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Building a website can feel like a great achievement! As you focus on driving traffic to your site and promoting new content, don’t forget about other important aspects though. Maintaining current website backups is a crucial step to ensuring your site is available. In this post, we’ll talk about some of the things you can do to protect your content and make your life easier when managing your backups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What are website backups?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A website backup is basically just the content that you created to get your site online. It can be a bit more involved than that though. If you are using cPanel backups<\/a>, then you are also backing up your databases, email, FTP accounts, and much more. This is good because it can ensure that you can easily transfer your account to another hosting provider if you needed to (as an aside, we provide Free cPanel Account Transfers on all of our plans). It’s also a very convenient way to perform backups – just login to cPanel and generate a new backup and download it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Did you know? At ExiaHost, we provide free cPanel account transfers on all of our hosting plans<\/a>. Just let us know when you sign up and we’ll take care of the transfer for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What if I’m using something like WordPress?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Many Content Management Systems today offer easy ways to export or backup your site content. For example, WordPress has a multitude of plugins that fit this need. Something like UpdraftPlus<\/a> for instance has great functionality in its free tier for creating a website backup and storing it in a remote location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why do I need backups?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A current backup is important for your site for many reasons. Some of the most common are below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n