Biological Cron Job
For the first few months I had this site, I was very lackidaisical about performing backups. When Sean had problems with his site after his host’s server died, and he had no recent backup, I determined to do better.
My hosting service doesn’t offer shell acess (I’m thinking of switching), but does provide a handy one-click-to-make-a-tar.gz button for creating full site backups. This means I can’t schedule backups automatically, and of course I’m too lazy to setup reminders (especially since I rarely fire up iCal). I make backups when I think of it. Tonight, for some reason, I thought of it. As I retrieved my latest backup, I noted the dates of my last several backups:
jclarkor.011204.tar.gz
jclarkor.021604.tar.gz
jclarkor.032004.tar.gz
jclarkor.042004.tar.gz
I seem to be developing a pretty regular habit of pulling a backup once a month, around mid-month. Kind of like a biological cron job.
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Freeshell
A friend of mine was looking for a server with shell access recently and I pointed him towards FreeShell [http://freeshell.org/]. Free signup gets you 20Mb web / 20Mb mail , shell access and limited CGI but a once-off $36 fee gets you “arpa” access: 100Mb home/web/mail plus perl, ruby, python, etc.
The friend in question ended up getting server space through his university but the FreeShell deal seemed pretty good to me. If didn’t already have my domain (a friend with his own box in a server farm) I’d consider it.
Happy server hunting!