SnatchCode Helps You Backup Your Website and Databases with One Click
SnatchCode is a one-click solution for backing up your website and monitoring it for changes. Not only that, but it will scan your website daily for viruses, malware, and unwanted/unauthorized changes.
With each new authorized changed, SnatchCode creates a new snapshot of your website. Depending on which plan you choose this will be done on a daily or hourly basis. You’ll be able to download these snapshots if needed, in order to restore your website to a previous version. For all unauthorized changes, you’ll be notified immediately via email.
SnatchCode also uses a 256-bit encryption for all communications and “all data processing is performed on servers isolated from direct access to the Internet”. With each new scan, SnatchCode is said to get smarter and better at protecting your website.
Getting Started
First you’ll need to register with an email address, password, name and phone number. Your email address will also be your username.
Adding a Website
Next you’ll be able to add your website. As long as you have FTP access, your website platform is supported; so yes, it will also work with self-hosted blogs.
You’ll need to enter your username, password, hostname (ftp.yoursite.com or IP address), and port (usually 21 for FTP). Since this is sensitive data that you’re entering, the page where you enter this information is encrypted for your security.
Backing Up Your Website
Once your website has been added, all you have to do is click on the “Backup Now” button and you’re all done. SnatchCode will begin with the monitoring and automatic backups. Backups typically take around 48-72 hours, but this also depends on the size your website; larger websites could take days to complete. You’ll be notified via email when the backup is done and/or if any issues are found.
Backing Up Your MySQL Database
SnatchCode also has a database backup feature, which is currently in beta.
It works the same way as backing up your website except you need to enter your MYSQL username, password, database URL or IP, and database/schema name.
Other Features
If you ever wish to undo changes to your website, you’ll first need to upgrade to a Plus, Pro, or Enterprise account. The option will then be enabled on your dashboard. This is a nice feature because if you happen to change something on your website and totally mess it up, you can simply go back to a previous version before you made that change.
As mentioned above, you can also download your backups to your computer for further safe keeping.
Pricing
- Free: Comes with a storage limit of 250MB for 1 site; backup is done automatically on a daily basis.
- Plus: Comes with a 750MB storage limit for an unlimited number of sites; backup is done automatically on an hourly basis.
- Pro: Comes with 30GB of storage for an unlimited number of sites; backup is done automatically on an hourly basis.
- Enterprise: Comes with an unlimited amount of storage for an unlimited number of sites; backup is done automatically on an hourly basis.
Benefits
If you’re a WordPress user, using a backup plugin doesn’t always make sense. There are some plugins that will save your backups to Dropbox or another secure server, but most will only backup to your own server. So if your server happens to crash, you’re still in trouble because your backup was on that same server and it will be lost as well.
With SnatchCode, your backup is saved on their server so there’s no worries about losing your backups.
Will you use SnatchCode?
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Marc Ostrofsky Tells You How to Get Rich Click
I had the opportunity to interview Marc Ostrofsky, author of Get Rich Click!: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet (amazon affiliate link). Marc sees things differently than some of you might, but he’s also ridiculously successful, so his ideas bear consideration. I read his book cover to cover, then got the Kindle version, then read THAT and kept dozens and dozens of notes and started doing some of what he recommended.
This video has some interesting perspectives. If something raises your dander, then think about checking out the book. You’ll decide quickly whether it works for you or not. Give it a quick watch and see what you think.
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Newsletter Readers Do Click Ads
I recently attended an event where a presenter talked about the reasons that they didn’t use email marketing as part of their online business. One of the main reasons that he presented was that he didn’t think that people coming from a newsletter would click the ads on his site.
His reasoning was that people coming to his site week after week from a newsletter would become blind to the AdSense ads he was using (his main source of income). So rather than working on building loyal readers he put all of his efforts into SEO to generate one of readers.
There were lots of nods in the room from attendees – on one level what he was saying did make some sense – but for me it didn’t quite ring true.
You see my biggest days of earnings from AdSense are always the day I send out my newsletter. It drives a lot of traffic but also does seem to convert in terms of income (all kind, including eBook sales, affiliate promotions and AdSense).
Today I decided to dig a little deeper into my Google Analytics stats (which now integrates with AdSense) to see if what he said was actually true. Here’s what I found when it comes to AdSense earnings on my photography site from different sources of traffic over the last 3 months.
I’m not able to share with you actual eCPM (earnings per 1000 impressions) or CTR (click through rate) as I think it’d break the terms of service with AdSense – but I think the chart speaks pretty clearly for itself.
‘Aweber’ is the traffic coming from my newsletter and I’ve included a number of other sources of traffic to compare how it performs. You can see on both eCPM and CTR that Aweber out performs not only Search Engine traffic but traffic coming from different types of social media and referral traffic from other sites.
Newsletter traffic is certainly converting on both CTR and eCPM. This is confirmed when I look at other newsletter traffic (for example traffic coming from AOL and Yahoo’s mail servers) which is similarly higher than other types of traffic both in terms of eCPM and CTR.
What I also found interesting in these results was traffic coming from sites like Facebook and Flickr which both again out performed Google traffic on both CTR and eCPM. I had always assumed that social media traffic didn’t convert as well as other types of traffic but at least on these results it seems that not all social media traffic is alike. On that topic – Twitter didn’t convert anywhere near as well as Facebook.
Of course these sorts of results will vary from niche to niche. Perhaps because my photography site is not specifically a ‘product’ site but is a ‘how to’ site the traffic from Google is a little more general and less in a buying mood which could decrease the conversions – but for me at least it is an indication that I’m on the right track investing time into growing my newsletter list!
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Newsletter Readers Do Click Ads