Mike Wilks' Blog

I came across Backupify on some podcast or other. Their concept is fantastic – we all trust much of our data to the cloud now and Backupify backs up cloud data. Backupify is free until the end of January which also helps. The supported services have must people covered, I have started to use it for backing up WordPress, Twitter and Google Docs but it does other things.

Setup is dead easy and once you have authorised your accounts you just sit back and it does the hard work with daily or weekly backups. When I first signed up I had a couple of issues: the Google Docs backups just contained a line saying not authorised and my Twitter account had been ignored. I deleted the Google Docs accounts and re-added, I also got a reply on Twitter from Backupify so I am not sure whether they fixed it or I did – either way it works now. The only slight issue I have is that my WordPress has not backed up more than once, this may well be because it hasn’t changed but positive confirmation would be nice.

I have no affiliation with Backupify other than being a user of it and thinking it is a very cool concept that deserves to succeed. They also answered a tweet on Christmas day which makes them as sad as me!

Well WordPress 2.7 is quite nice, lots different from a dashboard perspective. I’ve also updated with a new theme which I have edited slightly to remove some of the “Howdys”. I think it looks much cleaner but I suspect I’ll end up changing again soon.

Blogging sort of passed me by, I never really saw the point. I’m still now sure I do but the technology is interesting (probably much more interesting than the content). I’ve used my domain for years just for email but I’ve enabled hosting on it now, once all of the DNS propagates it will probably work a bit better than it does now.

I might have been satisfied with a free WordPress account but someone already had mikewilks.wordpress.com but hey I have mikewilks.com, now with WordPress hosted here.