Why are website backup important?

Have you ever accidentally deleted a file on your computer? Was it important? Did you suffer? Imagine if your whole website got deleted today! This could happen in any number of ways. There are many businesses who have lost their website (through a hard drive crash, bankrupt ISP, etc.) or tried to recover a lost website that once belonged to someone else.

Imagine coming to work one morning and receiving call from one of your customers. They have been trying to access your website, but it is not reachable. To your shock, you discover your web site has been hacked. Everything got erased, and your entire web site is gone.

You call your web-hosting company. They may ask you any number of questions. One of them may be “Have you got a current backup?”. Sadly 87% of people will answer “No” to that question.

The truth is, without a full current backup, it is almost certain you will not be able to recover from this situation.

It is true that many hosting companies offer automatic website backups for their customers it is crucial to never rely on your hosting company alone for your website backups. If there is a company wide or server wide issue then your website backup data will be lost right along with your primary website data.

With this in mind, you should try an automatic website backup service that lets you enter your website info in, schedule how often you want your website to be backed up (daily, weekly, monthly, etc.), and then select an option to receive email notifications whenever your backup has completed successfully.