Backing up your web site is never fun, but it is something that we all must do. Thankfully, cPanel makes the process easy – but I could see where more than a few folks might be scared about the process.
To help those who are unsure how to get cPanel to backup their web sites I thought I would go through the process step by step.
How Can I Get Started Backing Up With cPanel?
First thing you must do is login into your account’s cPanel and click on the Backup icon. Backing up is a very crucial thing to do because you never know when the worst might happen, and having a good backup could be the difference between being down for a few hours or for a few days.
Now once you have made it to cPanel’s backup page you should see several options available. “Generate/Download Full Backup” (under Full Backups) will allow you to do what you need. It might take a while depending on the size of your web site to generate but once it does – download that and you are almost done.
From this same screen you can download the latest backup created, download your MySQL databases and also depending on your web host you might be able to download your mail settings too.
Now after clicking on “Generate/Download a Full Backup” link you will be given a few more choices. For most users you will back the backup destination to be your home directory. Make sure you have enough disk space to host the backup file. There are other options, but we will ignore them for now. Under e-mail address you can tell the server where to send the log of the backup status. Once everything is as it should be click on the “Generate Backup” buttons and away you go.
How Can I Get That Backup Now?
Now you should be told that once the server finishes generating the backup for you – you will receive an e-mail at the address you gave it. Now if you click “Go back” or just navigate yourself back to the first screen of the backup page you can see that the backup is still “in progress”. After a few minutes or once you get that e-mail back from the server, you can download you backup from here.
Now you should have a full backup of your web site ready to restore if the worst case scenario might happen.
Why is it that people from the dirty south get looked down upon in the web hosting world? You might not know it – but you too might even be getting your hosting from one of us good ol’ boys. Discrimination by location and tons more on this edition of the Web Hosting Show.
So you have a few friends or clients that need a web host, your pretty savy with the ins and outs of the web hosting world so why don’t you start up your own hosting company? Now many people might look at that and say that it is overkill – but becoming your own mini web hosting company is not so far fetched.
Web sites have been taking a grave turn from putting up photos of your grandmother’s cats to an explosion of social interaction, user create videos and even audio shows just like this one. With services like YouTube, Facebook, MySpace and others ruling the Web world – there have been a lot of copy cats come up in the ranks as well.
Southern Web Hosting Discrimination
Web hosting is not an industry that only belongs to the northern half of the continental United States. I got a lot of grief on this show from time to time about my accent. I’m from Texas and proud of it though – so if that causes me to “talk a little funny” in your opinion then so be it.
There are many great southern people and companies that have made the web hosting business just a little better. So before you claim we are all beer drinking rednecks – maybe you should have a closer look.
Who Are These Southern Hosting People?
One of the most powerful publishers of the web hosting word is from down south. Ping! Zine, the web hosting magazine is based down in Louisiana. One of the biggest hosting providers out there today, the Planet is based in Texas. Another powerful web hosting firm down here in Texas is a little shop called Rackspace. C I Host would be yet another example of a big Texas-based hosting firm.
Now those are just a few of the big names. There are many more smaller names I could list – and this list could go on and on and on. One place where this topic was covered well was back in the March 2005 issue of the Web Host Industry review. If you haven’t seen that issue yet, I would recommend you check it out.
The Web Hosting World is for Everybody!
Do you get the point yet? Now I am not here to say that us funny talking southern people have claim on the reigns of the hosting world either. Truth be told, web hosting is a global market with a whole heck of a lot of funny sounding people.