A website backup, the insurance everyone forgets about
Nobody gets excited about backups. They are like insurance, you pay and hope you never need them. Until the day a plugin update takes down the whole site and you have nothing to fall back on.
When a backup saves the day
- A failed WordPress or plugin update.
- A break-in and infection with malicious code.
- Accidental deletion of content or a mistake while editing.
- A failure on the hosting side.
In each of these cases a fresh backup turns a disaster into a few minutes of inconvenience.
The rule is simple: a backup you have not tested is not a backup. A backup only makes sense if you know the site can actually be restored from it.
How often to back up
It depends on how often your site changes. A shop with orders every day needs a daily backup. For a company brochure site, a weekly one is plenty. The important thing is to do them automatically, because manual ones always get forgotten.
This is exactly the kind of thing we handle quietly in the background as part of ongoing care, so you do not have to think about it.