VaultPress Saved Me This stretch

WordPress’ backup system is a great insurance policy.

I’ve been using WordPress’ official backup system VaultPress since a few days following it launched. I like how simple it is, backing up your entire WordPress blog constantly without any interaction.

This stretch my $40-a-month subscription paid off. I got an instant message from a reader notifying me that they couldn’t read any of my articles. Confused, I went to the site and had no problem seeing the articles. It turns out they were using Internet Explorer, which had a problem, whereas my Firefox browser didn’t.

Since the reader just started having the problem that day, I looked back to see what changes I had made to my site. I added two ads earlier in the day, so I figured that was the problem. Yet I didn’t have a backup of my theme from ahead of making the changes. I was struggling to find the exact problem in the code.

VaultPress to the rescue. I logged into VaultPress, which had an hourly backup of my entire site. I downloaded the template files from ahead of I made the changes, uploaded it, and presto — problem solved.

If you have a WordPress blog of any importance, I highly recommend this service.