordPress installation.
There are limited placed of 15 seats on this course due to limitations of the software I use, so please book early to avoid disappointment.
Agenda
The agenda for the course is:
Introduction
Backup
- Why Backup
- What to Backup
- How Often
- How to Backup – practical session
- Backup Plugins
- Archiving Backups
- Testing Your Backup
Recovery
- When to recover
- Before You Recover
- How to recover – practival session
- Testing Your Recovery has worked
Q & A Session
After Course Support
I will supply a video recording of the training session to all participants, so you can review the training at your own pace, I will also provide email support on backing up and recovering your site.
It is expected that the session will take approximately one hour for the training plus the Q & A session at the end.
Training Details
Date: Thursday 29 October 2009
Time: 17:00 London time, 12:00 New York, 09:00 Los Angeles
Cost: $29
Guarantee
If you are not completely satisfied with the course, I offer a no quibble money back guarantee.
Book A Slot
To book a slot on the course click on the course, click on the buy now icon below, upon receipt of your payment I will confirm your place on the course.
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Keeping Fat Content Off Your Site
To make sure your blog works as efficiently as possible, it is a good idea to keep fat content off you site and to host and stream that content from a more robust platform.
What is fat content
Fat content is content from your blog which takes up a large amount of bandwidth to serve up. Multiply this large bandwidth requirement with a large number of blog readers and you could be in trouble.
Examples of fat content are:
- Video
- Audio files e.g. podcasts
- large documents such as PDF files
- Large images
These are usually very large files and steaming/downloading them to your audience takes substantial amounts of resource compared to a static blog post or page.
Why Keep It Off Your Site
These types of files take up huge amounts of bandwidth, if you hosting account is not of a high quality (that’s my way of saying you are cheap and bought the least expensive hosting product) your bandwidth allocation will be throttled and access to your site will slow or even, in extreme cases, crash because there is not enough band width to serve up your content
Another reason to host content off-site is that your server will have a finite number of users sessions allocated to it, serving up a web page takes a session, sends the static content then releases the session back to the pool, a video will hold open that session for much longer increasing the chance that you will run out of sessions and your server will start to reject new users.
Where to keep it
If you are not going to host it on your blog, where else can you host this fat content? There are a number of options, you can host it on one of the many free web 2.0 type services or you can take advantage of more robust hosting solutions which charge a fee, let’s look at these options in depth.
Free services
The free services at your disposal are sites such as Youtube, Vimeo, Flickr and Google docs, these systems allow you to upload your fat content to their services,make them to take the hit to serve up the work you have produced and then to embed this on your blog.
There are plugins to embed content from the more popular systems on your blog. This means that the content will appear on your system as if you are hosting it, but the third party takes all the pain of serving it up.
Paid Services
To create a more robust hosting solution, you may want to invest in a more expensive hosting program from your hosting provider. Look at virtual private servers or for hosting solutions offering unlimited bandwidth.
Another system to consider it Amazon S3. Amazon have create an incredibly robust infrastructure to host their e-commerce platform. They have now opened up this infrastructure for people outside of their organisation to use, one component of their service called Amazon Web Services is S3.
S3 allows you to create your own bucket or internet facing container where you can store your fat files. These are then served up from their infrastructure.
The beauty of S3 over the free services is that you can secure your files as well. For example if your fat content is for a premium audience, you can use pre-signed URLS and access control lists to control access.
The cost of S3 is very low, you pay by the amount downloaded, current pricing can be seen at http://aws.amazon.com/s3/#pricing
I will be writing more about s3 in the near future. Please subscribe to my RSS feed to be notified when I do this.
Examples Of Where to Host Your Content
Over and above S3 which can host any type of content, here are some examples of the sites you could use to host your fat content.
Video – Youtube, Viddler, Vimeo
Images – Flickr, Picassa
Documents – Google docs
Further Reading
If you are having performance problems, you may want to read my blog post on performance tuning WordPress.
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Migration Complete
Sorry for any problems my hosting migration may have caused you when trying to access the site.
I know I have missed a couple of emails, my redirections were not working correctly.
I will be writing up a post about my migration I had a couple of real issues and hopefully I can stop anyone else out there having the same problems.
Now I am on my new server, I can move forward with my new projects including the WordPress Owners Club, more about that very soon.
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