How Backups Protect Your Website from Data Loss

Every day, websites get hacked, destroyed by faulty updates, or accidentally deleted. Without a backup, months or years of work are lost in seconds.

Why Websites Disappear

The causes are varied, and none of them are as unlikely as you might think:

• Hacker attacks that delete or alter content
• Server failures at the hosting provider
• Faulty updates that break the site
• Accidental deletion by a user
• Malware that crept in unnoticed

Without a backup, there's often no way back in these cases. The website has to be rebuilt from scratch.

What a Backup Is

A backup is a safety copy of your entire website. This includes all files (texts, images, code) and the database (if applicable). In an emergency, the website can be restored from the backup. The difference between total loss and a brief interruption comes down to whether a current backup exists.

How Often Should Backups Be Created?

That depends on how often your website changes:

• Daily backups make sense when your website is regularly updated
• Weekly backups are sufficient for websites that rarely change
• Important: backups shouldn't only be stored on the same server but also at a second location (offsite backup). Otherwise, a server failure takes the backup with it.

What Many Don't Know

With most budget hosting providers, backups aren't automatically included. Or they're stored on the same server. This means: at the exact moment you need the backup, it's unavailable.

With WordPress websites, there's an additional risk: a faulty plugin update can make the entire site unusable. Without a backup, there's no easy way back.

What We Do Differently

At Bosnar, regular backups are included in every hosting package. Depending on the package, we create daily or weekly backups. In the Premium package, we also store backups at a second location.

If something goes wrong, we can restore your website quickly. No stress, no data loss.

Ask Your Hosting Provider These Four Questions

Call your current provider and ask:

• Are backups created automatically?
• How often?
• Where are they stored?
• How quickly can the website be restored?

If you can't get clear answers to these questions, it's time to act.