What about Site Backups?

Now that your new website is up and running, you'll want to make sure that you have a good backup and recovery plan in place.

First, your website hosting vendor should provide regular nightly backups. Check to make sure that they do. You should also verify what is being backed up - your website consists of files and folders, as well as one or more databases and your email accounts.

(Websites hosted by Stadia Studio are completely backed up nightly.)

Second, you should regularly (once a month) log into your hosting control panel and initiate a full backup that you'll save to your local computer. This is so you have a complete copy of your website, that isn't too old, in the event something should happen with your hosting vendor or your hosting account.

If your site is relatively static, there is no need for you to maintain multiple archived versions. However, if your site is regularly changing, it would be beneficial to save your backup files each month and keep older month's archived. If a change is made that is later found to have caused an issue come kind, it may be possible to revert your website to a version from before the change was implemented.

High-traffic ecommerce or corporate sites may want to invest in additional automated backup and archival services which we are happy to discuss and provde as needed.

With these processes in place, you will be able to restore your website quickly if needed.