Essential Tips for Creating a WordPress Backup Plan

Always have a backup plan and ensure you can quickly restore your website. "

Your website is your digital identity. As a business owner or content creator, it’s essential to make security and disaster recovery a top priority for your WordPress website. Keeping backups and having the right disaster recovery plan in place are key to keeping your presence even when the unexpected happens. Having backups is something that’s often overlooked when deploying and maintaining a website as it doesn’t relate to revenue or expanding your customer reach. But when your website does go down, you’ll be thankful you implemented these simple tips.

What are good backups?

Backups need to be accessible if your current hosting provider goes down or is hacked. Offsite and easily deployable are what separates good backups from inadequacy. This typically means employing your own backup strategy so that you maintain control. You may not be able to restore the website yourself from a technical perspective, however, you will at least have the data a skilled WordPress development team to act on.

How often do you need to backup?

Typically a nightly backup is sufficient for most websites. However, if you oversee a high volume web presence with many leads, orders, or transactions throughout the day, you should plan on implementing something much more frequent. Hourly backups can create a large repository very quickly but may be may be worth it your situation. Ask yourself this, “How much data am I willing to lose?”. And you should have your answer.

What WordPress backup plugin should I use?

Simplicity is always our recommendation. That is why we use the simple and easy to use backup plugin called BackupBank to manage all of our client’s websites. There’s a free version as well as a Pro tier that offers great flexibility, configuration options, and backup destinations like Google Cloud Storage and Dropbox.

Learn more about BackupBank on their website at: https://www.backupbank.io

Conclusion

eTecc Interactive has been building, maintaining, and securing WordPress websites for it’s clients for many years. They rely on us to make the right choices to ensure they’re well protected.

Need help making sure you’re WordPress website is protected? Contact us to learn more about how we can help you secure and recover your website.