There are many reasons to backup your WordPress blog and make sure you always have a copy of it in case something goes wrong. Your database might crash, you might accidentally delete some of your posts or files, and you might even need to roll back to an earlier version of your WordPress blog. It's a simple fact that computers fail all the time. A hard drive might crash out and many people don't realize that your website is simply sitting on a computer somewhere that has all the same problems as...

You should have heard that it's a very good idea to keep a backup of your website in case something goes wrong with it, it's worth it to make it part of your weekly routine. To spend a few seconds clicking that backup button instead of a few years trying to get back to where you were. But you might be confused about should you run a cPanel backup of your entire website or a WordPress backup just of your single blog.

The difference is that with a cPanel backup you're backing up the...

It doesn't make sense to backup your WordPress blog only to store that backup file on the same website. Because if you lose that website you're also going to lose that backup file. When it comes to backups it does pay to be paranoid, it does pay to assume that anything that can go wrong will. That way if everything does go wrong you can still get your website back. This is why as soon as you make a backup you should save it to your hard drive. But you should also save it to a remote location such...

I hope that you have heard of the concept of backing up your files, your website or even your WordPress blog. It's something that everyone needs to do but so few people do it. You need to backup your WordPress site because it's better safe than sorry, because you might get hacked and because you might need some kind of an old file or even to see how your WordPress site used to look.

You might have heard that saying, you're better safe than sorry. That means that it might not be fun...

You've finally decided that it's a good idea, in fact a great idea, to backup that WordPress blog. Now if anything goes wrong you have a copy somewhere at least you can put somewhere else. What features should you look for in a WordPress backup plugin? I've seen many plugins that overload you with features. Tell you it'll backup to S3, that it will backup to Rackspace, they add all kinds of fancy features. At the end of the day do you need all that fanciness or do you just need a backup plugin that...