Comments on: Keeping our websites up to date is becoming quite the chore

By: Nurul Azis

Nurul Azis — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:59:46 +0000

I am a blogspot user and recently I have new site with wordpress, since I do not know how to do back up (online offline) or upgrade I haven’t done it, soon I’ll ask the hosting customer care to do it for me (I’m afraid of making mistakes. Looks like it’s so important to update. Thanks, good to read this article:-)

By: Tricia

Tricia — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:25:42 +0000

Jean Luc – well two of them are my husbands so I guess I only have 15 … but I do all the maintenance on all 17 blogs, help my husband with his posts and maintain a Joomla CMS website as well as a HUGE html based website … so 19 sites in all that I have to try to constantly keep up to date internally and externally. No wonder I’m chained to my computer for about 18 hours each day. LOL

By: Jean-Luc Picard

Jean-Luc Picard — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:35:54 +0000

You have 17 blogs? How do you do it?

By: Meeting People

Meeting People — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:47:52 +0000

Ugh! All this talk about backing up sites has gotten me into a paranoid frenzy! Must…back…up…now!

By: tmongan

tmongan — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:21:11 +0000

Back ups are extremely important. A mundane & boring task until the stuff hits the fan….then its time to pray that the backup worked!! I back my site up on a external drive nightly!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:51:08 +0000

I think it is best to have a back up in case something happens. However, if you have a lot of blogs to maintain, a schedule of once a week might do so as not to consume a lot of your time and you can do other stuff. I must say, I thought that I have a lot of stuff in my hand but reading your post and 17 blogs to maintain– I am impressed!

By: Damien

Damien — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:27:30 +0000

Thank goodness it’s not just me that has the same problem.

I only have a handful of sites and blogs and try as best I can to keep posting or content up-to-date. As I sit here in bed at 11.24pm looking for people that have the same problem.

I use wordpress and XSitePro for my sites and only back up these sites to my PC.

I have set myself up a to do list for the up-keep of my sites and it seems to work quite well.

By: Patrick Oden

Patrick Oden — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 09:11:34 +0000

I feel your pain! I don’t have nearly as many sites to keep up, but even with my half-dozen or so, it takes forever. Some just fall by the wayside for weeks or months at a time.

How much time does it take you to manage 17 blogs? That must be quite a time-consuming chore.

Anyway. All of my web sites are PHP/HTML/CSS. I use Dreamweaver CS4 to create and manage all of them. Even my blog sites. I find that Dreamweaver is an excellent content management system that gives me absolute control. I back up my sites to my computer and to an external hard drive. Probably once every couple of months. I don’t do it constantly, because I’m just not afraid of losing anything, I guess. Maybe I should be more paranoid, but I’m not.

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:12:24 +0000

Well, I use a CMS (my own, actually) that doesn’t need lots of plugins due to most functionality being in the core. So I only have to update my sites every month or two.

But I thought this was going to be a post about thinking up new content for a blog, which can be a problem too.

As for online backups, I just set up a weekly backup for each of my sites and download the backups as often as I have time. No WordPress, no plugins, it works well for me