How Often Should You Back Up Your Website?
Your backup frequency should reflect how often your website changes and how much work you can afford to lose.
Practical guides, security insights, backup strategies, and recovery advice for modern websites.
How long you keep backups matters as much as how often you take them. Here's how to think about retention windows.
Restoring the wrong backup, or restoring at the wrong time, can undo good work. Here's a checklist to run through first.
A backup is a file. A recovery plan is what you do with it when something actually goes wrong. Most sites are missing the second part.
HTTP security headers are small instructions to the browser that close off entire categories of attacks. Here's what the important ones do.
OWASP's research shapes how the web industry talks about security risk. Here's what it is and how site owners can use it.
A practical, non-technical walkthrough for getting an honest read on how exposed your website actually is.
Your backup frequency should reflect how often your website changes and how much work you can afford to lose.
How long you keep backups matters as much as how often you take them. Here's how to think about retention windows.
Restoring the wrong backup, or restoring at the wrong time, can undo good work. Here's a checklist to run through first.
HTTP security headers are small instructions to the browser that close off entire categories of attacks. Here's what the important ones do.
OWASP's research shapes how the web industry talks about security risk. Here's what it is and how site owners can use it.
A practical, non-technical walkthrough for getting an honest read on how exposed your website actually is.
Most website problems aren't discovered by the owner — they're discovered by a visitor. Monitoring changes that.
DNS is the part of your website's infrastructure most people never think about, until it's the reason something breaks.
Three DNS records that determine whether email sent from your domain is trusted, or lands in spam, or gets spoofed.
A practical checklist for making sure your website backups actually protect you when you need them.
A practical, non-technical checklist for reviewing your website's security on a recurring basis.
A step-by-step guide to building a simple, usable recovery plan before you need one.
Practical guidance for protecting websites, understanding changes, and recovering with confidence.