IM NewsWatch had server problems a couple of weeks ago. We were down for a week. It was a miserable 10 days.

Why the long delay in getting it back running after the break-down? Well, we had out data backed up, but our software that runs the site had not been backed up and it it had to be re-built.

We learned our lesson. Your whole site needs to be backed up.

If you are one of the 76% of WordPress users who don’t back up your site, you are courting disaster. There are many ways your site can fail:
• Hard disks fail.
• Your site can get hacked.
• You can install incompatible WP core, plugin or theme upgrades

If any of these occur on your site, the result is loss of traffic, reduced trust, a search engine ranking drop and ultimately your revenue declines (maybe to never recover.)

Dr Alex Davidovic has a sophisticated software solution to your WordPress backup problems, WP Backup Boss.

This new WordPress plugin allows you to create,either manually or automatically, an unlimited number of snapshots of your WordPress site, and store them on:
1. Your local drive,
2. Amazon S3,
3. Google Drive,
4. Dropbox or,
5. FTP/SFTP to anywhere you like.

Now, you can have an easy way to restore your site if something accidental or something malicious takes your site down.

Having the working snapshot of your site that WP Backup Boss provides means that your revenue, traffic and rankings are all protected.

Have you ever heard of the “WordPress white screen of death”?

When this happens, all the pages show nothing but a blank screen. It can happen for the simplest of reasons. For example, after the routine WP update from 3.9 to 4.0, or other “ordinary” update.

The usual suspects are your theme and your plugins; they haven’t been upgraded to be compatible with the new version of WordPress. So the usual troubleshooting procedure is to turn off all the plugins and change the active theme.

That may solve it (although your site no longer looks or acts like it should, until all the plugins and the theme have been upgraded.)

But sometimes even this radical surgery doesn’t fix the problem. How on earth do you get your site back to life when everything else fails?

You could save yourself all this heartache if you install WP Backup Boss.

Just restore the last working site snapshot. And you are running again. It can be done in minutes.

Whether your problem is hardware failure, software incompatibilities or malicious hacking, a good backup, recently created and readily available, is your way out of the mess.

Check our Dr. Davidovic’s automated backup solution here: WP Backup Boss

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