#appbackup&restore

Hosting is a service which enables your website to get viewed and has its own presence on the internet, for the existence of your website two things are important one is the domain name & other is the host. This is a place owned by you, where anyone can find your website and blogs.

You can perform WordPress hosting in two ways either by using wordpress.com or wordpress.org:

wordpress.com- Your site will be hosted by WordPress.  You will then get a sub-domain website.  You can host your website under wordpress.com without any cost. But, you would come across a drawback, that you will not get access to all the features of WordPress. Ads may be displayed frequently on your blog.

wordpress.org. - First, you have to choose your web hosting service like BlueHost, DreamHost or SiteGround and register your domain name with its server. You can modify your blog as per your needs.

What are the advantages of WP hosting?

o   Resource utilization becomes more efficient.

o   The configuration of server are more precise.

o   The server remains secured.

o   WordPress takes the responsibility of all the issues faced by you and also try to solve it.

o   The installation process is very easy.

o   Easily available at an affordable price.

What all benefits you get by Managed WP hosting?

There are various advantages of managed WP hosting. These are:

Speed: WordPress has a phenomenal speed. Pages are loaded within seconds.

Security: Managed WP hosting is highly secure because of the secure protocols that are used in it.

Server:  The WP hosting team will make sure that you are using the latest server. They will ensure that your site is working efficiently.

Support: WordPress experts shall ensure that you are not facing any kind of problem.

Resource optimization: When your site is sharing few resources with other sites, resource utilization becomes better.

What are the points to be considered while choosing a hosting plan?

o   Monthly budget: Keep in mind what is the monthly budget that you are planning on your site.

o   Technical support & security:  Make sure that your hosting plan provides you with great technical support. It should have the feature of regular malware scans, daily backups, and easy restoration.

o   Migration: It should easily relocate your data and files, even the entire website at any point you wish.

o   Threat detection: It should detect the threats well and take necessary steps for avoiding the threat so that your data remains safe.

o   Daily traffic:  Observe the daily traffic on your site. You will get an idea what is the status of your website.

o   Expected traffic: How much traffic do you expect?  Work accordingly. Try updating your products and services and also the ad that you publish

WordPress is one of the most popular CMS ( Content Management System ) that is used for blogging There is a wide variety of themes and plugins that are provided by WordPress. These themes make the whole designing process so simple that anyone can do.

Wrapping Words

We all need a software plugin to take care of all our backup data efficiently, keep them safe, helps us with easy installation and restoration. Sometimes installing new plugins, themes or updating them creates conflict which results in website crashing. And there is also a huge chance of getting hacked or attacked. That is why you cannot just go for any backup plugin, therefore finding a good app backup & restore plugin is important.

 Although your hosting company provides you backup and restore services, but depending on them is not advisable as they provide you limited features and they may not take backup of the entire site. A good backup plugin provides you some great features which makes your data secure and safe, allowing you to recover from data loses or crashing of the whole website. These features are data backup, automatic and manual backup services, management of data, data security, maintenance and threat protection.

Having the option of both manual and automatic backup allows you to customize your backup related task on a daily & weekly basis. With the increasing complaints of cyber crimes, some plugins offers the feature of data security and threat protection which helps in preventing your website from indecent software and also helps you to ensure the safety of your data during server crashes, storage issues or from incompatibles themes and plugins.

 Your backup data is stored in an encrypted format so that no one could steal your content or tamper them in any way. Since it is easy to hack a backup file with no protection. They also store your data in multiple destinations, letting you have multiple copies of your backed up data stored in different locations. In this way you can ensure that your data is secured.

Now comes the restoration feature, which is as important as that of creating backups. Restoration can be complete restore or you can restore your files in fragments, by restoring some lost and damaged files or modules of code. The method of restoring in fragments is fast and do not affect your website’s performance, as you are changing only the damaged files instead of complete restoration.

Some points to note, a backup plugin should be capable enough to give you overall backup instead of creating backups of only databases and wp configuration files. Your backup files must include every file which you have ever used in your website i.e. images, texts and videos along with your DB. It should also have an easy and friendly interface. So that you don’t have to search for anything, instead your files and data should be easily managed from single page.

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