Tonight I had to do some maintenance on my web host and blogging software. My brain was kind of mush anyway after work today so I was ready to do something rather menial.

I haven't done a full backup of my web stuff since August so it is way past time. Fortunately the cPanel software that my web hosting service uses is awesome. It is one click to start the full backup and one click to download the .tar.gz compressed file once you get an email notification that the backup completed. The cPanel backup component also does daily backups automatically which is really nice.

In August the .tar.gz was 900 MB. Today the download was 1.3 GB. Most of that new data is video and pictures on another blog I run. There is no way I am going to host any of that stuff on Facebook or YouTube.

I also installed some new Wordpress plugins due to some suggestions that I saw from a friend's inquiry on Facebook. My new favorite plugin is Broken Link Checker. It found 8 dead links (1 false positive) on my two blogs. It was so easy just to double check that the link was bad and than click the "unlink" button. A majority of the dead links were Yahoo links. I'll have to remember that for later.

I was half tempted to reinstate my automatic Twitter posting software, WP to Twitter, but then I remembered that I have only 4 people following me on Twitter. :)