I am facing an error 521 for my website www.cookingandme.com and so far haven’t found a solution (I am not at all technically savvy, getting help from professionals).
It seems like the mistake I made is to create a snapshot without powering down my droplet. Could this really result in me losing all the data on my website? Can’t access my Wordpress admin console or my website. I don’t have any other backups either. So far tried restoring and rebuilding the droplet to no effect.
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At some point you should think of a good back-up plan for your website files and database.
DigitalOcean has block-storage for a very good rate, and you could create a 25gb block of storage, add it to your droplet, and run a small backup script that backs everything up every night at midnight.
That is just one option…tons of others. I prefer the most simple and secure.
Once it is set up your backups should just run automatically and you will never have to think of it again until you need to restore your website.
I was actually looking into exactly this. Was considering signing up with Vaultpress for backups since a few fellow bloggers recommended that. I wouldn’t know how to run the backup script on DO if I were to go the block-storage route although that would be a cheaper option I believe.
Yes, a 20gb block of storage will cost you $2.00 a month, but you would need to have someone set up the backup script, and then if you ever needed to restore you would (maybe) have to find someone to restore your site from the backups…
Vaultpress looks like it is 9.00 per month…I have never used it so I do not know how easy it would be to restore from their backups…which is when it will really count. If your website is down, you will not be able to login and press a button.
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