Backup with UpdraftPlus

Looking for a free and powerful backup tool for your WordPress website? Let me introduce to you UpdraftPlus. UpdraftPlus is a backup plugin for WordPress that simplifies backups and restorations of your website. As of writing, UpdraftPlus is the highest ranking, most trusted, and most popular backup plugin for WordPress with over 2 million active installations.

Site backup is as important as website security. Being proactive to certain attacks to your site is one of the top things to do to keep your website safe, and being proactive means keeping an updated backup of your site; and what better way to do it than to use UpdraftPlus.

In this review, we will show you the plugins features and what makes it stand out from its competition.

• Complete Backup Plugin
  The core plugin itself comes with all features that you will ever need from a backup plugin. From complete back ups to cloud storage to WordPress file and database restoration all done in one click.
• User friendly
  No technical skills needed to use and the interface itself is user friendly that new users will get a hang of it in a couple of minutes of use.
• Scheduled backups
  You can set schedules for your backups every 4, 8, or 12 hours, daily, weekly, or monthly so that even when you are away, your backup will keep an updated version of your website for you.
• Lite Version Available
  Feel like not spending much on your plugins? No need to worry, UpdraftPlus comes in a Lite Version that includes all the above mentioned features. Anyway, they are all you need in terms of a backup plugin.

But if you are a real power player in terms of website management, the above are very much limiting and almost as if it acts the same as other backup plugins. Here are more reasons to checkout their Premium and gold packages:

• Changing domains are easier with clone and migration. clone your website and transfer to your new domain name through the plugin.
• No Ads
• 24/7 Support from the UpdraftPlus support team
• Comes with an autoupdater for your WordPress blog to minimize conflicts of outdated WordPress core versus updated plugins and themes.
• Backups include non WordPress files as well
• Backup files are encrypted giving you the extra protection you need
• Though scheduled backups are present in the lite version, you can customize your scheduled backup in the premium version, set the exact time when your scheduled backup to run for a personalized backup process
• Password protect the plugin to avoid unwanted plugin usage
• Bug reporting is easy, in case of any
• You can restore the backup from any other WordPress backup plugins.
• You will get a 1GB of updraft vault where you can store the WordPress data. For gold users, you will get 50GB of the free space.