Best 3 WordPress Backup Plugins to backup your blog

Hello guys, in this era of exponential growth of internet technology hackers are becoming a headache for all internet users and also for bloggers. If you are running a blog and wants it be protected from hackers it is very essential to take backups at regular intervals of your blog, but taking backup of blog is not enough! You must backup your files (images, themes,, plugins, etc.) as well. If your blog gets hacked some day and you are satisfied by regaining your posts and comments alone and if you also consider spending hours in gathering and uploading images, plugins, and themes for your blog you can just backup your database. But for intelligent people who don’t want to waste their priceless time backing up your database through best wordpress backup plugin as well as files are essential.

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• Protect yourself from being hacked by hackers.
• How to block country IP to save your blog from Click Bombing?

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There are best two ways to take backup of wordpress blog:-

• Manual.
  
  
• Automatic.

Manual backups are one of the solutions of protecting your blog, but it is next to impossible for anyone to take timely backups daily. It also requires a lot of time therefore effective not efficient.

There is a way to back up your blog easily, quickly and automatically then look for some useful free plugins.

There are lots of best wordpress backup plugins available online allowing you to backup Wordpress blog easily. According to me I found best 3 wordpress backup plugins because I used and rated them as the best WordPress backup plugins!

XCloner

It backups your blog database as well as your files therefore quite efficient. It is up to your choice to take full or partial backup. You can customize this plugin to take backup of your blog at particular time intervals and backup file can be compressed to save disk space.  XCloner can be viewed as a complete free backup solution for word press and one of the best wordpress backup plugin.

BackWPUp

This plugin is just awesome because it not only take backup of blog database it also includes your files, include any file or folder, exclude any file or folder, export Word press XML, etc. Apart from its regular functionality it can even check, optimize and repair your database. It also helps in saving disk space by making compressed backups in zip, tar, tar.gz or tar.bz2 formats.

              Backups made from this plugin can be stored in a folder, FTP server, Amazon S3, Google Storage,Dropbox, Rackspace Cloud,google drive etc. and it comes free of cost that’s most impressive feature and make it reach in my best wordpress backup plugin list.

WP DB Backup

Its name defines itself it just backs up your Word Press database. It saves backup to your server, email the backup to you or to anyone you intended to share or you can also download the backup from browser as soon as the backup is complete. This plugin is very effective if you just want to backup your database therefore in my opinion it is still the best wordpress backup plugin but first two are more preferable than this plugin.

Conclusion

Finally, at last whatever plugin you use I discussed the best of them. These best wordpress backup plugin will let you blog safely and securely. Even when you are hacked they served you whenever you wanted them to be.   

Deepak Sharma is a technical blogger who loves to write about games, tips and tricks,best useful software , android programming.If you like the author than you can find more interesting stuff by stay connected with him on Facebook , Twitter, Google plus and LinkedIn. Edited an SEO by  Shubham Kedia

How to block country IP to save your blog from Click Bombing?

In today’s world, there are many bloggers who face some problems like invalid click activity or click bombing on their blogs.

This type of activity has been done by some mischievous persons and enemies who have a bad intention to destroy your blog income from Google AdSense account.

So, today’s article for those bloggers, who have an intense desire to block that country IP, IP range and a particular IP to save your blog from click bombing.

What is Click bombing?

Click bombing is a method to destroy your blog income from Google AdSense by a user on clicking your ads more than 100 or usual clicks of your blog.

Doing such mischievous act by click bomber, Google AdSense interprets that you have given an order to your friend to click on your ads, so that you can increase your income rapidly.

This is the main reason behind that many blogger AdSense accounts have been disapproved by Google.

How to get rid of this incident of Click bombing?

First, the most important thing is that you have to file a report to the Google AdSense by clicking on the given link (Google AdSense Invalid Activity Report).

After sending a report to Google AdSense, the next thing you have to do to block that country IP, IP range and a particular IP by this awesome software.

Incapsula

A free Content Delivery Network service for those users, who want to block a country IP, IP range and a particular IP to save your site from Click Bombing.

To know more about this service and installation part, you can click on the given links below.

• Incapsula v/s CloudFlare- the Best Free CDN providers in the world.
• How to setup a CDN ofIncapsula in your domain?

After adding a CNAME and A record in your DNS of domain, if any user wants to block country IP, IP range and a particular IP, he can follow these simple steps.

