Do this or risk of losing everything :(

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This has happened to one of my sites. I have lost all the information, all the content. The website was no longer existent. I had to start again from scratch.

Every now and again, hosting companies mess up, and you can lose your wordpress websites(the content, everything).

In order to avoid this, I would advise you to download this free plugin(no opt in required) and install it on your wordpress theme.


Good luck!
#search engine optimization #losing #risk
  • Its always a good idea tto backup, but your going to need to backup more then just the database, you need to backup all of your files as well.

    I'll do a database dump, then I will use FTP to download the entire html directory on the server.

    In fact, I did 2 dumps of the database, and downloaded the entire html directory last night.
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    • Wish this thread was around sooner, just happened to one of my sites. I'm so rattled.

      So stupid..spent a whole day on it yesterday actually.

      Is there any way how to re find our content or something?
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  • Seriously why would you not back up your files? :/ I make all my pages on my pc before I upload them and just keep the same file structure on my pc as well as on my web server. I suppose thats another pluss of having a bespoke website instead of relying on crappy word press.
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    • well that's a stupid question to ask, if I knew I would of done it in the first place.
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    • when you start getting thousands of pages, you will understand why people use a content management system
  • Wow, I'm sorry to hear that. Which hosting company were you hosted with?
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    • Hostgator. They have a great team, but they couldn't do anything .Luckily I had all my posts saved on my computer, pictures and everything else. So it wasn't that hard to do it all over again. Just time consuming, but some people don't save up their information on the computer, which makes it very hard to start again.
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  • Hi mince001, I am talking to HostGator live chat right now. They say they run automated weekly backups and you can restore your back up for a charge of $15.
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    • When I have asked them, they did not offer this
      It's all fine now though. I have reconstructed the site

      Install the plugin though. Don't risk it
  • It is a good idea to have 2 backups always.
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    Most times you can recover your content from the Google cache, If you act as soon as you lose the site.

    Still the cache isn't a replacement for backing up a site.

    Just saying,



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    Do this or risk of losing everything :(

    This has happened to one of my sites. I have lost all the information, all the content. The website was no longer existent. I had to start again from scratch. Every now and again, hosting companies mess up, and you can lose your wordpress websites(the content, everything).