Sep
9
Blog Backup? What is that?
This afternoon I had an interesting call from a long time blogger who had installed WordPress on a server in his office more than a year ago. He moved his data from an online blogging service and enjoyed the control he had with his own server. This morning his server crashed and he lost everything – almost three years of daily posts that he will never be able to get back. He thought that his tape backup system was running, but for some reason it did not capture the MySQL data.
We talked about what we do at Weblogs Work and I explained that we are not really a ‘blog hosting service’ instead we are more of a new media PR and marketing firm. I did share with him the design and architecture of our blog hosting platform. How does everyone else safeguard their blogs? Check out the WordPress Codex. Here is how we do it:
For most of our clients a shared WordPress environment is appropriate and we locate their blog on the Shared Blog Server. The Shared Blog Server serves up the blog on the internet and two other servers run the PHP databases that power WordPress. Each night the server executes an automatic data dump of the text in the blog. That data is replicated on the Blog Backup Server and that server is replicated on the RoboCopy Backup Cluster on a separate network. Each week the server executes a complete backup of all data, html and css and that data is replicated on the Blog Backup Server and that server is replicated on the RoboCopy Backup Cluster. For larger, more popular blogs we dedicate a server for the blog. In certain cases we have load balancers that can allow multiple servers to seem like a single blog to viewers. Any comments?
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