You know you’ll lose revenue from lost sales and potential leads. That is bad enough, however have you thought about the possibility of losing your site completely? The results are devastating.
Tragically, too many business owners trust their web host to perform backups. The cold hard reality is, backups are not part of a web hosts’ responsibilities. Most hosts backup for their benefit – not yours. Don’t take our word for it. Ask your web host. Unless explicitly stated, your web hosts’ contract with you is to simply provide you with the resources to deliver your web pages. Not to safeguard your files.
Bad Things Happen To Good Web Hosts Too
Technology is like any equipment. They fail and they don’t take sides. You can’t always blame the web host because, like natural disasters, sometimes there is little warning if at all. We know because it has happened to us many times over the years.
My name is Ken Chandler. My wife and I have businesses that are 100% online. I have learned the hard way the value in current backups for my websites. I also quickly realized that it’s vital to not keep backups on my computer. In the past, we have experienced various ways of melt down. Let me share some of them with you…
Web Server Hard Drive Failure
No problem we thought, they should be backed up and running in a few hours after everything is transferred to the new server. Sadly, the backups were outdated. All our recent hard work was gone. We not only had to spend valuable time and money re-adding content, we had to add manually re-setup customers who had ordered between the backup date and the time the server went down. Imagine if your last backup was a month ago and you had re-do a month’s work and customer accounts.
Unexpected Updates
Here’s another recent incident. One of our previous web host started to experience a lot of down time. One day, they were down as much as 8 hours! Pretty much a full day of revenue lost. When we asked the host, they said the system has automatically done a system scan and it just cannot be stopped. It has to run it’s course. WOW! We were completely dumbfounded.
Backups Saved Us
Good thing we were prepared this time. We had our own backups. Acting quickly, we grabbed it, set up a new account at another web host and got our sites up and running under the hour. The next day, the old web host issued a notice that they were just beginning to restore accounts. Didn’t matter to us anymore. We have been back in business hours before.
Current Backups Are Critical
Let me ask you a question and be honest about the answer. How old is your most recent backup? Do you even have a backup? We understand. Backups are a mind-numbingly boring yet crucial task. However, it can all be hands free for you if you…
Let Us Do The Grunt Work
We’re happy to be part of your emergency response team. When you sign up for our web site backup service, you can expect:
- Regular backups so you will have minimal amount of data loss. If your site is not a busy one, you may not experience any loss at all.
- Access to your backups anytime. Just let us know and we’ll have it ready for you to download.
- Multiple site backups. Backup as many sites you want.
- Web site restoration assistance. A lot of times people know how to grab backups but they don’t know what to do with that backup when something goes wrong. All you need to do is put us in touch with your host and we’ll work with them. We’ve even done partial restoration for clients when only part of their site experienced data loss as a result of mistakes. Most web hosts do not provide partial restoration services. This service alone is invaluable. We normally charge at least $65 per hour for any kind of technical work.
And all this will cost you a paltry sum of…
$5 per GB per month for weekly backups + $25 one time setup
or
$10 per GB per month for daily backups + $25 one time setup
Not Convinced You Need A Solid Backup Plan?
To keep your business running at full speed, you need to be able to promptly recover from digital disasters. Do you have a disaster recovery plan for your web site? A few dollars of prevention now can save you thousands in lost revenue later.
Look, web site backups are like insurance. It’s not something you want to buy but you know you have to. If you wait and your sites go down tomorrow, there is nothing we can do to help you. You will only have yourself to blame. Over the years we have advised many business owners online to backup. Every year, we repeat the warning in many different ways.
Some are smart and get signed up with us. Some we regret to say only wake up after suffering a loss. It pains us to see that and we don’t want you to be one of them.
This is not some smart copy or gimmick to get you on board. But the plain truth.