When choosing a backup solution the real question is not "which has more features" but "which one actually works on the bad day". Below we compare four approaches honestly — including where we fall short.
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This compares categories of method rather than individual products. Any given plugin's feature list can change tomorrow; the differences between approaches are structural and persist.
✓ usually available · ~ varies or limited · ✕ usually absent. "Varies" columns differ by provider or paid tier.
None is universally bad; what matters is knowing where each one breaks.
Good: free and requires no setup. Breaks when: the backup usually lives on the same infrastructure as your site, so losing the server or the account loses it too. Retention is also typically short.
Good: quick to install and often enough for a single site. Breaks when: if the site goes down the plugin goes with it; it does not cover email, does not verify restorability, and cannot manage many sites centrally.
Good: full control and no vendor lock-in. Breaks when: consistency. It gets skipped in a busy period and cannot be taken retroactively; the age of your last backup defines the size of the loss.
Good: automatic, independent of your site, includes email, verified, and manageable across many sites from one panel. Limit: it is a paid service and requires installing a module on your server.
Your data goes straight to your own cloud (zero-server-storage). We are not a storage provider, so you do not buy gigabytes from us and your data does not sit with us.
Alongside files and databases, IMAP mailboxes are backed up and can be written back. Most alternatives do not cover this.
S3 Object Lock (WORM) lets you make a backup unmodifiable. Even ransomware inside your system cannot delete that copy.
Archives use standard formats: zip for files, an SQL dump for the database, .eml for messages. Your backups stay readable even if you leave us.
It may seem odd for us to write this, but a service bought on the wrong expectation helps nobody:
• Your site does not run PHP — the module needs PHP 7.0+. It is not suitable for purely static sites, Node.js or Python applications.
• You use a database other than MySQL — PostgreSQL, MongoDB and SQL Server are not supported.
• You have a single very small brochure site — a free plugin may well be enough, and we will say so.
• You are looking to back up a computer or phone — we only back up assets on a web server.
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