We all know that one of the most important aspects of website security is backups. Many people will install a plethora of security related plugins yet somehow overlook the task of creating a backup.
Perhaps they aren’t sure how, think it is too complicated or simply feel it is not necessary. Whatever the reason, having a reliable backup of your website is vital and it’s really not difficult either.
If you would rather not go through the mundane process of doing it yourself you may want to consider outsourcing it to someone like Code Garage.
Code Garage is a service that provides daily backup and security monitoring of your WordPress sites. Starting at $10/mo for 2 sites, you’ll get a daily backup of your entire site with a 30 day backup history plus security and uptime monitoring. They offer several plans:
- $10/mo for 2 sites
- $25/mo for 5 sites
- $50/mo for 10 sites
- $100/mo for 25 sites
- $150/mo for 50 sites
All plans come with:
- 7 Day Free Trial
- Daily Backups
- 30 Day Backup History
- Hack Scanning
- Uptime Monitoring
There are no long term contracts as they employ a pay-as-you-go model meaning each month you pay for the coming month and can cancel at any time. If you do cancel you still have access for the remainder of the billing month.
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Nice idea. Seems a little pricey, since there are comparable plugins out there (unless the backups are stored off-site). But after I had a couple sites hacked this type of thing could definitely be worth the money.
Hi Peter. I suppose it could be looked at as somewhat pricey. Then again, if you look at alternative solutions (not including the freebies) their pricing is quite competitive. Other paid solutions (which I haven’t blogged about yet) would include VaultPress, CodeGuard, ManageWP, BackupPress, BackupBuddy plugin by PluginBuddy.
Keep in mind that monitoring is after-the-fact. That is, by the time monitoring tells you something is wrong… you’ve been hacked.
Prevention is far more important than, ooops, I’ve been hacked.
Hi D.K. That’s a very important distinction. Thanks for pointing it out.
DK – you’re right, prevention *is* more important than monitoring.
We do everything we can to make sure our customers’ sites are secure – scanning for vulnerabilities and problems along with malicious code (note: We don’t do much in the way of scanning the frontend of your site to see if there are problems there – we scan your backups for malicious code to watch for suspicious activity).
The reality is that there’s a fine balance to be achieved between prevention and having an easy to use website. For most people, the ease of use expected from WordPress, coupled with the money they’ve got to spend on hosting means they *are* going to be vulnerable to getting hacked at some point. When that happens, we do our best to be there, often before the site has even started to show outward signs of a hack (Google warnings, SEO loss, etc).
Anyway – I dont mean to hijack the comments here. Yes, prevention is important – but for most sites, its not enough.
Thanks for the writeup, Len! I appreciate it greatly.
Just to add to the post a bit – technically our core service is backup and scanning, but the reality is that most people want someone on their side when disaster strikes (and you’d be surprised at how often disaster strikes). We do everything we can to help you out of a pinch if your site gets hacked, your server goes down, or even if you just break something.
Thanks for chiming in and sharing your thoughts Peter.