If Your Website goes Down, Will it Hurt Your Business?
New websites can cost many $1,000’s to build. If your site gets compromised, it can disrupt the daily flow of your business. A compromised website can require significant time and expense to fully recover, or may need to be rebuilt from scratch (and paid for all over again).
Is a Website Protection Service For You?
If your website is an important part of your business, gets you new customers, or affects your bottom line, then it’s worth protecting. Your website’s importance to you and your customers will determine whether your site should have some insurance!
Website Backup and Restore
Website owners need to protect their investment by making regular copies (called “backups”) of their website in case the site gets compromised. And they need to store these backups in another location besides their website in case the computer server their website runs on crashes. This will allow for a quicker, easier and less costly recovery (called “restore”) of the compromised website.
The backup process requires specialized software, detailed processes and attention, and an off-site storage plan for successful backups to occur. Backups are only half the battle. The backups need to be tested to ensure they can be restored on your hosting platform, if needed.
Get Website Protection from the Pros
Speedy Sites has been developing and protecting WordPress websites since 2009. Having already invested our money in the proven software to protect your website investment, and perfecting an efficient process to execute and store backups, Speedy Sites is uniquely qualified to handle your website backup and restore needs.
How to Backup Your WordPress Website?
A Website backup plan which secures your website and protects the investments you’ve already made in your website is the right solution. The three major elements needed to protect your investment in your website are:
- Installation of specialized software to thwart possible future compromises
- Regular updates to the software on the website
- Regular backups in case of a compromised site
The “Piece of Mind” Website Maintenance Plan
The full plan contains two parts:
- Software maintenance
- Backup services
SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE
Services include:
- Initial software updates and deletions (WordPress, Plugins and Themes as appropriate)
- Initial removal of unused plugins and themes
- Ongoing, quarterly updates to software
BACKUP SERVICES
Services include:
Initial set-up
- Installation of security software to prevent, monitor and fix problems.
- Run initial scan of site for existing compromises
- Install backup/restore software
- Configure off-site storage service
- Test backup/restore software
- Run initial backup process
- Review login IDs and passwords, make changes as necessary for the following*:
- WordPress installation
- Hosting account
- FTP accounts
Ongoing services
- Perform backups:
- quarterly
- each time Speedy Sites makes changes to your website
- Redundant storage of backup files (up to two years) on:
- your website’s server
- off-site, professional storage service
- Monitor ongoing successful backup process execution, manage version control
This plan is the safest plan because:
- It ensures that you always have a viable backup to recover from
- Backup files are stored in multiple locations in case of a server crash
- Backup files are manually monitored to ensure proper/continued execution
- No site changes are ever lost as backups are taken after every Speedy Sites update
* New clients must provide IDs/Passwords for WordPress, Hosting, FTP accounts. Speedy Sites likely already knows this information for current/active clients.