This looks amazing. Have you signed up yet for VaultPress?
It looks to be a service for self-hosted WordPress installs to provide the best robust backup solution imaginable! Taken from the comments off Techcrunch by Matt, the founder:
- It can handle any amount of stuff. For example my site (ma.tt) has about 30,000 photos on it, totaling about 33 gigabytes.
- It’s an all-in-one package. You don’t need one thing to back up your database, one thing for your files, one thing for your themes, et cetera.
- It’s real-time. You make a post and it’s in the cloud seconds later.
- It’s enterprise-grade and not reliant on one provider, including us. Your site is stored on no fewer than 2 cloud services in addition to our own copies.
- It going to do more than just backup. The VaultPress engine will be able to push hotfixes to zero-day security vulnerabilities, for example.
And more…!
Wow. This could be the solution everyone has wanted or been waiting for.
John Saddington
I am the CEO of 8BIT and a Full Time Entrepreneur/a>. I like what I do.
Wow that’s awesome. Goal: Blog enough to need a $20/mo backup service.
Good work Automattic.
Aliens happen?
lol
Well, they could not put “Rapture” cos – I mean; you would blog after that, I dunno – just wondering 😉
You should also point out the sign–up form. Very 10s. Very much more than I will ever need.
I signed up. Will be cool to see how this takes shape.
My concern with all these “new” cloud companies is two fold …
1. Security or lack of … but in terms of what most ‘in the cloud’ companies are offering (i.e. backup) then,
2. Longevity.
As good geeks we all back up our data (don’t we?) and I do to several different types of media and medums. One of these being in the lcoud. I currently use Mozy but what would happen if they folded next week, next year, in ten years?
Just a thought.