Matt Mansfield says, “It’s 9 a.m. on a Tuesday and one of Tom’s regular customers just called to let him know that the website is down. Jumping into action, Tom calls his hosting company only to find out that his website database has become corrupted thanks to the new plugin he added last week. Their advice? Restore his site using the latest backup.

As he hangs up the phone, reality hits: he hasn’t backed up his company’s website for over eight months. He knew it had to have it done, but it just kept getting put off in the face of more urgent-seeming tasks.

Head in his hands, Tom reflects on the fact that that over those eight months, he’d added hundreds of products to his online store. He’d recorded more than 10,000 purchases and captured the details of 2,136 customers.

And it was all gone.

That’s right — things can go wrong with your website and if you don’t have a recent backup tucked safely away, incidents such as the one above can impact your business hard, maybe even irreparably”.

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