A backup of a website is a copy of its content, that is kept on a different server and can be restored if something happens. This option is very useful, since you can't know if a script update won't crash or if you won't erase something unintentionally - a file, a folder, a database entry, etcetera. If your site is backed up, it could be restored the way it was prior to when the problem appeared, so there shall not be any damage, or at least it will be minimal, depending on the specific scenario. Keeping backups on your computer isn't very feasible, as you would have to do it at least once each day and you can still lose information in case your last backup is not recent enough. In this light, you'll have to rely on your website hosting provider, so you ought to double-check their policy on the backups, given that some companies create backups only once each week, which will do no good if a problem occurs with a site that's being used and updated all of the time, such as an online store, for example.
Daily Data Back-up in Shared Hosting
If you buy any of the shared hosting plans we provide, you can take advantage of the backup function provided with our plans by default and at no extra cost. We shall create a copy of your files and databases not once, but no less than 4 times a day, so any time an issue shows up on your website for some reason, we will swiftly restore everything, and in the worst scenario, your site will be restored the way it was only a few hours ago. There are two ways for a backup to be restored - you may contact us via a support ticket and we'll do what’s required on our end within an hour, or you may directly copy the info from the backup to the live Internet site folder from the File Manager section of the Hepsia website hosting CP, where you shall find all the backups that have been produced listed in chronological order.
Daily Data Back-up in Semi-dedicated Servers
Our system creates a full data backup of the files and databases in every semi-dedicated server account created on our cutting-edge hosting platform, so if you host your sites with us, you'll never need to cope with info loss, particularly having in mind that the backup copies are produced at least four times every day and are kept a minimum of one week. Restoring the content usually takes no more than a few minutes and could be carried out in two ways. The first is to open a support ticket with that request, suggesting from which specific date you wish the backup to be restored. The other way is to restore the content on your own, since the backups are available within the File Manager section of the Control Panel and you can take a look at them freely to see what every single folder contains. All it will take to restore a backup is to copy the contents of the backup folder to the domain folder. You will be able to see the timestamp for each backup inside the account, so you can use the one you need.