Everyone agrees backups matter, right up until they need one and discover it either doesn’t exist or doesn’t work. A real backup strategy requires more than a single checkbox in your hosting dashboard.
What a Backup Needs to Do
A backup that only lives on the same server as your site protects you from nothing if that server goes down. A real backup strategy runs automatically, stores copies offsite, and keeps enough history to go back further than a day or two. Test it now and then, so you know it restores when you need it.
The Real Cost of Not Having One
60% of small businesses close within six months of a significant data loss event, according to Cybersecurity Ventures research cited by CrashPlan. Separately, industry research shows that the businesses hit hardest by an attack are the ones without a clean, tested way to recover their data and get back online. Businesses with a working backup have a bad week. The ones without one might not reopen.
Downtime and data loss tend to arrive together. See what a website going down actually costs a local business for the other half of this problem.
What’s Included on Every Stagecoach Plan
- Daily Site Backups, running automatically without you triggering them
- 30-day retention, so you’re not limited to restoring only yesterday’s version
- One-Click Staging, so you can test changes without touching your live site
Backups Alone Aren’t Security
A backup gets you back online after something goes wrong. It doesn’t stop the something from happening. For that, pair it with the protections covered in our WordPress security basics guide: Daily Malware Scans, Advanced Security, and Managed Plugin Updates, so you prevent problems instead of only cleaning up after them.
Frequently Asked Questions
How often should backups run?
Daily, at minimum, for any site that changes regularly or handles customer information. That’s the default on every Stagecoach plan.
Can I restore a backup myself?
Reach out through Contact and we’ll walk you through a restore, or handle it directly depending on what happened.
What’s the difference between backups and staging?
A backup restores your site to a previous state. Staging lets you test changes on a copy of your site before they go live, so you catch problems before they ever reach visitors.
Every plan detail, including how backups and retention work tier by tier, is on Features and Pricing. Not sure your current setup is covered? Ring the Stagecoach and ask.