Do you have a backup of your blog?<\/p>\n
Shouldn’t you?<\/p>\n
What if it got hacked? What if your host went under (or had a hardware failure and realized that their backups sucked)?<\/p>\n
How much effort, how much of your life would you lose?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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