Do you keep user data online and offline for your forum?

[BrolySSJ]

When it comes to the number of users that there are on your forum, it is important that you are able to give them some sort of insurance that there data is safe when they sign up with you, however you also have to have the data backed up in case you have to reload it on the website if there is a crash. There is no one that will willingly sign up again. Do you keep offline records of your website as well of the members that you have in your forum as well?

 

[Busybee]

I have two data bases hosted in separate hosting. If anything happens to the main database, my backup data base is safe. I can retrieve data and restore my main database again. This has proved time and time again to me. It's always better to be safe than sorry. I find having online backup is much safer than backup in local disk.

 

[BrolySSJ]

I have two data bases hosted in separate hosting. If anything happens to the main database, my backup data base is safe. I can retrieve data and restore my main database again. This has proved time and time again to me. It's always better to be safe than sorry. I find having online backup is much safer than backup in local disk.

Why would you say that having an online back up is safer if i may ask? I would suspect that online back ups also have a chance of hacking just like the main site whereas the other does not.

 

[Kane]

I do not keep my website data offline, I back my websites online, on my cpanel as well as cloud storage, I have never considered backing up offline. However, I have backed up some of my blogs locally on my computer.