There was no such a day that Mozy skipped my backup. My backups are scheduled in advance. The customer service is very good. I needed to call once or twice since I became a customer. I am always treated with respect and care by the customer service of Mozy. I love it. The best part of it: if my computer ever crushes again, I can grab my files from Mozy without asking for any favors, at the time convenient for me. Free of charge – that makes a big difference. Check out the unlimited online backup service chosen by Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal

Free software installation, free excellent support, no setup fees, no credit cards needed to start the service, no monthly payments, no expiration – is it a Paradise or what?

The instructions to set up your service are very easy; all your questions will be answered in the most courteous manner possible. You will need to create a Mozy user account. That will allow you to download the software package that is necessary to have to be serviced. Quick, easy and the step-by-step instructions will guide you through the process. You can select files to be backed up. All you need to do is to check the boxes next to to the backup sets. When you are done with setting up your backup runs, you can forget about it. Mozy will do the rest. If your computer crashed you can get your files any time. It does not matter where you are: at home, in a business trip or on vacation. My personal choice is online backup. The company can encrypt your data if you request, but you do not have to do it. My personal reasons for selecting an online company to backup my computer:
• I do not want my files to be wiped out at the time of hard drive crash.
• The data is stored in a secure online facility and is available at the time convenient for me.
• Backups done by Mozy provide security and peace of mind for me.

Your computer crashed. Don’t hit it, please. Don’t get mad and don’t throw it out. Get away from it. That’s right – take a break. Cool off. Yes, it’s very frustrating. I know. Been there, done that.

What a pain! That’s what it was for me. Both of my computers crashed almost simultaneously. The laptop was a little over a year old; the desktop was about 1.5 years old at the time.    As a  matter of fact, you can see both of my hard drives on the picture.

It was kind of like a ‘vacation’ for me: I called all my friends, watched TV more then I usually do, cooked something new. It was fun. I had no choice: there was no computer in the house and I could not go ahead with my project.

It was a big loss for me: I had to pay for two new disks; I lost 50 % of my data. On top of that, I was told by the technician that I did not need security software. The guy that fixed my computers gave me free software. He said it was good. I did not bother to find out what kind of software that was and why he thought it was good. Guess what that did to both of my computers. That’s right, they got infected with viruses very fast. Now I know: it was not good at all.

Of course, I knew very well that I had to back up my computer. But I procrastinated and procrastinated and … You got the picture. At that point I bought an external drive. I could plug it in and backup my computer. I remember I paid close to $130.00 at that time. It was good for a while. Looking back, at that point I had to start using Mozy.

As time went by, I understood that I needed more space on my computer to store backups. I found the solution to my problem: free backups provided by the best company, Mozy. I’ve been using their services for over a year now. For me the service is free for a while. My database grew fast.

Mozy gives you 2 GB free storage – huge amount of space. If that amount of space is sufficient for your backup, you can have it for free now. Sign up for Mozy

You decided to start a blog. There is such a great variety of blogs today: photoblog, artlog, sketchblog, vlog (video blog), music blog (MP3 blog), audio (podcasting) and professional blog. Yes, it’s true – companies hire bloggers.

A couple of months ago I created a search for word ‘blog’ on www.dice.com – one of the major employment boards I’ve been using for years. I get consistent results for the last couple of months. I repeated the same search today. It brought me 160 jobs throughout USA that included the word ‘blog’. A couple of months ago the quantity of jobs that mentioned the word ‘blog’ was significantly less. Blogs are hugely popular today.

What should be your next step? You need to decide the type of application you will use. There is a variety of blog applications available today: Serendipity, Blogengine, DasBlog to name a few. In my opinion, the best platform for a blog is WordPress – www.wordpress.org . It gives you many benefits. You can have free flexible software that will perform a variety of functions for you. It is considered premiere blog software today. It allows you to have your own domain name. Free software is a great idea, it works for many people. After tinkering with free software I made a decision to buy the theme you are looking at right now – Thesis. I am fascinated by the quality and the support of the crew. It provides many features and can be fully personalized.

You need to decide where your blog will reside. Many companies offer free computer space for blogs: www.wordpress.com, www.blogomonster.com, www.livejournal.com, etc. The list of companies that provide free space is long. If your blog resides on free space you will have a sub domain name. You will not be an independent domain owner.