WordPress is the most popular blogging platform out there, and for good reason. After all, it’s extremely easy to install, a breeze to configure, and totally customizable. But for all its advantages, there has always been one major pain involved with blogging with WordPress: it’s a nightmare to back up everything and restore it if your blog gets wiped out.
There are several great plugins for backing up your WordPress database, but there has never been an all-in-one solution for backing up and restoring your entire blog in once fell swoop. That is until now…
VaultPress is an easy-to-use, comprehensive backup solution from the makers of WordPress itself (so you know it’s reliable). This automated service works in the background keeping your entire blog backed up with up-to-the-minute snapshots of your WordPress installation. I’ve been using VaultPress for several months now, and when I log into my VaultPress control panel I see dozens of full backups (by date) waiting to be restored should something go wrong and take my blog down.
And when I say full backups, I mean it. VaultPress doesn’t just back up the database. It also backs up your theme files, plugins, blog settings, and every last one of your images. What could be better than a hands-off backup solution that backs up every part of your WordPress blog automatically? Better still, every time you write a new post, it is quickly added to the current backup file!
As of this writing the folks at VaultPress are still working on an automatic Restore function, but they assure us that it’s coming. In the meantime their excellent support team will guide you through the restore process, step by step.
If you’re serious about your WordPress blog, you need a serious backup solution. VaultPress is it. Click here for more details about VaultPress, including pricing and the latest news about the service.
About the author: Rick Rouse is the owner of RLROUSE.COM. He has also built and maintains dozens of WordPress-based blogs.