WordPress Backup and Recovery Services

Hosting backups are useful, but they should not be your only line of defence. If your hosting account, server, or backup system is compromised, you may also lose access to those backups. We use independent off-site backups so your website can be recovered even when your hosting environment is unavailable.

The ideal backup frequency depends on how often your website changes. A brochure website may only need daily backups, while WooCommerce stores, membership websites, and other sites with frequent transactions may benefit from hourly or more frequent backups.

Yes. We can configure automated daily, hourly, or higher-frequency backups depending on your website and recovery requirements. Backups can include your WordPress files, database, media library, themes, plugins, and configuration files.

We can store backups independently from your web hosting environment using secure off-site storage such as Amazon S3, Google Cloud, or other suitable cloud storage providers. This provides an additional layer of protection if your hosting account or server is compromised.

Yes. We configure appropriate encryption and access controls for backup storage and transfer, helping protect website files, databases, customer information, and other sensitive data from unauthorized access.

Backup retention can be configured around your requirements, such as keeping daily backups for 30 days alongside longer-term weekly or monthly recovery points. We can recommend a retention strategy based on your website, data, and recovery requirements.

Yes. A backup is only useful if it can be restored successfully. We can perform backup integrity checks and test restorations in a staging environment to verify that your website files and database can be recovered when required.

Yes, where the backup structure allows it. We can restore individual files, database content, media, or other components when a complete website rollback is unnecessary. This can be useful when recovering from an accidental deletion or a failed update.

Yes. We can recover WooCommerce databases and website files from an appropriate recovery point. For busy stores, we can also design higher-frequency backup strategies to reduce the amount of transactional data that could be lost following an outage.

Yes. We can configure automatic pre-update backups so there is a known recovery point immediately before significant WordPress core, plugin, or theme changes. This makes it much easier to roll back a failed or incompatible update.

Recovery time depends on the size and complexity of the website, the type of failure, and the available backup infrastructure. For many straightforward incidents, restoration can be completed relatively quickly, while larger or more complex disaster recoveries may require additional investigation and testing.

Yes. Where a clean recovery point is available, we can restore the website from a known-good backup and then investigate and address the vulnerability that allowed the compromise. We can also combine backup recovery with malware removal and security hardening.

We use multiple recovery points and retention periods where appropriate, allowing us to identify an earlier clean backup rather than automatically restoring the most recent copy. Keeping backups isolated from the live website also helps protect recovery data from some types of attack.

Yes. Backup management can be incorporated into an ongoing WordPress maintenance service, including automated backups, storage monitoring, integrity checks, retention management, and recovery support when required.

Depending on the hosting environment and backup solution, we may need WordPress administrator access together with hosting, SFTP, SSH, or cloud-storage credentials. We only request the access required to configure and manage the backup system securely.