STEP 1: First open your account and then click on the link or photo as shown in image.

STEP 2: After clicking, a page appears on your screen as shown in figure below. Click on “Settings” button, which is present at the top of the menu bar to block country IP, IP range and a particular IP.

STEP 3: After pressing on “Settings” button, click on “Security” menu as shown in image below (present at sidebar).

STEP 4: Then, Scroll down, you can find some boxes to block country IP, IP range, URL and a particular IP as shown in image below.

STEP 5: After entering and selecting IPs on given boxes, save it to block country IPs, IP range and a particular IP.

Congrats!

Now in future, your blog is saved from those mischievous users, who have an intention to click on your Ads continuously.

Note:

If you are adding your native country in block country IP, then please whitelist your IP by adding your IP in “whitelist IP” box.

If you have any queries related to this post, you can comment below.

About the Author Hello Friends,I am Gaurav Sharma pursuing B.tech(Computer Science) degree from VIT University(Originator and Co-Founder of ComFuge-A World of Geeks). If you like my Post you can follow me.

How to get Technorati Claim for your blog?

What is Technorati?

So, what exactly is Technorati? Because we are at the beginning of a Technorati Claim post, this is definitely an issue we need to be clear on!

Technorati is a type of blog submission directory, which is used to find blogs of different areas or ideas like technology, Fashion, Movies, music, etc. in the blogosphere.

Why is it important to get Technorati Claim for your blog?

As I explain you in the last paragraph that Technorati is a blog submission directory, so it helps you to get more traffic for your blog, so that you get more revenue from your ads providers.

It also helps you to get more reputation in Google search, SEO blog rank and Google AdSense.

What are the steps involved to get Technorati Claim for your blog?

To get the Technorati Claim, you just have to follow these simple steps below.

STEP 1: First, open the portal of Technorati and make an account in it.

STEP 2: After creating the account, enter the Username and Password associated with your Technorati account.

STEP 3: After login, click on the username, which is present at the top of your account as shown in the figure below.

STEP 4: After that, a webpage is opened in front of your screen with your account information. Scroll down to the bottom of the webpage and enter the URL of your blog in “My Claimed Blogs” and after that click on “Claim” button as shown in the image below.

STEP 5: Fill out your blog details including Title, Feed URL, description and your blog categories in the given form. After the completion of the form, click on “Proceed to the next step” button.

STEP 6:  After clicking on “Proceed to the next step”, a webpage appears with a message as shown below.

STEP 7:  Then, Click on “Return to profile” button, which is present at the top of the message.

STEP 8: Open your email id associated with Technorati account and retrieve the token and post the Technorati verification Token on your blog.

STEP 9: Then, scroll down to the bottom of your profile and click on “Check Claim” button as shown in the image below.

STEP 10: After that, a webpage has been appeared on your screen as shown below.

Click on “Verify Claim Token” button to get started the Technorati Claim Verification of your blog.

STEP 11: After some time, your Blog will be verified by Technorati. Now, you can remove the token from your blog. 

Congrats, you get the Technorati Claim for your blog.

If you have any queries related to this post, you can ask me by commenting below.

About the Author Hello Friends,I am Gaurav Sharma pursuing B.tech(Computer Science) degree from VIT University(Originator and Co-Founder of ComFuge-A World of Geeks). If you like my Post you can follow me.

How to setup a CDN of Incapsula in your domain?

In the previous post, I explained you about the difference between Incapsula and CloudFlare (Incapsulav/s CloudFlare- the best free CDN providers in the world) and I also gave a conclusion that CloudFlare is better than Incapsula.

I also wrote an article on installing CloudFlare CDN (How to install a CDN setting of CloudFlare in your domain).

But, if you got any problem in installing CloudFlare in your DNS, then you can setup a CDN of Incapsula in your domain without doing any change in your DNS.

As you know, Incapsula is one of the leading CDN providers in the world without taking a penny from your pocket.

To setup a CDN of Incapsula in your domain, you just have to follow these simple steps as given below.

Step 1: To install Incapsula CDN, first you have to make an account in Incapsula.

Step 2: After creating an account, login with your username and password again and add your website in the given box as shown in figure.

Step 3: After clicking on “Add website” button, it scans all your records to check that all your domain records work properly. After the completion of scan, click on “CONTINUE” button to proceed.

