Your website feels safe with your host or free plugin taking daily backups.
And you would be right, if this was 2009
Today’s websites are 120% heavier, filled with builders, products, and videos. But your backups, are still using 15 year old processes.
These processes were great, but were not meant to deal with sites that easily get bigger than a flash drive from 2009.
Resulting in a lot of failed backups
But that's still not the worst part.
Yup, we even tested it!
The worst part of a failed backup, other than the lack of one, is that these plugins don't even inform you if a backup fails.
You can go on for months without realising that you’re relying on a
failed or a corrupt backup.
Updraft plus backups 4KB out of a 4GB site and
calls it a successful backup...
And your user experience is taking the hit
Even if the backups don't fail (luckily), your website is definitely slowing down.
This is because these backups are saved on the same server as your site, where both compete for resources and your site always loses.
Here’s a Bluehost server showing huge spike during backups.
We tested it on a $6k hosting platform, Pantheon. And ran a backup for a 100GB site.
- UpdraftPlus – failed after 30 minutes
- BlogVault – Backed up in 70 minutes
We spent $6,600 just to test this..
This happens because your website and your backup plugin are in a constant tug of war, fighting for server bandwidth.
This struggle for server resources causes timeouts and incomplete backups,
even if your site is around 400-500MB.
But, let's not be so pessimistic.
Let's say you do have a good backup...
To test this, we tried restoring a 1GB backup on cPanel. Which, it also failed at...
And even when it worked, it took plugins like Jetpack
36 hours to restore a 1.2GB site
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