Hosting service backup or External Backup Service?

overcast · Jul 1, 2017

I have this WordPress blog and it is growing around 700MB so far. And in few more months this may cross the 1GB hard disk space. I am trying to find out if the third party backup service would be good fit for this. I have an option to choose Jetpack backup which is going to make use of the VaultPress. There is also Dropbox option for me. But I am thinking which is a good option, taking backup from the hosting service itself or the external?

If you own a WordPress blog, which type of backup you'd prefer?

LJSHost · Jul 1, 2017

For a site that small I'd just download it to my PC using the backup tools provided by your host.

Such a small amount of data does not justify a 3rd party backup solution imo.

leckley · Jul 1, 2017

overcast said:
I have this WordPress blog and it is growing around 700MB so far. And in few more months this may cross the 1GB hard disk space. I am trying to find out if the third party backup service would be good fit for this. I have an option to choose Jetpack backup which is going to make use of the VaultPress. There is also Dropbox option for me. But I am thinking which is a good option, taking backup from the hosting service itself or the external?

If you own a WordPress blog, which type of backup you'd prefer?

Do you know why your website is using so much disk space?

overcast · Jul 2, 2017

leckley said:
Do you know why your website is using so much disk space?

Images they are high in number. And with each post the amount of images and other media is increasing the disk space.

LJSHost said:
For a site that small I'd just download it to my PC using the backup tools provided by your host.

Such a small amount of data does not justify a 3rd party backup solution imo.

I don;t think 1GB and onwards would be low. I mean WordPress VaultPress doesn't think that is a very low space. I think the blog having incremental size increase does make the need for the external backup. That's how I see it.

LJSHost · Jul 2, 2017

Then just use Google drive and the 15GB free storage.

cybexhosting · Jul 3, 2017

Its always recommend to save backups on remote space or some backups systems like R1soft. Most of the hosting companies nowadays provide this option to store backup on a disaster recovery solution.

CaygriWEB · Jul 7, 2017

ever and forever external backup!

DeguWeb · Jul 8, 2017

Have a look at Amazon, it's cheap and there are many plugins which support it.

hostproton · Jul 13, 2017

Hello

We are using JetBackup. An incremental daily backup is done. However, if the user wishes to make a backup, it will be doubly better. Healing in health, was never bad.

CertaHosting · Aug 15, 2017

Why not use both you can never have to many back ups and you never know when you may need them. If one fails you have the other to fall back on

24x7serverman · Aug 16, 2017

I would suggest external backups are best but for safe side, you can take the backup of your contents at your local end too. You can take backup on hard-disk or USB drive. External backup has the more cost than backups on server.

Most of the hosting provider provides on-server backup. Those backups are also fine if you have just single site with limited data on server.

Soulwatcher · Aug 25, 2017

I have used Jetpack and VaultPress and it works extremely well and is well worth every penny. It makes daily offsite backups of your website and its a one click restore.. I made a mistake on my blog, and I clicked the one click restore and my website was restored in 15 minutes. Having said that, besides having Jetpack its also good to have your own offsite backups. Because if Jetpack ever fails you and you don't have a backup then you just lost your whole website. So I would make my own hard copy backup at least once a month and I would keep it on your PC.

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