Website Backup

Your website represents mny hours work and a significant dollar investment by your business. It is also the heart of your business communicatuion with your customers. Although a powerful tool, it is also fragile and exposed to many risks. Even the best website security tools can fail, servers can breack down, faults and errors can occur, leaving your website off-line, damaged, infected, deleted. A compromised website is no good to your business or the online community. We can defend but we cannot defeat every misfortune that threatens our websites daily. But we can minimize the riok. Maintaining website backups is a simple, fast and cheap method of restoring a healthy website regardess of how it got damaged.

Your backups are a compressed archive of all the data in your cPanel account. It can be used by the cPanel system to complete recreate your account - passwords, email accounts, website configuration, website systems and data - everything. Backup archives are portable and complete. To restore your site from a backup you only need to request a retore from yoru webhost and make the archive file available. The website will be restored to the condition it was in on the day the backup was made. The archive can also be deconstructed to provide component restores such as files only or database.

Backup archives are seriously compressed to minimize the filesize of transfers, but yes, they will us bandwidth each time a backup is transferred off-site to the secure storage location. Hence the importance of planning a backup schedule that will maximise your security with a reasonable bandwidth use. Often there is no need to backup all the website all the time. Factors such as type of data stored on the site and the rate of data change influence backup planning.

We can help you analyze your data backup needs and plan a suitable backup schdule and restoration plan so that every aspect of your website backup process is known in advance and that you are confident that your data and investment is safe.