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Today I want to introduce you to another cool new plugin I came across: Online Backup for WordPress. There’s quite a few plugins out there doing backups already, WP-DBManager by Lester Chan, for instance, but there’s a lot more. But… They all backup to your own server or to email. What you really want is safe and secure off-site backups. Automatically.

This plugin solves that, and, even better, it does so for free. Backup Technology built this because they had to scratch their own itch: Patrick Altoft and his team at Branded3 built their new site, they wanted it to automatically back up, and a plugin idea was born. Once they’d built it, they decided it would be pretty easy for them to offer this to other WordPress users, for free. You get 50 MB of data, which is about 10 backups of my blog, and those backups rotate around.

It seems odd that the day after I decide to point this website in a new direction (to focus on WordPress and related stuff), WordPress 3 is released. Because of that, I thought it was only right to do a piece on what all of the fuss is about! The Key Features (from WordPress.org) WordPress [...]

Firstly, this isn’t going to be a list of steps you must follow to create a financially successful blog as there is no definite way to do this. There are steps you can take that have a good chance of working, but nothing is guaranteed, and often, doing things in your own way is the [...]