Why Your Word­Press Backup So­lu­tion Should In­volve Off Site Storage

You’ve got your new Word­Press web­site up and run­ning for your blog or busi­ness and every­thing looks great.

Things are run­ning smoothly and you’re be­gin­ning to see how hav­ing an ef­fec­tive on­line pres­ence can roll right into profits.

How­ever, it is­n’t nec­es­sar­ily smooth sail­ing from here.

There are a few vi­tal re­spon­si­bil­i­ties that can’t be ne­glected if you want to ac­tu­ally main­tain an ef­fi­cient, se­cure and fully func­tion­ing site. One of those du­ties in­volves set­ting up a backup solution.

If you have yet to im­ple­ment a se­cu­rity and backup plan for your site, then it is sug­gested that you do that right away. 

As with most things in­volv­ing tech­nol­ogy, backup so­lu­tions have evolved over the years. Blog­gers and busi­ness own­ers no longer have to rely solely on hard drive back­ups or tapes to pro­tect their im­por­tant files or their web­site. Hard drive back­ups can’t al­ways be counted on to be free of hu­man er­ror or to be quickly re­cov­ered when needed.

This is why many have turned to the con­cept of off­site stor­age for their Word­Press backup solution.

What is Off­site Backup?

Off­site backup can get as sim­ple or as com­plex as you need it to be. The ba­sics of it in­volve pro­tect­ing all of a blog­ger’s or com­pa­ny’s web­site data from hack­ers, mal­ware, com­puter crashes, nat­ural dis­as­ters or any­thing else that can wipe out your content.

Copies of your files and data­base are sent to and stored in an off­site data cen­ter, keep­ing them safe from com­pro­mis­ing sit­u­a­tions that your on­site lo­ca­tion may face (fire, flood, theft, file cor­rup­tion, etc). You can se­lect which files are the most im­por­tant to back up and how of­ten you need back­ups performed.

Ben­e­fits of Off­site Backup

The great­est ben­e­fit of any good Word­Press backup so­lu­tion is peace of mind know­ing that all is not lost when dis­as­ter strikes.

You will be able to re­store your site quickly back to the orig­i­nal con­tent with the backed up files and database.

Us­ing off­site stor­age in­cludes the flex­i­bil­ity to per­form a man­ual backup with the sim­ple click of a but­ton or sched­ule them to be au­to­matic as of­ten as you wish.

Some other ad­van­tages are:

• data trans­fer is fast and does­n’t take up valu­able com­pany time,
• your files will be en­crypted for ex­tra security,
• con­tent can be ac­cessed any time you are away from the office,
• and file shar­ing is eas­ily avail­able be­tween co-workers.

Pre­pare your­self and your busi­ness for dis­as­ter. A Word­Press backup so­lu­tion that in­cludes off­site data stor­age gives you easy ac­cess to your con­tent and a high level of com­fort know­ing your pre­cious data is safe and sound.

About the Author

Tiffany Ol­son hails from North­ern Cal­i­for­nia and works as Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Man­ager at Op­ti­mize World­wide, a small web de­vel­op­ment firm based in Red­ding, CA. The team at Op­ti­mize use Word­Press as their #1 plat­form to build websites.