Hello, it's Rob. Now backing up your website is of extreme importance not only for website security, but it is just a no brainer, something that you have to do for all your websites no matter what, because even if there is some sort of mistake made on your website, then you can go back to a copy that you made yesterday, last week or last month, and then have your site restored to the way it was, and completely correcting that error. So as backing up is of immense importance. I suggest you do it many times. So every week, every month, every day, and keep all the backups or keep as many backups as you can. And I suggest you do it twice.
I suggest you do it once for your host and another time yourself. So if one backup fails, you have another option. So first of all, you should contact your host and ask what backups services they provide and where the backups are being stored. It is no good for your host to store backups on your server. That is a complete waste of time. And it is also a security vulnerability.
Because old versions of your websites, by definition will contain out of date software. So they are more easy to be hacked. They're more of a vulnerability and leaving them at the same place as your website is just asking for trouble. So for this reason, most hosts will backup off site off their own servers onto another sort of cloud service like Amazon s3, and that is what my host liquid web does, but you can't trust them. Your web host is not paid by you to offer security services. So if something goes wrong with your website, and they can't provide the backup Then you can't sue them.
So you have to take responsibility for the backups yourself as well. I would do this through a WordPress plugin, and I'll show you how to do that in another video. But when you arrange your own backups, again, backup the files and the databases to your own computer or to a cloud service such as Dropbox or drive, do not backup your website onto the server, your website resides on. That, again, is asking for trouble. So here is cPanel, which is a control panel, the backend of a website account. And this is an example of what I wouldn't do.
I wouldn't go into backup here. And here, it shows you that it would download a home directory backup into your home directory. That is the last thing you want to do. So this is why you have to get Get in touch with your hosts to organize a proper backup. And where it is backed up off site away from the server that is housing your site. So don't do it through cPanel.
Here is web host manager wh M. And this is the manager, my host has for all of the websites on my server. So I can, we can source up a backup configuration for all of the websites. So this could be for one website, it could be for 20 or 200 websites. Of course, remember, we've got to backup the database and files to things don't just backup the database don't just backup the files. But here you can see I backup daily. I backup weekly every Sunday, and I backup monthly every 15th of the month.
And as you can see the destination is Amazon EFS free. That is Amazon's cloud hosting service and that is backing up away from my website. is where I want it. And then we can do a restoration of any of the websites for any particular date and time. And we can do that all through the web host manager. So that's how you sought out backups and restore backups via the host, I would say that is not the best way to do it.
The best way to do it is yourself to sort out the backups, schedule the backups with a WordPress plug in to your own computer or even better at your own cloud storage service and restore from there if there's a problem, and I'll be showing you how to do that in the next few videos. My name is Rob Coburn. I'll see you again