How to Backup a Website

Depends on how often content changes. For a daily-publishing blog or an e-commerce site: daily database backup and weekly file backup. For a business site with rare changes: weekly is enough. Always take a manual backup before any major change (WordPress update, plugin install, theme change). BeoHosting automatically takes daily backups on all packages.

Yes, BeoHosting takes an automatic daily backup of your full hosting account (files, databases, email). Backups are stored on a separate server and available for restore via the customer panel or by contacting support. We still recommend having your own cloud backup (Google Drive, Dropbox) — redundancy is key, never rely on a single backup location.

UpdraftPlus is by far the best free WordPress backup plugin with 3+ million active installations. The free version offers: scheduled backups, restore from the admin panel, cloud storage (Google Drive, Dropbox, S3) and partial backups (database only, files only). The free version lacks: site cloning, migration and automatic pre-update backups.

A backup is roughly the same size as the site. An average WordPress site (500 MB - 2 GB) will have a backup of similar size. The database is usually much smaller (10-100 MB). To save space: UpdraftPlus compresses backup files, you can exclude cache directories, and limit the number of stored copies to 3-7. For off-site storage, Google Drive offers 15 GB free which is enough for most sites.

From UpdraftPlus: Settings → UpdraftPlus Backups → Existing Backups, find the desired backup and click "Restore". Choose components to restore (everything or just the database). From cPanel: Backup → Restore, upload the backup file. For a full cPanel backup, contact hosting support. Important: take a backup of the current state before restoring in case you want to roll back. On BeoHosting, support can do the restore for you free of charge.