Daily Data Back-up

A backup of a site is a copy of its content, which is kept on some other server and may be restored if something happens. This option is very handy, given that you can never know if a script update won't fail or if you won't erase something accidentally - a file, a folder, a database entry, and so forth. If your website is backed up, it could be restored the way it was prior to when the problem appeared, so there will not be any damage, or at least it will be very little, depending upon the particular scenario. Keeping backups on your computer is not very feasible, because you'll have to do it at least once a day and you can still lose information in case your last backup is not recent enough. In this light, you will need to rely on your hosting company, so you need to double-check their policy on the backups, because some providers generate backups only once per week, that will do no good if something goes wrong with an Internet site which is being used and updated at all times, like an online store, for example.