VaultPress

A big setback with the site at the start of the 2011 year !!  Lots of research and advice flying around, but the hero of the day is an IT technician (more on him later) over at VaultPress.   What is VaultPress? … First I will digress….  my web host (Go Daddy) provider does not have active backup process, so to try and get an active backup process in my workflow, I started using a word press plug-in that would do that.  Well that was not a robust process either because it put the data on the Go Daddy server in one big blob of info… more digression… I am one of Go-Daddy’s worst fans .

During September in my email box came a VaultPress marketing letter. It asked me to bid on the question, ‘how much would you pay to have your site backed up, every moment of the day, every time your site was updated’, Being the cheapskate I am, I emailed a lowball response and did not think anything of it.  I ended up with reply back in a week at a price point that quelled my nervousness of having someone else assuming the risk for backup and archive.  How much do you pay for a service that holds every shred of digital pixels you have created in an active backup/restore mode (24×7), and that is current and easily modularity accessible, I’m in it for $15/mtnh  !!

But my story wanders here a bit, I bought this service, hoping never to use it.  My site went bad and went down and went cold on Jan. 3rd.  I have a lot of web/internt tools and knowledge, based on the last year on this site, but there was nothing I could figure out and all the googling was in vain.  I sent a small email to Vault Press asking for some advice, but thinking I would never hear from anyone. In a few hours a voice of hope and advice…I explained my issue…then went off to Godaddy world to get some 2:00am advice…reckless of me…after going into deeper despair, I decided  that it was time to make some lemonade.

So making lemonade out of lemons, I surfed and saw what the web has to offer with new theme blog technology.  Wow things have changed in just six months !  So before being notified that this site could be salvages, I plunged in with few thoughts 1) Redundancy plan, 2) Rethemed the site, 3) Get an new PhotoGallery  ….

Long story short, Fritzimages is back, with a new fresh magazine theme on the home page, which is fully dynamic and will arrange itself, ajax technology, word press 3 features, sticky pages, and is written in CSS3 the future of modern browsers……very cool stuff….

Plus….there is a NEW FRITZIMAGES GALLERY site setup for just my images….I was using photo shelter, but the process was clumsy to get content up to their site and I did not have any control over the site or theme. However that is the lemons…check out the New Gallery theme at www.fritz-images.com , or use the link in the nav-bar..

Now back to my story on VaultPress and a hero technician..

When my web site went down for seven days, for reasons unknown, the break-thru which allowed me to get back on line, was a simple email from a wonderful technician, who spent the time to research and repair the root cause of my site going cold.  I don’t know how or why John A, over at VaultPress keep me on his mind, as I’m sure my issue was not in the scope of his technical or service duties, but he is a credit to his service profession and to his fellow employees at VaultPress.

I am now a bigger fan of VaultPress that I ever was before, and would not hesitate to recommend to anyone, (with a site which they need to backup, archive, restore) to go directly to VaultPress and use their simple premium plugin to get your own peace of mind…….