|
Manual backups will work for a small website with a small number of viewers and a small staff, but as your website audience and staff grows in size, you can seldom afford to allow your website to go offline. Whilst manual backups offer more choice, it is definitely more cumbersome to keep manually backing up your website. You can read more about to how to use manual backups in our full guide on how to backup WordPress.
Generally website admins are far too busy to manually back up their Country Email List websites and failure to backup regularly can leave your website susceptible to avoidable downtime, should your website lose any data or fall victim to a hack. Or if your host’s servers come under attack physical (Any natural disaster, take your pick) or otherwise. For a website with a respectably large audience, it is best that you use a premium back up service or plugin. And even if your website isn’t a very popular one, you should still employ a free plugin at the very least.
Even if you are on a tight budget, spending a little extra on a backup service is money well spent. These services do all of the heavy lifting for you, so you can sleep soundly know that your WordPress site is in good hands. But we’ve done our best to include the best of the best WordPress backup plugins – free and premium. So just because your budget doesn’t give you enough wiggle room for one of the paid options we mention, that doesn’t mean that you can’t find an awesome free plugin to help you regularly backup your site.
|
|