BACKUPS
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How we backup your WordPress website
Whatever steps we take to mitigate your site being compromised, however many firewalls we install, just sometimes a bad actor will slip through the net, and so we need to ensure we have multiple, safe backups.
Our backup system is threefold:
- Site Backups (on the server)
- Server Backups (to another server in the same data centre)
- Site Backups to cloud storage
We take backups of your WordPress site that are stored on the same server at set intervals on the schedule below. Should we need to, we can restore a backup of a site in less that 15 minutes.
There are two unwritten laws of the Web:
- Nothing is 100% secure, and
- All websites are under pretty much 24/7 constant attack.
Site Backups (secure cloud)
But what if there is a fire / a bomb goes off at the data centre?
Both are unlikely, but sadly possible. But – if either of these things happen, we have you covered with off site backups to the cloud.
Using per site software and secure storage using Amazon Cloud Services, we take backups at timed intervals that are sent, securely, to the cloud for storage. All the timed intervals are configurable and agreed on a client by client basis but as examples:
- We would take an off site backup of a simple brochure site weekly.
- We would take a backup of a site with regularly updated posts/news daily.
- We would take a backup of an ecommerce store daily and add incremental backups at hourly intervals.
What does all this mean?
It means your site is safe as we can make it. We do everything that we can to mitigate your site getting infected with malware and compromised, but if the worst happens, then we have multiple backups that we can restore rapidly to ensure that you are back in business as quickly as possible, and that your digital reputation is preserved.
Sample Site Backup Schedule (on server)
| Hourly Backups (first 12 hours) | Daily Backups (first week) | Weekly Backups (first month) | Monthly Backups (for four months) |
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| Hour 1 | Day 1 | Week 1 | Month 1 |
| Hour 2 | Day 2 | Week 2 | Month 2 |
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