Over the past 24 hours, WordPress users who utilize the Akismet plugin experienced a mass influx of spam (this blog included). We’ve received just a ton of help tickets in our Support Center about the amount of spam they’ve received. This was an Akismet issue and they’ve posted about it on their blog, including a statement that the problem has been resolved: Akismet blog: Downtime Comment/trackback spam is very frustrating – however, when Akismet experiences …
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A Case for Regular Database Backups
If you’re running a WordPress blog – – when was the last time you backed up your WordPress database? Ever? As a hosting provider, we do full daily, weekly and monthly back ups of our clients account. We do this as a value-added service for our clients, and your host may very well do the same thing. Keep something in mind, however… no matter how awesome your host is – all web hosting providers experience …
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