Author: Johnny Akers

You wouldn’t spend a lot of money on a car or your home and then not get insurance to protect it. Believe it or not, the same logic applies to your WordPress website. You don’t want to spend time and resources creating the perfect site, only to leave it unprotected. Backing up your WordPress site is one of the best ways to prevent losing all the data you’ve stored there. It also saves you from having you build your site from scratch in case something does go wrong. Server crashes, hacks or faulty add-ons can happen without warning, and they can erase your entire site. That’s a scary feeling, but if you’ve backed up your site, then there’s an easy fix. Read on to learn everything you need to know about how to backup WordPress, and why doing so is important for protecting your site. As a side-note, most web hosting companies off automatic backups of your files, some even do it daily. So our first suggestion is to make sure you’re using a good web hosting provider. Check the features that came with your hosting plan, and if needed, start looking for a new website host. Finding a great web host isn’t as difficult as you might think. You’ll find enough bloggers that have already done the hard work for you, so all you need to do, is...