If so, you can have those nightly backups gzipped and sent to an email address (suggestion: set up a Gmail account that only stores your database backups). I get daily backups of certain parts of my site just in case this horror story happens to me. Feel free to get in touch if you’d like more info on how to do this.

Currently, I do have the wp-db-backup plugin installed and running. Unfortunately, as I came to find out, having just the posts backed up was not enough. Even with my database intact, some of my web files were corrupted (the PHP files) and all of the pictures would have been missing also!

Luckily, my blog traffic has returned to normal today, so that was fairly quick. I’m doing daily backups now!

Again, thanks for visiting!

Don’t be too worried, as long as they can get your site up and running within a few days, your traffic will come back. There are actually a lot of free hosting services out there that might be better than the one you’re currently using. I’ll try to send you some links!

Good luck and don’t be jealous! Your blog will do fine, everyone has to go through these rough times!

Glad to see you back up and running! I can only imagine the feeling when you found out. Recently my entire SQL database disappeared from my hosting service, only to reappear an hour later with their apologies. Fortunately I hadn’t launched my blog yet, so the information that [might have] been lost wasn’t detrimental. I now [try] to backup regularly.

You mentioned you use WordPress; I was curious as to whether you’ve installed the database backup plugin. Thus far it’s proven very useful for me. The plugin can be downloaded at http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/wp-db-backup/

All in all though, glad you’re back. I’ve been reading your blog for a couple months now and always find it incredibly helpful!

My site,http://technoworld.uni.cc, is down from 23rd of October and is currently down now also as you might have experienced.
Google got my site on 2nd no when i searched for technoworld but now I cant see it even on the 3rd page
I used to have the most search traffic from the query technoworld
:’(

I never had huge traffic like urs ,normally 150 page views a day 50 subscribers .

But but , I am so sad cant say nything.I am consoling my father to have a paid host, he agrees but we dont have credit card.
So problems and problems and problems , that too when I was getting popular as I got 2 of my articles in lifehacker and 1 in downloadsquad and was starting to get comments (((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((

yeah,But I had daily backups of posts and had all images backups plugins themes

Someone please help me!

going for a trip to dal housie.Will be back on 8th:-) hope to see my site also back by the time

P.S : I am getting jealous of you.I havent written nything from so many days and you can write on ur blog

I’m glad to be back too! hahaha That was quite scary indeed. To answer your question about automatic recovery or restoration of backups, the answer right now is yes and no. In my case, the backups were actually corrupt, so I still had to manually upload and replace files.

Had the files not been corrupt, they actually did restore my files to the original directory, so my site would be been up and running just fine. I’m sure that most large hosting companies will try to automatically restore your site in case of a failure. But as you can see, it’s good to have your own backup because you can’t count on them sometimes!

Assuming you had a remote backup of the entire blog with the database, and your primary server crashed, can all the files be restored automatically without human intervention?

Or is it that one has to always manually restore/upload the files via local or remote backups? In this case if someone is on vacation for 3-4 days and does NOT check on their blog, the backup would not be restored and traffic still be lost, regardless if you have a backup or not.

“Automatic restore and synchronize”.. is there anything like that for web sites or blogs?

I hope I make sense.