Using SSL wise for vBulletin?

[thetechgenius]

I have SSL/HTTPS enabled throughout my entire forum. I haven't had any issues yet, and I have a few mods

Is running SSL with vbulletin a good idea? I have a legit SSL Certificate from comodo, so there's no problem there. Are there any downsides for running SSL with vBulletin?

I have another question.

How can I setup an Automated Backup of my forum, including Database and Website Root Directory? I am on a Windows Server, Windows Server 2008R2. Is there any software that can do this, or maybe any PHP Scripts? Would setting up a Cron task work for backups on a windows server? I'm not sure about this because I never setup Auto backups on a windows server before.

[CAG CheechDogg]

There is nothing wrong with you running SSL on your vbulletin script at all...I do and have no problems at all ..

[Dave]

It's always wise to use HTTPS instead of HTTP.
Regarding the automated backup, for an other project I use task scheduler as well.

What you have to do is setup a new task and let it call a .bat file, in this .bat file you can simply use mysqladmin to backup the database and a basic copy script to backup the website. Or even better, rar the files afterwards to save some disk space.

[thetechgenius]

Originally Posted by Dave

It's always wise to use HTTPS instead of HTTP.
Regarding the automated backup, for an other project I use task scheduler as well.

What you have to do is setup a new task and let it call a .bat file, in this .bat file you can simply use mysqladmin to backup the database and a basic copy script to backup the website. Or even better, rar the files afterwards to save some disk space.

Oh ok, that sounds great! I will look into creating batch files for backup with mysqladmin. Thank you!