there are 3 ways you should back up your website and yes, you should use all of them.

1. Using WordPress Plugins
2. Hosting Backups
3. Cloud External Backup

Note: AllThingsWP does all of them for every client no matter the package.

WordPress Plugin

There is Plugin known as WP-DP-Backup. (click it for the WordPress page). It is really good.

What it does is every few days compresses all your databases and saves them in your root folder. If your databases was to crash, the last save would live in a matter of a few clicks. This is a practice that AllThingsWP makes on a regular basis.

Hosting Backup

Every hosting company, including AllThingsWP, normally backs up your entire database structure at least weekly (our practice). If for some reason, your website’s table are crashed and somehow there was a corruption in the backup, the most you would lose is up to the last 7 days. The last backup from the hosting provider would go live.

This is a little higher level backups than your WordPress plugin.

Cloud Backup

Since companies like Amazon’s EC2 offer a 1GB of free Storage that are not on the server of your website, it is a best practice to host a database on a remote server since as the EC2. We back up every client’s website on the following schedule:

Basic Account: 1 time a month.

Business Account: 1 times every 2 weeks.

First Class Account: 1 time a week.

Corporate Account: 1 time a day.

A fourth way to backup is to download a copy every so often as well. If you are a client of ours and you request, we will be more than happy to do that as often as you ask.

Some hosting companies, namely Godaddy, has “Quick Installs.” Why pay someone like AllthingsWP to install a script when you get do a quick install? I want to take the time to answer that.

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