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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Canadian Father Helps To Catch Internet Predator
The Internet is a good thing. It helps us in our lives from the way we make our living to the things that entertain us. More and more 
every day the Internet becomes a permanent fixture in people’s lives but just like human nature, there is a bad side to how people use this innovation.
That’s why it’s a good thing there are people like Robert Kleisinger. The British Columbia native listened to his ‘gut feeling’ when his teenage stepdaughter began an online relationship with an older man. He spent hours researching and then installed the right software to monitor the situation. Finally, the hero from Abbotsford contacted police when he had the evidence to nab the suspect.
To catch the pervert, Kleisinger set up a fake Facebook account to lure the suspect. His work resulted in a conviction.
Staying with Canada for a moment, the regulatory body there plans on keeping a tighter reign on the ISP providers in the frozen North. When the CRTC allowed the providers that work in that country to use traffic management practices to slow down some features so there was ample bandwidth available to all consumers, they opened a can of worms only possible with this kind of bloated governmental interference. Peer to peer traffic was one of the techniques slated. The latest guidelines will essentially keep an eye on the practices that these companies can employ and how much they need to tell the public about which ones they are going to use. A free market here would end these silly little shell games. Maybe it will happen under the current pro business government.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) announced they plan on dramatically increasing the number of domain endings that will be available in the summer. According to reports, there will be hundreds of new domain names available soon including .Google or even .Coke. Currently 250 country domain suffixes and companies looking for industry or firm specific endings will need to show some manner of legal ownership. The process will start according to the BBC in January.
Finally there are new rumblings that Yahoo could be sold. After firing CEO Carol Bartz over the phone, more fuel has been added to the fire with an email sent to employees from the top brass and founders saying that all possibilities were being looked at.
Still, the same memo states Yahoo is looking for a replacement for Carol Bartz and that in itself isn’t the kind of thing as firm would do if they were looking to sell.
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