Websites are funny

 What is a website other than a bunch of code. text, images, and possibly videos. It may even contain links to other websites or documents. But here's the thing. Each website has to be created and this takes time, energy, talent, and oh yes, money.

I have a wwebsite which you can find here. Its a very simple one page website. Other websites are quite complex. For example, the google.com website which looks so simple until you think of all that it does and all that must be behind it.

Why do I mention this? Because you may have decided you want to have a website for your business , organization, or club. You really need to consider what that might cost. For example, I was trying to do something that I had never done before. I spent several days beating my head against a wall and suddenly I hade an inspiration and was able to create that bit of code in minutes. So here's the question. If this was for a client (it wasn't) what would I charge? Could I charge for all the time it took to figure out how to do it? That seems wrong as I think it cheats the client. On the other hand, do I just charge for the final moments when I figured out how to do it? That also seems wrong. It cheats me.

There are other considerations. Perhaps the website needs lots of specialized or technical text. Perhaps pages of it. Who creates that? How much time is alloted for editing?

This is just to give you something to think about if you want a website.

Backing up

When we speak of backing up we mean making a copy from one device to another. It's no use making a folderol your C drive and copying there because if your hard drive fails you will likely lose the original and the backup. Is ckearkt you want to backup to a different device.

That device might be local. For example backing up to a plugged-in external drive. Or it might br remote (in the cloud). The cloud simply means a device  somewhere other than your location. And by device with probably mean a bank of hard drives or many banks of hard drives.

LOCAL:

A bit of history. The Norton company once had a product called Ghost. It would make a clone of your hard drive for the purposes of backup. Currently there is a friendly product called Casper which does the same thing. Do you see the connection?

Here is a list of some of the many backup products:

• Casper

• Acronis True Image

• Easus (several products)

• Backup Pro

There are many others.

CLOUD-BASED:

• Backblaze

• Carbonite

• iDrive

There are others.

The point of all of this is you should be backing up.

Don't Backup

•  You don't care if you're hacked.
• You don't care if your personal information is stolen
• You just love getting viruses
• You just don't care