Hosted.com Integrates Acronis Website Backups For Full File And Data Protection

Acronis website backup offers your website a safe, easy to use way to ensure that your entire website is ready to restore immediately and thus maintain the core of your online brand and business. Downtime, data breaches, and accidental errors can lead to lost income, damage to your online reputation, and potentially lower search engine rankings. That’s why Hosted.com® has partnered with Acronis, an industry-leading cyber protection provider, to give you automated daily backups and easy recovery for your site, visitor data, and content; and it’s built into our Web Hosting plans. This collaboration provides our clients with the best possible control, security, and stability from day one.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Website backups are essential for preserving your site’s structure and content, including files, databases, and settings, letting you revert to a previous working version in case of issues.
• Backups are these way to ensure safety net that keeps your online business running, even when things go wrong, saving you time, money, an thad customer trust.
• Failing to backup your website risks serious financial, SEO, and operational problems.
• Daily automated backups eliminate the risk of forgotten, incomplete, or outdated backups, meaning your data is always secure and up to date.
• Acronis integration upgrades Hosted.com®’s security features by combining backups, cPanel integration, malware scanning, and disaster recovery into a single solution.

Understanding Website Backups

A backup is a comprehensive snapshot of your website at a specific point in time, containing all the components needed for it to function and display as intended. This includes its files (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc.), databases, settings, themes, plugins, and media (images, videos, etc.). They are your safety net, keeping everything safe and allowing you to roll back your site to a previous working state in case anything does go wrong.

Not all backups are the same. Understanding the different types helps you choose the right method based on your needs. The three main ones are:

Full Website Backups

A full backup creates a complete copy of all the content on your site, including files, databases, settings, and other essential elements. This is the most comprehensive and is usually done at regular intervals, ideally on a daily basis.

• Pros: Easiest to restore and contains everything.
• Cons: Larger size, takes more time, and uses more disk storage space

Partial Site Backup

A partial backup allows you to backup specific parts of your site. For example, just your database, specific settings before an update, or a folder containing your latest file and media uploads. This is ideal to use when you want more precise control over what you want to be backed up and don’t need to restore the full website.

• Pros: Fast, resource-friendly, great for targeted recovery.
• Cons: Doesn’t cover and protect the entire website’s data.

Incremental Website Backup

An incremental backup captures only the changes made since the previous backup, thus saving time and disk space. However, the restoration process requires the last full backup plus all the subsequent incremental backups for a full restore.

• Pros: Highly efficient, quick backups, minimal server load.
• Cons: Restoration can be slower as it compiles changes from multiple snapshots

Why Website Backups Are Essential

Every website, no matter how small or secure, needs to have a regular backup and recovery system in place so it is always protected and can be restored quickly.

For online stores or those that publish new content often, they are essential in keeping your business up and running as normal. Without a backup, you’d be dealing with hours (if not days) of downtime, lost revenue, and probable customer mistrust.

Next, is vulnerability to cyberattacks that inject malware or ransomware that corrupt and steal data. This is especially problematic if your website collects and stores sensitive client information like personal details, credit card numbers, or user login information, as data loss could lead to legal consequences.

Whenever you make major changes, install new plugins, or update your core software, there is a risk of conflicts or errors. A recent backup allows you to experiment and test safely, knowing you can always revert to a stable version if there are any problems that may corrupt the functionality.

Lastly, let’s face it, mistakes happen. An accidental deletion, bad coding, or a botched configuration can make your site unusable. Backups provide a quick and easy way to undo these errors and get your website safely back online.

It’s also worth mentioning that when your website experiences extended downtime or displays broken links due to data loss, search engines flag it as unreliable. This can lead to a decline in rankings and visibility in Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs), ultimately resulting in a decrease in organic traffic.

In short, prevention is better than a cure. Backups provide a way to avoid catastrophe by letting you restore your site as quickly as possible while preserving SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and link integrity. They can also save you money. Emergency web development, forensic recovery services, and trying to restore your reputation can get very expensive, very quickly.

Acronis Website Backups For Data Integrity

Backups can be done manually, which involves using FTP (File Transfer Protocol) clients like Filezilla, control panel file managers, or command-line tools to download site files and export databases. This does give you full control over the process, but it is time-consuming, and the odds are that you might forget to do it from time to time. It’s also not exactly beginner-friendly.

There are third-party plugins and tools that can automate the job for you. However, their reliability can vary widely, depending on their quality, especially between free versions and paid premium ones.

With free versions, backups can be incomplete (missing databases or media files) or outdated due to limited scheduling options. There is a possibility of a lack of encryption or secure storage, as well as compatibility issues with new software versions.

Even paid options can fail in the background, making them vulnerable to the very crashes or breaches you’re trying to protect against.

With Hosted.com®, you get daily automatic backups with easy recovery in case the worst happens, included in all of our Web and WordPress Hosting plans courtesy of Acronis.

Acronis is a global leader in cyber protection, renowned for combining backup, recovery, and anti-malwareinto a single, intelligent platform.

With Acronis, backups are consistent and complete thanks to being automated daily without the risk of human error and covering all file types from coding to content.

In the event of a crash or attack, you can restore your site with just a few clicks, without spending hours trying to find the right files. Along with your entire website, you can restore specific files or folders (pages, layouts, content), individual databases, and even email configurations and mailboxes. All from the cPanel dashboard included in your Hosted.com® account.

Features of Hosted.com®’s Acronis Backup Integration

Acronis backups are more than just copies; they’re designed to provide speed, precision, and security. With its integration into Hosted.com®’s infrastructure, you get enterprise-level features without needing advanced technical skills to get the benefits.

Security And Scanning

In addition to automated backup and disaster recovery, what sets Acronis apart is its anti-ransomware and malware detection that identifies and stops harmful code before it impacts your copied website files.

By centrally scanning your backups, Acronis Cyber Protect helps detect and remove threats, ensuring you restore a clean, safe version every time.

These checks happen consistently in the background, so you get the peace of mind that comes with knowing your data is not only stored securely, but it’s also actively protected, with no setup or maintenance required.

Self-Recovery Tools

One of the most powerful aspects of Hosted.com®’s partnership with Acronis is the ability for you to manage your own restorations. Using a simple interface, you can restore an entire site with one click. Alternatively, if you don’t need the full recovery, it also lets you recover specific files or data that have been accidentally deleted or corrupted as needed.

This feature gives you full control, meaning you don’t have to wait for support, which reduces downtime, plus it saves server resources.

Control Panel Integration

The software is fully integrated with the cPanel control panel, so everything you need is in one place, and you don’t have to install a whole new system. Through your dashboard, you can access backup and restore settings, monitor their status, and start recoveries as soon as possible without having to study up on how to do it.

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