How much would it cost you to lose your business or personal data?
You don't want to know. And yet it's a very real risk - one that affects individuals and professionals every day, often through negligence, forgetfulness or a false sense of security.
To mark the World Backup Day, celebrated each year on 31 March, LRob, your web host specialising in WordPress, The best practices, practical solutions and pitfalls to avoid for never lose valuable data again.
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What is World Safeguarding Day?
A useful reminder... before it's too late
As the Wikipedia :
The idea was born on Reddit, when a user recounted losing his hard drive... and regretted not having been better informed about back-ups. Since 2011, this day has been encouraging Internet users to make a simple commitment: back up their data regularly.
Every 31 March, companies and the tech media get together to raise awareness of the importance of back-ups. Podcasts, articles, posts on social networks. The aim is clear: avoid disaster before 1 April, and that's no joke.
🏢 For businesses: the winning combo: NAS + Cloud
If you're a company with critical data (customers, projects, HR documents, accounts, etc.), it's a good idea to keep an eye on it. essential to organise your data and back-ups.
💾 Method 1: use a NAS
A NAS (Network Attached Storage) allows you to store your sensitive files locally, with secure access for your teams. Even better: you can use it to back up your LRob web hosting., provided you have a Fixed IP provided by your ISP. We'll talk more about this in the next chapter.
🛑 But be careful: a NAS is not a backup.
And no, not even with RAID, which provides redundancy in the event of disk failure. Why not? Because RAID protects against hardware failure only up to a certain level, and not against accidental deletion, ransomware or fire.
You therefore need to replicate the NAS on a secure online service (Cloud). For example :
- Cloud S3 compatible
➜ Prices vary greatly depending on the offer - Pulseheberg Storage Cloud
➜ From 6/month for 250 GB
➜ Compatible with all professional NAS on the market... And Plesk hosting!
➜ LRob can assist you with the set-up.
☁️ Method 2: Collaborative working via Nextcloud managed by LRob
Do you work in a team, manage shared projects or want to centralise your documents? You don't want to be caught unprepared when you're on the move, and you don't want to need a VPN or any other time-consuming configuration.
Then Nextcloud is just the thing for you!
Much more economical than Microsoft and Google solutions for large teams, the free and open-source solution could be just the thing for you as well as giving you back sovereignty over your data. LRob adopted it in 2017 and we wouldn't change a thing for the world!
The optics are interesting: Files are stored on each computer connected to Nextcloud and on the server. Smartphones (Android and iOS) can selectively sync any file. This makes it easy to share and synchronise files within the team, and doesn't stop you working if you lose your internet connection. It can also create new workflows such as the sharing password databases with KeePass.
LRob offers managed Nextcloud hosting, including :
- Regular updates
- Technical support
- Secure environment
- Automatic outsourced back-ups
This makes Nextcloud your the nerve centre of collaboration, while remaining compatible with the same backup solutions as our WordPress hosting packages.
And thanks to LRob, you can also back up all your Nextcloud data on your NAS or external hosting simply by FTP.
💾 Backups of your web hosting at LRob: automatic, outsourced, intelligent
Plesk + LRob = peace of mind
Good news: if your web hosting or your Nextcloud instance is at LRob, You're already well protected, and there are a number of simple and affordable extras you can put in place!
LRob carries out host backups for you :
- Automatic & outsourced daily back-ups
- Retention over 1 year
- Catering on demand
In other words, you have a first level of security for your data, without even thinking about it.
But that's not all: thanks to our Plesk interface, you can schedule your own backups so that all your data is backed up automatically, to outsourced (i.e. away from the main server), incremental (we only save what has changed each day) to a simple server. Secure FTP. Everything can be easily restored from your LRob control panel or to another Plesk hosting.
In this way, you are complying with the first safety recommendations in terms of backup.
The FTP server used for the backup can be a NAS on your premises ! So you can maximise the sovereignty of your data.
No NAS? Choose a VPS Storage Cloud at Pulseheberg
➜ From 6/month for 250GB
➜ LRob can configure the backup in less than an hour's labour
✅ To sum up: your next steps
This is the method that has worked perfectly for us for almost 10 years:
- Centralise your collaborative work with Nextcloud Managed
- Set up a local NAS for your business data or an external cloud (S3 or Pulseheberg)
- Automatically back up your website and Nextcloud with Plesk
We hope you find it inspiring.
🛡️ Make the right choice now, not after data loss
Don't be the person who says “I should have...”.”
Take advantage of this World Safeguarding Day to take stock and take shelter definitively.
At LRob, we're here to support you - whether you're a freelancer, SME or large organisation. Contact us, we'll take care of the rest. 🙌
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