A $4 backup plugin saved a $9,000 month

A $4 backup plugin saved a $9,000 month

A small shop owner updated her site late one night, and the screen went blank. Years of product pages, gone-looking.

Luckily, three days earlier she had installed a free backup plugin. A backup is just a saved copy of your whole site, like a photograph of it frozen in time.

Here is the recovery:
— She opened the plugin's 'Restore' button.
— Picked the copy from the night before.
— Waited about six minutes.

The site came back exactly as it was. That month the store earned roughly $9,000, none of which she would have made if the site had stayed down.

Don't worry, restoring is reversible and you can't make things worse by trying.

In plain words: a backup is cheap insurance, and the day you need it, it's priceless.