In the wake of recent events and the forced rebuilding of my blog, I am faced with a bit of a quandry.
Do I allow this violation of my trust to cripple me, and resign myself to a blog hosted perpetually on wordpress.com, knowing full well that it reduces my control over design, plugins, analytics, and other fun aspects of blogging?
Or do I place my faith and effort into another hosting service, accepting the risk of losing all my data once again in trade for the freedom to do with my blog what I want?
I think I would like to find a decently-priced hosting service, I think I am ready for the plunge again. Or I will be, soon.
Who would you guys recommend?
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You should place your trust in another hosting service and backup regularly. You should set a recurring Google Calendar event of “backup blog” that sends you an email reminder weekly. You should also subscribe to your own blog via email via Feedburner via a GMail account so you’ll always have archived copies of all your blog posts.
Marina,
Good point, and a WP-backup would have been nice, I even did a couple there, but I need a full-on db dump which the man wouldn’t give me (because he never got back to me).
Ties into me never being able to access the backend for upgrades and whatnot.
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