Step 4: After this, it asks you to add A record and CNAME record in your DNS. Change it and click on “I have completed the DNS changes” button to complete the setup.

Note:

• Delete the respective A record and CNAME after clicking on “I have completed the DNS changes” button to setup a CDN of Incapsula in your domain properly.
• You cannot use CloudFlare and Incapsula both in a same domain because CloudFlare protects your DNS to access Incapsula service.

If you have any queries related to this post, you can ask here by commenting below.

About the Author Hello Friends,I am Gaurav Sharma pursuing B.tech(Computer Science) degree from VIT University(Originator and Co-Founder of ComFuge-A World of Geeks). If you like my Post you can follow me.

Incapsula v/s CloudFlare- the Best Free CDN providers in the world

Incapsula and CloudFlare are two leading Free CDN providers in the world, which provide your blog the best security and speed in free.

Every day, thousands of bloggers and developers join these CDN services to get the optimum results from their blogs and websites respectively.

But, the most important thing is that which CDN provider is better for your blogging purpose?

So, in this article, I am going to answer you about this two CDN providers features and at last, a conclusion in which I give my opinion –which is the best CDN provider for your blog.

CloudFlare

I had already written various posts on the CloudFlare CDN provider, you can refer it from the given links below.

CloudFlare - A Free CDNservice for bloggers.

How to setup a CDN setting ofCloudFlare on your domain?

Best CDN setting ofCloudFlare to get the optimum service for your blog.

Incapsula

Incapsula is one of the leading CDN service company in the world, which makes your blog safer, faster and more reliable.

CDN comparison based on features:

Location:

CloudFlare has 18 servers all over the world - 10 in US, 4 in Europe and one each in Hong Kong, Sydney, Singapore and Tokyo

 Incapsula has 10 servers all over the world – 4 in US, 4 in Europe and one each in Singapore and Tokyo.

Caching:

CloudFlare provides awesome Facilities like JavaScript, HTML, CSS minifier and Rockspace Loader, which help your site load faster.

Incapsula doesn’t provide you such facility like Rockspace Loader, but it minifies your website code as same as CloudFlare.

Bandwidth Limitations:

Incapsula provides your blog 50GB/month bandwidth only.

CloudFlare has no such criteria of Bandwidth limit.

Installation:

To apply CloudFlare on your website, you just have to change your DNS into rob.ns.cloudflare.com and bob.ns.cloudflare.com.

To apply Incapsula on your website, you just have to add a CNAME and A record in your domain CNAME and A record list.

Analytics:

In CloudFlare, it provides bot crawler, visitors and threats who visited your website after 24 hours.

In Incapsula, it provides Bot crawler and visitor stats regularly without any delay, but it doesn’t provide you the number of threats and attacks done on your site.

Conclusion

According to my experiences, I prefer CloudFlare because it has much better facility than Incapsula and speed wise, I again also prefer CloudFlare because when I am using CloudFlare, my blog speed is 2.98s whereas I get 3.95s, when I use Incapsula in my blog(GTmetrix Data).

If you have any queries related to these Free CDN providers, you can ask me by commenting below…

About the Author Hello Friends,I am Gaurav Sharma pursuing B.tech(Computer Science) degree from VIT University(Originator and Co-Founder of ComFuge-A World of Geeks). If you like my Post you can follow me.

Best CDN setting of CloudFlare to get the optimum service for your blog.

In the previous post (CloudFlare-AFree CDN service for bloggers) and (How to setup a CDN setting of CloudFlare onyour domain?), I explained you about the world best CDN service CloudFlare and its installation path.

In the following post, I am going to tell you about how you can get the Best CDN setting of CloudFlare, so that CloudFlare serves you the optimum service for your website.

To apply this Best CDN setting in your CloudFlare account, just follow these simple steps:-

STEP 1: First, log in CloudFlare and open your account, then go to CloudFlare setting as shown in the figure.

