A backup that lives on the same server as your website isn't much of a backup. If that server goes down, gets hacked, or the host has a bad day, whatever was stored there goes with it. We keep automatic copies of your entire site off-site, on a separate schedule, so there's always a clean version to go back to.
Call (775) 444-9650Your full website, files, database, everything that makes the site actually run, gets backed up automatically on a regular schedule and stored somewhere separate from the hosting account itself. That separation is the part that gets skipped on a lot of DIY setups: a backup plugin that saves copies to the same server it's protecting doesn't help much if the whole server is the thing that goes down. We keep multiple recent copies too, not just the latest one, since sometimes a problem isn't caught right away and the most recent backup already has it baked in.
If a plugin update breaks something, a hack gets through, or someone on your team accidentally deletes a page or overwrites content that mattered, the fix is restoring from the most recent clean backup instead of rebuilding whatever was lost from memory. That's a difference of an hour versus days, and it's the difference between a bad afternoon and an actual crisis depending on how much of the site was affected. Restoring a full site from a backup and rebuilding it from scratch are not close to the same job, even when the end result looks similar, because rebuilding means recreating every page, every image, and every setting from whatever you can remember or find saved somewhere else.
Reno and Sparks businesses that skip backups usually find out why they matter at the worst possible time, mid-hack, mid-update-gone-wrong, right after a host's server crashed with no warning. Rebuilding a site from scratch after losing it isn't just a design problem. It's lost service pages, lost blog content that took time to rank, and lost contact form setups — all of which affect how the site performs in search and how customers reach you in the meantime. Search rankings especially don't come back the moment a rebuilt page goes live, since Google has to recrawl and re-index everything from zero, which can mean weeks of reduced visibility on top of whatever the outage already cost.
Some hosts already include solid automated off-site backups as part of the plan, and layering a second backup system on top of one that's already working is mostly redundant. Confirming what's already in place matters more than selling a duplicate. This matters most for sites that get updated or changed regularly. A site that's been static and untouched for years with no backup at all is still exposed, but the urgency is lower than for a site with active plugin updates and content changes happening on it.
On a regular automatic schedule, not something that depends on someone remembering to run it manually. If the site is actively changing, that schedule is tighter than it would be for a site that rarely gets updated.
Usually well under an hour once we've confirmed which backup to restore from. The time-consuming part is almost never the restore itself. It's figuring out exactly when something went wrong, so we restore to the right point instead of one that's too early or too late.
Off-site, separate from whatever server hosts your live site, so a problem with the hosting account itself doesn't also take out the backup that's supposed to fix it.
Call (775) 444-9650 or fill out the form below to get automatic backups running on your site.