There’s nothing more frustrating than losing your hard work due to problems out of your control. All it
takes is a harddrive crash or one nut crying spam, even though they double-opted in to your list, and you
could lose everything.

Back up your subscribers

If you have a mailing list, and you should, be sure to download your list of subscribers occasionally, I suggest at least weekly. If there’s a problem with your auto-responder company, or wherever you have your list hosted, you could lose all your subscribers if there is a problem. I’ve had this happen twice. I know I’m a slow learner.

The first time, I had my mailing list script hosted on my websitet. Someone hacked in and sent a bunch of email using my script and tied up the resources on my hosts server. My host shut down my script and locked me out of it. I couldn’t even go in and get my list of subscribers. That cost me over 5000 subscribers I had built up one by one.

The second time, one of the autoresponders I use shut my account down because I wasn’t active enough. The
fact that I had new subscribes signing up every day didn’t count apparently. Another 1500 subscribers lost.

Be sure to back up your websites

One of my hosts servers crashed this summer. I had seven sites hosted on that server. I hadn’t saved full
site backups on my harddrive, so when they replaced their server, I had to rebuild my site file by file and
re-install all the scripts I had on each one.

Take my advice. Make regular backups of your data.

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