STEP 2: After this, a webpage appears on your screen in which there are three types of settings are given:

1.        Setting Overview
2.            Security Settings
3.            Performance settings

STEP 3: For Best CDN setting, select each type of setting and set it as given below…

(Note: This setting is for those users who are using CloudFlare as a free CDN service)

Setting Overview

Security profile                    : Custom

Performance profile             : Custom

Cache Purge                        : Use it, when you changes anything in your blog

Development mode             : Temporarily enter development mode on your blog

Automatic IPv6                  : Full

SPDY                                     : This facility is for paid users

Outbound Links                 : ON

Always Online                    : ON

IP Geolocation                   : ON

Google Analytics                : Install Google Analytics on your web pages

SSL                                   : This facility is for paid users

Security Setting

Security profile                        :   Custom

Advanced DDoS protection     : This facility is for paid users

Basic protection level               : Medium

Challenge passage TTL            : 15 minutes

Customize challenge page        : It is not an  important stuff

E-mail address obfuscation      : ON

Server side exclude (SSE)        : ON

Browser integrity check           : ON

Hotlink protection                    :  ON

Advanced security (Web Application Firewall): Paid Facility

Performance Setting

Performance profile                 : Custom

Caching level                           : Aggressive

Minimum expire TTL               : 2 hours

Auto Minify (Web optimization): Click on JS, CSS, HTML

Rocket Loader™ (Web optimization): Off

Website preloader                    : This facility is for paid users

That’s all.This is the Best CDN setting of CloudFlare for your blog. Try it to get optimum results.

If you have any queries related to this post, you can comment below and ask your queries to me…

About the Author Hello Friends,I am Gaurav Sharma pursuing B.tech(Computer Science) degree from VIT University(Originator and Co-Founder of ComFuge-A World of Geeks). If you like my Post you can follow me.

CloudFlare-A Free CDN service for bloggers

Do you want to speed up your blog by using Free CDN service?

Do you want to secure your blog from hackers by using Free CDN service?

If your answer is yes, then today, this post can help you to prevent your blog from loading slow and any unethical events done by a hacker.

I know that from ancient times of blogging, many bloggers are fed up by the optimisation of his blog due to slow speed.

In the starting of my blog, I also get this type of problem.

So that is why, I am going to discuss here about an awesome tool for your blog which can help you to overcome these problems in simple way.

CloudFlare-A Free CDN Service which speeds up and secures your blog in few minutes.

CloudFlare is one of the best free CDN services and DNS services around the globe which provides blogger a better environment to run his blog with fast speed and prevent from hacking without giving any money to the cloudflare provider.

In Today’s world, CDNs cover all the internet content market such as web objects, downloadable objects, applications, live streaming media, on-demand streaming media, and social networks.

How Free CDN service helps your blog to run faster?

Actually, Content Delivery Network (CDN) consists of many servers all over the globe, which takes a copy or cache of your blog and distributes it.

When a visitor tries to access your blog, it is first connected to the nearby server present in his area.

From that server, the copy or cache of your blog has been sent to your visitors, which helps to load up your blog very quickly.

It also supports your DNS to reduce the bandwidth of your blog which decreases the number of errors and 404 occurred in your blog.

What are the main features of this tool, which makes this tool much better than the other Free CDN service?

• Globally distributed CDN – CloudFlare Data servers are placed all over the world, which helps your DNS to load up your blog fast to any visitor present at any part of the world.
• Static Content Caching – Due to CloudFlare static content caching system, it helps your blog to reduce the bandwidth of your DNS server.
• Keep your blog online – Sometimes, when your blog DNS goes down, it keeps your blog online.
• Optimize your blog Content – It serves you to optimize and resize images which are present in your blog and minifies your JavaScript, CSS, HTML code as well. It also provides rocket loader service, which helps your blog JavaScript responds much faster than the last time.
• Block spammers and hackers – It also helps you to block the spammers and hackers to visit your blog and do any unethical stuff.
• Free Apps and tools – It also provides some essential tools which may help your blog to look smarter and more secure. Here I listed some tools, which are provided by Cloudflare to the users.

Google Analytics to check the total number of threats arrived at your blog.

Page Rules to stop the particular static page from Cloudflare service.

Pingdom tool to check the speed of your blog regularly and sends you an email about an error and speed of your blog.

This is all about Cloudflare (how is it better than other Free CDN service?)

In the forthcoming post, I am going to tell you – How to implement this Free CDN service in your blog.

If you have any queries related to this post, which is about Free CDN service, you can comment below and ask your queries to me. I try my level best to reply your queries as fast as I can do.

  

About the Author Hello Friends,I am Gaurav Sharma pursuing B.tech(Computer Science) degree from VIT University(Originator and Co-Founder of ComFuge-A World of Geeks). If you like my Post you can follow me.