Nobody likes dealing with backups, but there will come a time when you will need them to save your butt. Regardless if the backup is for personal or business think about your backup strategy now, before your site goes down and you lose valuable data. I can tell you from first-hand experience that downtime at work will cost you money now and business in the future. And, from a personal side, you don’t want that terrible feeling of panic when a drive goes down and you think you just lost all of your personal photos.
Here is my personal tip: Even if you are making backups, take the time to test a restore to ensure that you really are making a backup and you can retrieve the data.
Your website is most likely up 99.9% of the time, and you don’t have too many conversations with your hosting support team. That is, if your site is online and operating as it should. Where you start spending a lot of time writing emails and making phone calls is when your web site goes down due to a server outage, hardware failure, data center contingency, or myriad of other reasons.
When this type of event happens, you should already have a very well defined backup strategy to restore any lost or unrecoverable business assets. That means your; customers, orders, products, images and nearly every other bit of information housed within your website.
It’s much better to be overly cautious and have the ability to restore your assets than be overly naïve and lose every hard earned customer you’ve acquired over the years.
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