Friday, 28 November 2008

Don't Lose your Business to Loss

So, you've built and are growing your online business with a great deal of hard work. You have the first hand knowledge of how hard it is to build your online business and just how many different things you have to keep up with. Only you know the endless hours of work at the beginning, the amount of money invested and the sacrifices you had to make to make your business a reality.Is it possible that all of a sudden you can lose it all?

Unfortunantly, Yes would be the answer.A seemingly small action on your part can wipe out everything you've worked so hard to build. Since you are a Internet Marketer, I am sure you have heard the horror stories about what happens to other marketers having server crashes, malicious takeovers, hackers, corrupted data, and even uploading bad versions of a site.Let alone is your home/work system crash with a disk failure, virus, or even be stolen.

You might be doing everything right and don't have to worry about anything. But you have to wear every hat in your business and it is impossible to know everything all by yourself. Especially when its comes to technical detail when your expertise is your business and not computer minutia.

How do you protect your business and your livelyhood? Do you do manual ftp copies, rely on your host, or try to keep multiple copies of your work. But most online businesses have a few sites, on a few hosts (Linux or Windows) and the original work copies on your computer (which is MAC or Windows).How do you keep the product of your hard work safe?

It's simple really, use Internet Attached Storage.The best services will run on dedicated servers, your home/work systems, and even some shared hosting accounts as well... With a single account which lets you use, modigy, and restore data to and from anywhere. You can take advantage of the growing acceptance and demand of regular home users for online backup which has driven down pricing where it's affordable and fully featured. More and more online businesses are using Internet Attached Storage for backup of their dedicated servers, shared hosts, and work/home pc's. And for good reason.

What you need to look for is a provider of Internet Attached Storage with advanced features.The features most needed are multi-platform (working with MAC, Windows, and Linux). That they are bandwidth efficient.Which means that they only backup changes to your files (after the initial upload).And that it versions your files (keeping several older copies of each file). The last consideration is that they provide value for the dollar.Don't be led astray with "unlimited" backup at a fixed price.You'll discover that many providers Terms of Service allows them to cut you off if you have substantially more data than their other users.

So you can lose it all if your data (blogs, stores, websites) are destroyed by viruses, hackers, or hardware failures. But now with Internet Attached Storage you can backup all your sites and systems with a single account easily, quickly, and affordably.

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