Running your own website has lots of benefits and lots of users enjoy the mobility and the freedom it gives. Automattic, the venture behind WordPress and WordPress.com, knows this better than anybody else, but it also recognizes that besides the freedom there is a great responsibility. The website is operated only by you, and if something goes wrong, it would be only your fault and your chance to fix it. However, there’s hope yet, which doesn’t require much effort from your side. This hope is called VaultPress – the automatic backup system, developed by the creators of WordPress. The system is now starting to open the doors wider and invite more users into the restricted beta version. So the lucky blog owners have already been invited to check out the service for free.
Matt Mullenweg, the creator of Automattic and WordPress announced last weekend that they began to trickle out the first Golden Ticket invitations to the new system. For all users it means that if they’re on its list, they now face a semi-random chance of becoming one of the first lucky people getting an opportunity to sleep soundly at night relying on VaultPress.
Matt Mullenweg also explains that some control is still needed over the system, because the robustness, security aspects and real-time nature of the backup system mean that it has plenty of moving bits. Such control of the service growth is effected through the invite system. The company has started out by sending thirty invites a day and plans to gradually increase the number within the next few months.
What is VaultPress exactly, anyway? It’s a plugin providing self-hosted WordPress-based websites with automatic backups. The core strength of the plugin is user-friendliness and ease of integration to the software platform. The backups made are then hosted on WordPress.com, holding over 200 million blog articles at the moment, so there’s no need to worry on that part. It’s true that no service can be safe from outages, but the record of WordPress.com is quite solid.
VaultPress plans to provide even increased security one day, by offering WordPress automatic updates and even preventing some types of attacks. The target price for VaultPress set up by Automattic is about $15 a month, but it may change when the system goes out of beta, which may happen in some months.
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Dunno if blogspot offers same plugings too? Well hope so, if not better have my blogs switch at wordpress and be preparing for some hacking attacks. But do you found their fees would be a bit high?