Blog-site backup and mirroring strategies
Great tips from Nart Villeneuve and Michelle Levesque, via Ethan Zuckerman.
This is definitely on my to-do list. I will have to find out more about the options of using RSS for site mirroring and data recovery.
(Recently, I began to think that the most important asset of a blog-powered site is its RSS/XML feed.)
By the way, Dave Winer has also brought up the topic of data backup and allowing users to move seamlessly between blogging tools, so that a site is not likely to go offline when there’s an outage.
"They suggest that bloggers who know their sites are going to be blocked plan ahead, getting accounts with multiple ISPs and registering multiple domain names. They recommend switching domain names and IP addresses periodically to avoid blocking by government censors, and setting up a technical mirroring solution, so that when one domain is closed down, you can quickly move to another one. They also suggest licensing your content under creative commons, so people feel free to mirror it and to make sure third-party aggregators, like Bloglines, know about your site so they cache copies via RSS."
This is definitely on my to-do list. I will have to find out more about the options of using RSS for site mirroring and data recovery.
(Recently, I began to think that the most important asset of a blog-powered site is its RSS/XML feed.)
By the way, Dave Winer has also brought up the topic of data backup and allowing users to move seamlessly between blogging tools, so that a site is not likely to go offline when there’s an outage.
