Some of my websites have seen a large increase in traffic lately and have obviously grown in popularity if the traffic, page views and number of comments are any indication. I would hate for anything to happen to my sites such as a failure at my web host that wiped out my sites contents on their servers.

I would be absolutely devastated if I lost the contents of my sites with no way of recovering the information. Equally, if something were to happen to one of my home computers that caused me to lose precious financial data, my many photographs, graphics and other bits of information that I consider important I’d be quite upset.

I do backup my sites on my computer, and since I have two computers I keep a copy of my most important information on each one, but that’s starting to load up my hard drives as the amount of backup storage space needed gets bigger and bigger.

That’s why I’m thinking of using IDrive-E Online Backup. Sure I might still continue to back up onto my computers but I’d also have the added security of having an online backup.

IDrive-E is a leading consumer online backup service. You can encrypt the data that you store, and you’ll have open file backup support as well as a number of other fantastic features.

It’s also free! IDrive-E offers 2GB of free remote backup space. What’s more- there are no backup or restore restrictions, no bandwidth limits, and no file type restrictions either. So you could do a daily backup of your precious data without any problem at all.

You can set it up and do fully automated remote backups of your files and folders, and be assured that your data is secure since IDrive-E uses advanced data encryption. You can also do incremental backups, mapped drive backup and so on.

If you need more than 2GB of storage space you can get unlimited storage space for just $4.95 per month or purchase 12 months worth of IDrive-E online backup for only 49.50 which of course means that you get two months free of charge.

I’m going to try their free service for now and if I need more storage space I might purchase their one year plan. Certainly for the peace of mind and security it gives you, you can’t beat a free offer like this.