Refreshing User eXperience
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I’m a self-taught old guy with a son who does iPhone app programming and keeps pointing out to me the importance of UX. I’ve been using WP for years, installing my tiny blogsite all by myself on my own Godaddy virtual server running Centos 7, just because I’m a control freak and love to play with computers.
That said, this was an especially refreshing experience. Took maybe 15 minutes to install UpdraftPlus on my blogsite, make my first backup, activate my Google Drive account for backup, upload a backup, and read my incoming email describing what just happened. I explored a couple of false trails, and the app gently and correctly suggested how I could do what I seemed to be trying to do. I have Google Drive on 2-Step Verification so I was expecting to have to enter a code from my iPhone, but no, UpdraftPlus must have taken advantage of my desktop being already logged into Google. Once I clicked the correct button, everything happened just as I’d requested. Quickly. I checked – my local backup files were on my server where they’re supposed to be, and also on Google Drive in a shiny new folder named “Update Plus”. I seem to be scheduled for automated backup a week from now, both local and Drive, as I requested. All this for free.
What a delightful experience. If it’s still working a week from now, I’ll cheerfully donate some money. Meanwhile, back to my original task: update my outdated PHP version.
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