{"id":1693,"date":"2019-10-22T10:00:04","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T02:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mondoze.com\/blog\/?p=1693"},"modified":"2022-09-25T00:45:36","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T16:45:36","slug":"5-reasons-why-its-important-to-perform-a-website-backup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mondoze.com\/blog\/tip-sharing\/5-reasons-why-its-important-to-perform-a-website-backup","title":{"rendered":"5 reasons why it\u2019s important to perform a website backup"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1693\" class=\"elementor elementor-1693\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5ec5180a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5ec5180a\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3d181171\" data-id=\"3d181171\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3c68cc72 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3c68cc72\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<h3><strong>What is a Website Backup?<\/strong><\/h3><p>Simply put,\u00a0the best insurance plan that any owner of a website can bring into to stop disasters is the website backup.<\/p><p>If you don&#8217;t want to end up accidentally selling prescriptions to all your users, then it&#8217;s imperative you back up your site files (preferably in multiple locations) to keep your content safe and secure.<\/p><p>5 reasons to perform a website backup<\/p><ul><li>Accidents happen.<\/li><li>Getting hacked is a grim reality.<\/li><li>Computers crash all the time.<\/li><li>Updates can go wrong.<\/li><li>You miss a bill or payment.<\/li><\/ul><p>Let&#8217;s take a closer look at each explanation.<\/p><ol><li><h3><strong> Accidents happen<\/strong><\/h3><\/li><\/ol><p>People make mistakes, it\u2019s an unavoidable, universal truth. Somebody can click the wrong button, delete an incorporated folder, and you know that your page has been disabled. Many people assume they will be secured against such issues by their hosting provider, but it is still likely that they will not have the latest copy.<\/p><p>However, it may not be instantly possible to have the disaster recovery backups to get your website up and running again (queue the panic over your morning coffee). And even if an immediate backup is possible, the cost alone may be astronomical, and this often is not taken into consideration in the business budget.<\/p><ol start=\"2\"><li><h3><strong> Getting hacked is a grim reality<\/strong><\/h3><\/li><\/ol><p>WordPress, the most commonly used content management system (CMS), <a href=\"https:\/\/torquemag.io\/2016\/10\/13-surprising-wordpress-statistics-updated-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">accounts for approximately 27 percent of all websites<\/a> currently live on the internet. It\u2019s also an open-source platform, which means anyone, and everyone has access to the coding.<\/p><p>If you\u2019re running a WordPress site, this could spell danger for you. As a small business owner, your days are hectic, we get it. You might miss that core update or not get to it until a few weeks down the line. But if you\u2019re not maintaining a website backup and skipping out on updates, you could be out some serious bucks. In fact, according to the Denver Post, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2016\/10\/23\/small-companies-cyber-attack-out-of-business\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">60 percent of small businesses<\/a> who suffer from a malware attack are out of business within six months.<\/p><ol start=\"3\"><li><h3><strong> Computers crash all the time<\/strong><\/h3><\/li><\/ol><p>It doesn&#8217;t mean you are safe simply because you hold a backup on your local computer. Computers always crash while it&#8217;s a good practice. The hard drives are unreadable and any attempt that you can make to safeguard your site may go away immediately.<\/p><p>Generally speaking, the backups are a good idea to be liberal Only delete what you think you don&#8217;t need anymore and store multiple copies to ensure that your page is up to date.<\/p><ol start=\"4\"><li><h3><strong> Updates can go wrong<\/strong><\/h3><\/li><\/ol><p>At times, it&#8217;s not as expected to upgrade your central files or a plugin. Just press the update button and you know that you don&#8217;t live on the website next thing. Your boss calls, your customers complain, you lose money, and you&#8217;re moaning and grumbling. Would it not be nice to just touch a button and restore the previous state of your website? On this one, I&#8217;m going to go with a yes.<\/p><ol start=\"5\"><li><h3><strong> You miss a bill or payment<\/strong><\/h3><\/li><\/ol><p>It always happens. You have received a new card and forgot to update your hosting provider details. You tried to pay several times, but your junk folder was all the failed billing notices. Your site finally falls. Of course, you will have to repurchase your hosting contract, but you could also charge a restore fee to return your site online (if you give one), of course.<\/p><p>To addition to the additional cost of rebuilding the website, you are now also looking at time lost. Time spent with your provider on mobile, time without a website to browse, time without income. Time is money, we all know, and wasted time is money. Keeping the right website backup can save you tons in both ways.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is a Website Backup? Simply put,\u00a0the best insurance plan that any owner of a website can bring into to stop disasters is the website backup. If you don&#8217;t want to end up accidentally selling prescriptions to all your users, then it&#8217;s imperative you back up your site files (preferably in multiple locations) to keep &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mondoze.com\/blog\/tip-sharing\/5-reasons-why-its-important-to-perform-a-website-backup\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">5 reasons why it\u2019s important to perform a website backup<\/span> Read More \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":"","_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0},"categories":[30],"tags":[39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mondoze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mondoze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mondoze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mondoze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mondoze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1693"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.mondoze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14081,"href":"https:\/\/www.mondoze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions\/14081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mondoze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mondoze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mondoze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mondoze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}