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Website backup what it is and why you need it.<\/h2>\n
If you wonder why should you ever do your WordPress websites backup, here is a small example: the average cost of server downtime for business is over 300’000 dollars. You will lose not only money but also all the data you have uploaded. So if your website is related to business it’s a good example of why you need backup. Even if you do a backup, it does not mean that your website will not crash or get hacked. It grants you the possibility to bring your website back to work faster. What means that backing up your WordPress website is a really smart and useful idea.<\/p>\n
However, creating your WordPress website backup can be pretty hard. If you do it manually, it takes plenty of time which you may not have. Whilst plugin automatizes this work, not all of them are doing their job correctly. Still, most of the website owners choose to use a plugin. So if you plan on setting a plugin for your WordPress website, you should make a research on which to use.<\/p>\n
Basic tips of backup<\/h3>\n
So you are creating a backup of your website. A good idea for you is to create various backups. At least one of the backups should be stored in cloud storage on a different server. This precaution ensures you that you will not lose all of them at the same time.<\/p>\n
After choosing a plugin that you find trustworthy, you should set the frequency of backups. Frequency of your website backups depends on how often you update information on your website. If you do it every day, you should consider creating a new backup every day.<\/p>\n