When I ask this question, most people say that the person who developed their Website has a copy of site, but that’s not always the case. The majority of websites these days are Content Management Sites (you can edit and manage the websites pages yourself) and that means that your web developer may have a copy of the raw site, but will not have a copy of all that content that you have updated over the last year.
We recently came across a business who had inadvertently deleted their entire site, including the listings for several hundred products and had to re-enter all the information from scratch. Apart from the time and effort to re-enter all the data, there was a significant loss of revenue while the site was offline.
At Glasgorman Computer services in Gorey, Co. Wexford, we have a range of simple and cost effective backup solutions to protect your website and all your business data.
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Hi John,
This is very true, often businesses will under estimate that value of backup’s . Not only the data in an office but the data that is accumulated in Web 2.0 applications. Websites that users enter information themselves and that grow once the go live.
Many companies ignore the support contracts for back up not understanding the true ramifications when problems to arise. Often they will assume that this is all part of the price.
With over 450 plus website design clients that we have build up over the years, this is now becoming more and more apparent to many of our own clients, who for what every reason in the past have not understood the concept of “what is web hosting” and what does it actually do for me.
Small print should always be read not matter what the topic is.
Regards
Dave Jordan
Cada Media Ltd
Good point Dave.
This also relates to a recent post I did outlining the beefits of Cloud Computing. While there are huge advantages to hosted business solutions, it is critical that Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity are taken into account. It’s relatively easy to put backups in place, but for some reason many businesses only put systems in place AFTER they have lost data that is essential to their busiess.
It has also been pointed out to me that very many people rely on their email to send, receive and store critical information, quotes, passwords, invoices, receipts, etc. and that those emails are not backed up. The lack of backups applies equally whether the emails are stored on your local hard disk or are stored on the mail server by your ISP.