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As he hangs up the phone, reality hits: he hasn't backed up his company's website for over eight months. He knew it had to have it done, but it just kept getting put off in the face of more urgent-seeming tasks.
Head in his hands, Tom reflects on the fact that that over those eight months, he'd added hundreds of products to his online store. He'd recorded more than 10,000 purchases and captured the details of 2,136 customers.
And it was all gone.
That's right — things can go wrong with your website and if you don't have a recent backup tucked safely away, incidents such as the one above can impact your business hard, maybe even irreparably.
The easiest way to avoid a scene like the one above is to backup your website on a regular basis, at least once a week if not every day. If you're not already doing so, we've created a list of 22 WordPress backup tools you can use to protect your blog and site below.
NOTE: If you didn't use WordPress to build your site, take a look at #1 and then skip down to the "WordPress and Beyond" section.
WordPress Backup Plugins 1. Your Hosting CompanyAmong other services, a good hosting company will offer a website backup package. It might cost extra however, knowing that someone is managing your site backups on a regular basis is likely worth it.
WordPress Backup Tools: Free WordPress PluginsThere are plenty of WordPress plugins available for backing up your site. The two below are free:
2. Dropbox Backup & RestoreIf you have a Dropbox account then you should check out the Dropbox Backup and Restore plugin as it enables you to backup your WordPress site to Dropbox. To restore or migrate your WordPress website, reinstall a clean version of WordPress, install this plugin, connect to Dropbox and press the "Restore" button next to one of the backups on the list:

The Backup Scheduler plugin will back up both your WordPress database and site files for free. To restore your site, follow the directions provided at the bottom of this page.
WordPress Backup Plugins: Free Plugins with Pro VersionsThis section lists those plugins that give a free taste but offer much more robust functionality if you pay to upgrade to a pro version.
If you want stability (i.e. the plugin will likely be around for a while and upgraded for each new version of WordPress) and support, pro versions are worth checking out.
4. DuplicatorThe free version of the very-highly rated Duplicator plugin has all the functionality you'll need to backup your WordPress site. The pro version offers much more of course but most small businesses will find the personal price to be very reasonable.
This one is a must-check out plugin.

The free version of the Backup Guard plugin offers unlimited backups and restores however, if you want features such as scheduling, you'll need to upgrade to the pro version.
Click here to compare the free version with the three paid versions…
6. BackUpWordPressUsing the free version of the BackUpWordPress plugin will feel like you've purchased a pro version of another backup plugin. The differences between the free and pro versions in this case focus solely on where you can backup to, something that a small business may not deem important enough to pay for.
7. BackWPup FreeMost small businesses will find that the free version of the BackWPup plugin will suit them just fine. The pro version does offer more however, it seems as if it's geared more towards developers and other technical folks.
8. WPBackItUpThe final plugin in this section, WPBackItUp is an easy-to-use backup solution. If you want the easy-to-use restore solution however, you'll need to go pro.
WordPress Backup Plugins: Paid WordPress ToolsPaid for WordPress plugins typically offer the most features right out of the box. In addition, if you want stability (i.e. the plugin will likely be around for a while and upgraded for each new version of WordPress) and support, paid for plugins offer the highest level of confidence.
9. BlogVaultBlogVault offers one of the most robust WordPress backup solutions available. With features such as automated incremental backups and even automated restores in the case of hacking, this is the solution to turn to for business continuity and peace of mind.

Click here to learn more…
10. UpdraftPlusAnother fully-featured backup plugin, Updraft Plus is a rock-solid solution with great features and functionality.
Click here to learn more…
11. BackupBuddyBackupBuddy is one of the best-known backup plugins for WordPress. They've been around for a while and their feature set, and ease-of-use, is aimed toward small businesses.
12. Backup by SupsysticA solid all-around backup solution, Backup by Supsystic offers everything a small business needs at a reasonable price.
WordPress Backup Tools: Security Plugins with BackupThis section lists those WordPress plugins that aim to secure your site and provide backups as part of that mission.
13. ManageWPIf you have more than one WordPress site, then you're going to love the ManageWP plugin. ManageWP enables you to manage all your sites, including backups, in one place. Throw in security, live monitoring and alerts and optimization and even folks with one site will want to give this solution a look.
Click here to learn more…
14. VaultPressThe VaultPress plugin provides both backups and security for your WordPress site with an easy-to-navigate up-to-date dashboard:

