Even the safest systems in the world also have backups of their data. You never know when disaster will strike. An example is when your website faces a hacking threat and your website is hacked. With no backups, your website is gone forever.

One thing everybody needs to understand is that hosting companies does not have the responsibility of backing up your website. It is entirely up to you to ensure that your website backups are done. While good web hosts do backup sites, it is a courtesy only, and nothing is guaranteed.

Here are a few reasons you should backup your website regularly.

Websites are dynamic and keep on changing
It is a common practice to store the original website but forget to save any new changes that are made on the website. Within a week a website can change a lot, it is important that these changes are also saved on top of the original backup of the website.

Keeping your business running even when disaster strikes
Those that have business websites need to make sure that the backups are more regular. When a business site is hacked, make sure that the backup website can be uploaded fast and be back in business as usual.

It is the best way to protect the site against viruses
A website that has been corrupted will offer dead links to your users. After realising any malfunctioning, act by using your backup website to restore the dead links. This keeps the good reputation of your website or blog in tact.

A cheap way of restoring your website
Instead of having to contact your web designer to give you the site files again, or worse, rebuild your website from scratch; backups are there to offer a cheap solution. All it takes is one click and you are back online.

Furthermore, backups just give you peace of mind knowing that all your web content is secure no matter what happens.

Just like we like to back up our PC content, make it a habit to securely backup your websites too.

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