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With much of our time spent online, it’s a certainty that many of the services we use – Facebook, Twitter, Photobucket, Gmail, etc. – house information that we’d like to keep secure. No system is infallible, crashes happening on even the most stable of networks, and we’d like to know that our data is protected in the event of such catastrophic occurrences.

Last month, one of my blog pieces touched upon a service called Backupify, a useful service that backs up the data resulting from your use of various online services – such as the aforementioned ones. As I noted in my initial writeup about Backupify, there is a subscription fee, Twitter backups being the only storage available for free.

However, offering what could be described as somewhat of a holiday gesture, Backupify is temporarily rescinding its pay structure. Available until January 31, 2010, Backupify has just announced that their service will provide unlimited backup storage for all accounts for free. This is an attempt to not only attract new users, but provide users who utilized just its free service an opportunity to try out its premium offerings.

Once this free offer expires, Backupify plans to introduce a new pay structure, one that replaces its exclusive pricing scheme for one that offers free limited backups for all of the services it provides storage for. However, if you’re one of those who takes advantage of this free offer now, you will maintain your free account for the duration of your use.

The services that Backupify currently supports are:

• Gmail
• Twitter
• Facebook
• Flickr
• Photobucket
• Google Docs
• Zoho
• Basecamp
• WordPress
• Blogger
• Hotmail
• Delicious
• FriendFeed

If you’re looking for the peace of mind that online backups provide, take advantage of this free offer now.

We always advise our clients to backup their data. No matter how new their system, the chance of a catastrophic crash is right around the corner, the likes of which possibly resulting in the loss of critical data. Well, in an age where much of our computer use centers around the internet, a good deal of that the data we prize is now stored online, making it difficult to back it up as easily as we would the information housed within our our hard drives.

Backupify is an extremely helpful service that solves that problem, backing up your online data – Facebook, Gmail, Photobucket, and more – so that you’re able to browse the web with a little less anxiety over how secure your information is should one of the sites you frequent experience problems that threaten the data you’ve stored since your account’s creation.

Once you’re signed up for Backupify, the service performs scheduled backups at one of the 10 online services it supports, requiring only that you provide the login information for that site you’d like backed up. After you’re set up, Backupify ensures that your information is never deleted – easing any worries you might have about  losing all of those blog posts you’ve put on your Facebook page.

There is a fee for subscribing to the service, but it’s certainly more than manageable, considering how critical the information is to many. While Twitter backups are free, the pay plans range from $3.95 $14.95 per month, with fluctuations in price contingent upon just how much you need stored.

This is for those of us who spend a considerable amount of time online, wanting to protect the data we store on the internet.

You can visit Backupify here.