Keeping my websites up to date is becoming a pain!
I have one very large HTML based website that I’m working on updating today and it’s taking forever. Yes I’m using an HTML program to do it … but it’s still pretty much manual work.
Then .. it seems like a lot of the plugins that I use on our WordPress blogs are being updated every few days … anyone that uses the All in one SEO plugin will know what I mean. LOL Not to mention the fact that there’s yet another WordPress update. At least WordPress and plugin updates have gotten a lot easier in the last year or so … but still, when you have 17 blogs to manage it’s still a lot of work.
I have one plugin that I used to love, but lately it isn’t working well on half my blogs. It’s the WordPress Database backup plugin. It sends me scheduled backups for about half my sites, but doesn’t email me the backups for the rest. Now that’s frustrating! The worst part is that I can’t find a good replacement for this plugin (even though it still works fine for manual backups).
Speaking of backups … I’m thinking of not only backing up my websites on a regular basis to my computer or a storage device, but also looking into an online backup service.
I’ve had problems in the past (long long ago) where some of my sites were hacked … so I’m a real stickler for keeping things up to date and backed up just in case something happens again.
Do you get tired of doing the constant updates on your WordPress website? (and possible any other type of CMS or HTML website) And … Do you make backup copies of your sites on a regular basis? If not – why not?
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 🙂
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.
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.
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!
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!
Ugh! All this talk about backing up sites has gotten me into a paranoid frenzy! Must…back…up…now!
You have 17 blogs? How do you do it?
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
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:-)