Is Your WordPress Site Backed Up? I Thought So Too

If you run a WordPress blog or website, like I do, you know that having your data secure is critical to keeping your site up and running. I worry about hackers, but most often, I’ve broken my site all by myself! That’s why I am very careful to make SURE my site is always backed up.

I learned this lesson the hard way, so I’m hoping I can save you from that moment of panic when I realized my site of ten years might be going down the tubes!

Learn from my mistakes and use Updraft Plus to backup your site.

Now I love WordPress, but I really had my reservations from moving away from nice, stable, SAFE Blogger. Not that you can’t break your site in Blogger, but it’s a lot more rare. In WordPress, you can just breathe wrong and crash your site. Trust me, I’ve done it – lots of times. Plus the hackers are a LOT more interested in WordPress sites, so there is a constant threat of malicious activity.

If your site crashes, are you prepared? With Updraft Plus, you will be.
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When I started with WordPress, I paid my host a dollar a month extra for their backup plan. I thought I was being smart, but as it turns out a dollar was about what that plan was worth! What I discovered is that while your host does ensure that your site is backed up every day, they also overwrite that backup EVERY DAY. I’m sure they do that to save money, but it’s a horrible plan.

It may take half a day for you to notice that your site is hacked, or crashed, or broken. You might not see it until the next morning, so there goes 8 hours. Then it may take you another few hours to figure out what to do, and to get through to your host company. Ooops! By then, the malicious or corrupted code may be incorporated into your backup copy.

Do you have a tech person on call when your site crashes? I didn’t

Many bloggers are lucky enough to have a computer-smart spouse or kid, but it’s just me here. I’m pretty techy, so I can handle the simple stuff. I have a few tech folks I hire for the big stuff, but that gets expensive. So, most of the time, I’m dealing with problems on my own. So I needed a solution I could handle on my own. I checked around and asked all my smartest blogger friends and they told me to use Updraft Plus to keep my site backed up.

Updraft Plus is great because it’s simple to set up. Took me like 15 minutes. Also, I can store like a week’s worth of backups, so I can go back before the bad thing happened. It also backs up into separate zip files, like themes, posts, and plugins. So if a plugin gets corrupted, I can just restore the plugin files without having to mess with my posts or theme.

You can store the backed up data wherever you want – your computer, the cloud, or you can buy storage from Updraft. That’s what I do, and I even bought some extra storage so I can use Updraft Plus on the site I run for a charity. It saves them money because we can share the same account and it keeps both sites backed up automatically. Best of all, I get a message every day telling me that my backup has succeeded and I am using XX amount of my storage. It just gives me peace of mind.

If you want to check it out, I do have an affiliate code for Updraft Plus. They haven’t compensated me for writing a review or anything. I just thought it would be helpful for people. If you click through and sign up with them, I get a small commission. Get Updraft Plus HERE.