Making backups of your website

Keeping your own website up and running is, of course, extremely important, but what exactly do you do when things go wrong?Do you start over, try to fix the error or do you retrieve the backup? The latter can be done within seconds and can prevent crucial errors.In fact, if you always back up your hosting before you make changes you can easily restore everything.In this blog post we will discuss why you should take good care of backups of your website and any tips that come along with it.

Why back-ups are so important

People who have been in the ICT world for a long time probably already know why back-ups are so important. One of the most important reasons is that if your website is down because of a programming error you can restore it within seconds.It is therefore advisable to make a backup of your website before you make any changes to it.

This applies not only to adjustments but also for updates, if you use WordPress hosting for example, it is advisable to do so.It can happen that if you update a plug-in or theme it will no longer work, this can of course have several causes.It may be that the PHP version needs to be increased to make it work again, but sometimes it can happen that you can't restore your website at all.If you have made a backup of your website before these changes you can restore it in no time.

It is of course convenient to have a backup in your hosting, but it is also convenient if you have a local backup.The reason for this is that if malicious users have gotten into your control panel they can remove it.If you have a local backup they can not get to it and you can still restore it, it is of course important that you change your control panel password, we recommend using our password generator.

How to create a backup

If you want to make a backup at MijnHostingPartner you first need to log into your control panel.Then you press Space Statistics, here you will see a number of options for you, you click here on backup.After this a screen will appear in front of you, you don't have to change anything here, you can click on root folder.When this process is completed, you will find your backup file in here.

If you have any questions about making backups you can always check to see if there is a chat representative present.If there is no one on the chat, you can always send a ticket to our helpdesk.