Blogging can be a rewarding experience. Blogging can also be a nightmare. Spam is a problem that all internet users experience, whether it is in emails or in comments left on blogs and web sites, but spam is easy to counter.

What is not so easy to counter are malicious attacks on your blogs or web sites. Even harder to accept are the problems we create for ourselves. If I can offer one little piece of advice - backup, and backup often.

By backing up your database you can at least reproduce the data that has been stored up to that point. I spent a good part of today helping a friend who has been blogging for several years. They have never once backed up their files. They have lost all their data. All their posts together with the comments - all gone. They now have to start again from scratch.

I take on board two lessons from today’s nightmare. Number one is to backup all my files on a regular basis. The second lesson is to improve my blogs security. My friend lost their data after a hacker got into their site and started deleting and modifying files.

Unless you know what you are doing, I strongly suggest employing a expert in internet security to give your site the once over. Simple things like changing the read/write attributes of files so that you can make a modification occur all the time. This becomes a problem when we don’t take that extra step to change the attributes back to read only. The support and services offered by an expert could be invaluable particularly if you have been blogging for income.

If you have been blogging for some time then your blog will have a lot of value - perhaps not financial value but certainly intellectual value. Imagine switching your computer on and finding your site wiped out. How much is it worth to prevent that happening. Blogging may seem to be an inexpensive activity. Blogging is inexpensive - until you have to replace everything - or worse still - start all over.

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