How would you feel if you invested hundreds of hours building and developing your website only to see it suddenly disappear? Devastated?
One of my customers (I’m not going to mention his name) recently ‘lost’ everything on his site.
He runs a very successful cleaning business, and we first met two years ago when I did a day’s training session with him. Since then he has developed a very good WordPress website with lots of useful tips for his customers and several impressive video tutorials.
The site crash happened when he upgraded to the latest version of WordPress, without backing up his content. His home page became a blank screen and he couldn’t access the site’s dashboard. His hosting company tried to help, but everything had gone.
He has started his site all over again and, whilst he’s making steady progress, it is a pale imitation of what he had. Oh, how he wishes he had been backing up his site properly.
With so many plugins around that should be easy. Right?
You would certainly think so. However, most people install a backup plugin and feel all fuzzy and safe about their website’s content.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of these plugins don’t give the level of protection needed! They just backup the database and that’s it.
I have become obsessive about backing up this website, and I recently discovered an excellent premium WordPress plugin called Blog Vault.
Blog Vault is the ultimate WordPress backup service, which backs up everything – database, files, themes, images, comments, posts, plugins. It has no equal!
OK, so it costs $9 per month (approximately £5.50), but it is possibly the best investment I’ve ever made!
Multiple copies of all the backed up data is stored automatically every day on secure Amazon S3 servers and a restore can be done from any backup created in the previous 30 days.
Blog Vault is more than capable of handling large sites with tons of photos, podcasts and videos with the same ease as small personal blogs.
Unlike other backup plugins, Blog Vault doesn’t create any local files on your WordPress site. Not only does this mean less disk usage, but also no more old files hanging around on your site.
There’s one feature I particularly LOVE – you can easily migrate your WordPress site and change your hosting provider as well as your domain. Blog Vault has an automatic restore tool, which lets you move your site without any manual work. Frankly, it is absolutely brilliant!
Whilst we take free WordPress plugins for granted, this is one plugin you should definitely be happy to pay $9 a month for. Do it. It really is a no brainer.
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