Website Backups – How To Do It Yourself

Website Backups – How To Do It Yourself

You never know when you’re going to have a website disaster.  At Novak Solutions, we’ve been called in to help with all kinds of website deaths.  We’ve seen websites taken down by viruses, websites taken over by viruses, websites lost due to unpaid hosting, websites lost due to an angry ex-employee or ex-contractor, and websites that just broke for no apparent reason.  Most small businesses in the Infusionsoft space have WordPress websites, which is awesome … until it isn’t.  WordPress is notorious for becoming bloated and buggy when a website is modified over and over and over again.  Our own WordPress website became so slow that we decided to completely rebuild it when did our last redesign instead of modifying what we already had. The point is – your website is an incredibly valuable piece of your business, and you’ve probably invested thousands or tens of thousands of dollars in it. No matter where your website is hosted or who manages it for you, you need to keep a backup.  A website backup gives you two crucial abilities. If your website is corrupted or lost for any reason, you can get it back up with just a few button clicks (or paying a tech guy a couple hundred dollars to make the clicks for you) If you need to switch web hosts for any reason, you already have your website packaged up and ready. With a couple clicks (or just getting a tech guy) you have it back up and running exactly as it was before. How do I backup my website?   Most web hosts provide a backup...