One of the most painful aspects of web hosting is the number clients who don’t make regular backups of their own sites. If you are relying strictly on your most recent updates being available on your hosting plan’s server – than you are doing yourself a disservice and setting yourself up for potential disaster!

Backups are the most important thing you should know about after purchasing your Powered By Fish hosting plan and launching your website. You never know what can happen to a server. Machines can fail. In fact, at some point every machine does – no matter how good your hosting provider is!

Having a current and complete backup of your website is the only way to ensure you can be quickly back up and running after a potential issue.

Your backup files themselves should be stored off-site – in a remote location. Your backup doesn’t do you any good if it’s stored on the same server that just crashed!

We urge you to find a process, service or method that works well and is easy for you to perform. Make it a regular habit to backup your site and the databases that are associated with your site. Contact us today and we can help guide your through the best way to make backups quickly and as painless as possible.

Don’t have the time to hassle with backups? Check out our partner company Grow Fish Design. They offer full-service maintenance plans to fit any budget that include technical support, regular backups, website updates and more.

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