Click here to learn more…
WordPress and BeyondThe solutions in this section can all be used to backup a WordPress site however, they can also be used to back up websites that were not created using WordPress.
If you're reviewing these solutions for a non-WordPress site, be sure to confirm that a solution is compatible with the type of database your website uses, as well as the type of operating system on which your website rests, before you add it to your shortlist.
Here are the solutions:
Failing to backup your website can have severe repercussions for your business. If you've built your website using WordPress, one of 21 WordPress backup tools to protect your blog and site above should help assure that you're not missing an up-to-date backup when you need one.
If your site was not built using WordPress, check out #1 and well as the solutions in the "WordPress and Beyond" section above to discover a tool that can provide the peace of mind that knowing your website is backed up regularly can bring.
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I have an article in the recently released "DZone Guide to Building and Deploying Applications on the Cloud" entitled "Fullstack Engineering in the Age of Hybrid Cloud". In this article I discuss the need and skills of a Fullstack Engineer with relation to troubleshooting and repairing complex, distributed hybrid cloud applications. My recent experiences with troubleshooting issues with my Docker WordPress container only reinforce the details I wrote about in this piece. Without my comprehensive understanding of both the infrastructure and application layer I don't believe I could have achieved resolution (if I have, but more on that later).
My Docker WordPress container has always had issues with the "Error Connecting to Database" issue, but initially it would happen once a month and I would just re-start the container. I had read that the issue was fixed by moving to WordPress 4.5, so I upgraded, which came with its own challenges given these containers are supposed to be immutable.
Unfortunately, I designed my container when Docker architecture was in its infancy and so separating out and linking a MySQL container and the WordPress container as well as storing data on a separate volume are all features which emerged, or became more easily used, in later versions. Eventually, I will need redesign around 1.11 features, but for now, I'm just trying to keep up what I currently have. I did try just moving the database files onto permanent storage mapped in to the container as a volume, but all I did was fight with file permissions for a day and MySQL never ended up starting.
Recently, it became more and more difficult to keep the container up, so I upgraded to the latest Ubuntu 14.04 kernel and when that didn't seem to help the issue I upgraded Docker from 1.4 to 1.11. None of these seemed to correct the issue. However, Docker 1.11 leverages the new architecture and uses cgroups, which resulted in cgroup out of memory thread killer posting messages to my console.

Now, I could see that mysqld was being terminated at some point due to insufficient memory. To solve the memory issue, I tried optimizing the WordPress LAMP stack for low memory and even migrated from a 1G virtual machine to a 2G instance. It seems no matter how much memory I threw at this problem the longest the WordPress site would be active before the database connection issue appeared was an hour.
Totally baffled at this point, I started chasing down a lead regarding WordPress issues occurring on my cloud service provider. It seemed the issue I was seeing was happening to many others on Digital Ocean, perhaps this was a VPS (DO's Droplet architecture is VPS-based) issue and not a Docker issue. DO responded on its forum to the various postings stating that running out of memory is common result of the known XML-RPC Denial of Service attack. XML-RPC is the API interface for WordPress.
Wait! What am I doing? No one's going to bother attacking my little old blog, it can't be that. Back to optimizing memory use. Oh crud, this is still not getting me anywhere after two weeks.
Unfortunately, again my immutable container architecture limited my ability to see logs and SSH connections were often terminated due to low memory as well. Once I terminated the container without committing the container the logs were lost. So, I had to modify the current container to use an external volume for all the log files and now wrote them out to permanent storage.
Whoa! What do I find in the apache2 access.log after the next time the issue occurs? Well, when I did a tail of the last 200 entries I found my site was being attacked by a Googlebot, and there were a lot more entries in addition to those. In the end, I was a victim of a denial of service attack.
I believe its important to look at what data I had available and the characteristics identified by the logs and error messages. Nothing screamed DoS attack consuming mass number of threads on the Apache server and driving memory usage to 0 so that the memory manager was sacrificing threads to keep the OS alive (does that make anyone else think of Kirk screaming to Scotty, "all power to life support"?). When the attack stopped, mysqld_safe restored the thread, but it seems the socket or some other interprocess mechanism didn't allow WordPress to communicate with the MySQL.
Piecing this together after the fact required a mix of skills. It might have been easier if I was doing live monitoring and tracking inbound requests while also constantly checking that WordPress could communicate MySQL, but realistically, this is a dramatic step when all else has failed.
Through this I learned a lot about container architecture, but this issue is probably still lingering. I'm just denying all requests to access XML-RPC from outside IP addresses at this time and the WordPress has been up for over 24 hours. More importantly, it really reinforces what I wrote about in the article and I don't believe I could have reached this point if I didn't have a good understanding of the infrastructure, operating system, networking, Docker and LAMP stack.
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JP Morgenthal is an internationally renowned thought leader in the areas of IT transformation, modernization, and cloud computing. JP has served in executive roles within major software companies and technology startups. Areas of expertise include strategy, architecture, application development, infrastructure and operations, cloud computing, DevOps, and integration. He routinely advises C-level executives on the best ways to use technology to derive business value. JP is a published author with four trade publications with his most recent being "Cloud Computing: Assessing the Risks". JP holds both a Masters and Bachelors of Science in Computer Science from Hofstra University.
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The WordPress theme company Templatic has written to customers to say their website has been hacked. Furthermore, it appears that who ever did the hacking has gained access to files and the database, and is now demanding money from the website's owner.
"The hacker is now threatening us via email and demanding ransom money be paid. This hacker is also threatening to misuse the data they've illegally gained access to and email our data to customers," founder R. Bhavesh said in an email to customers.
"While this is a very serious and dangerous threat, we are not going to give in to threats and we will not be negotiating with any hacker and that's no matter how much they try. A security expert has been assigned to this case and investigations are now being conducted. We are also taking legal action against all the illegal activities the hacker has been involved in."
According to Templatic, the company does not store credit card information on its site as all transactions are through PayPal or 2Checkout, but they do, of course, store passwords.
The company, based in Surat, India, said it would not send another email to customers so that they do not get spoofed should emails start coming though. The company has also taken down its website and is working with a company to clean and protect its website.
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