Why You Should Use a Website Backup Service
If you are like me then you can sometimes be very paranoid about losing your website data, your site going down, your hosting company screwing something up, a hacker doing damage to your site, etc. etc etc. (the more paranoid you are then the longer the list can grow). One thing that I do to help alleviate some of this paranoia is to consistently do full backups of all of my websites files and databases to multiple locations.
This is especially important if you are like me and you have multiple websites on multiple servers. Of course, doing complete website backups at least once a week and even better once a day is just plain smart even if you only have one site.
While it is true that many hosting companies offer automatic website backups for their customers it is crucial to never rely on your hosting company alone for your website backups because if there is a company wide or server wide issue then your website backup data will be lost right along with your primary website data.
With all of this in mind John and I recently created an automatic website backup service that lets you enter your website info in, schedule how often you want your website to be backed up (daily, weekly, monthly, etc.), and then select an option to receive email notifications whenever your backup has completed successfully.
Everything is automatic so you just have to enter the info in once and then sit back and let it do backups for you according to the schedule that you specify. This is nice because you can just set it and forget it without having to worry about anything technical. The site will let you backup an unlimited number of websites and it does a full backup of all of your websites files and databases and will store the last 30 backups for you to log in and download at any time if a website data loss occurs.
The plans start at just $7/month which is pretty cheap insurance against the catastrophe that could occur with a loss of website data. Of course, if you are paranoid like me then you will want to backup your websites in triplicate by backing up at multiple locations or even more but with just a few clicks then this website backup service may be one really good option for you take take advantage of. Try it out and let us know what you think!
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