Mobile Podcast : Drupal : WordPress : Easy Backup : Best Host : Help

Here’s a quick podcast on my Drupal and WordPress anxieties.  The purpose?  To discover some CMS geniuses who can help alleviate my fears.  I’ll be posting a video podcast in the next post… come on back within the hour to take a look at it.

I have no anxiety whatsoever with standard websites.  If I lose a page, I simply click the upload button in Dreamweaver and we’re back to where we were in mere seconds.

This isn’t the case with CMS.

A single line of code gone bad can destroy an entire site… and if that site is thousands of posts deep, we have a problem.

Listen to the podcast and leave some comments.  I’d love it if you could answer these questions with both Drupal and WordPress in mind:

1. What is the easy, ‘slam dunk’, fool-proof method of backup and restore?
2. What do I do if a single line of code (for example, in .htaccess) brings down the entire site?  How do I find the offending code and file?
3. What is the best of the best web host that specializes in Drupal and WordPress?  I’m currently using 1and1.com. 
4. How can I restore if my server only allows 8mb of file uploads? (I had this problem when my WPMU failed.  The restore file was over 20mb.)
5. For Drupal, where can I find some magazine style themes for free?  The themes are boring!
6. Can I have true confidence in setting up my clients in WP and Drupal?  Can I guarantee against data loss?  Can a downed site be brought back up within an hour?

My WordPress site is www.revolutionexperience.com and my Drupal site is www.20elements.com.

Thanks!

Here’s the podcast!

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John