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Does Hostnali back up my website?

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Short answer

Yes, on web hosting, reseller hosting and corporate hosting: automated daily backups are included at no extra cost, with daily, weekly and monthly restore points. VPS and dedicated servers are not backed up by default; add backups at checkout, or run your own.

What’s backed up

ServiceBackups
Web, WordPress and cloud hostingDaily, automated, included
Reseller and master reseller hostingDaily, automated, included
Corporate hostingDaily, automated, included
VPS (international or Ugandan)Not included; add at checkout
Dedicated servers (VDS)Not included; add at checkout

On hosting plans the backup covers your files, databases and email. You can go back to one daily, one weekly and one monthly restore point.

How to get a file or site back

  • Ask our team: open a ticket or live chat, say what you need restored (a file, a database, the whole site) and from which restore point. We restore it for you.
  • Do it yourself: cPanel’s backup tools let you download a full copy of your account, or just a database, whenever you want.

Keep your own copy too

Our backups protect you if something goes wrong on the server or you delete something by mistake. For important sites, also keep a copy somewhere else (the 3-2-1 rule: 3 copies, on 2 kinds of storage, 1 off-site):

  • Download a full cPanel backup once a month, or before big changes.
  • On WordPress, a backup plugin can send copies to cloud storage.
  • For larger data, a storage box is cheap off-site space.

VPS and dedicated servers

A VPS or VDS is your own server, so backups are your choice. Add backups when you order, or set up your own (for example a nightly copy to a storage box). Take a snapshot before upgrades. See VPS hosting or, if you’d rather we handle it, managed VPS.

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