Vaultpress: An Excellent Security, Protection, and Backup Services for WordPress

For those who have not heard of it, Vaultpress(built by Automattic) is a WordPress powered by a tool known as Jetpack. It offers real-time backup and security. If you have a WordPress site where you blog, you can use it to back up your posts, comments, and media files. Besides that, you get protected against malicious people like hackers, malware, and accidental damages.

 

Installation:

First, you have to open your WordPress site, then open the panel Add Plugins. Scroll until you find VaultPress. When you do, proceed to Install Now, and the process begins. After it completes, hit on the button Activate Plugin.

 

Watch out for an alert message prompting you to Register VaultPress. As requested, you will enter your key registration, if you've already signed up with it. However, if you're not, click to view the plans and pricing offered.

 

When you take the VaultPress subscription plan, it allows you to restore your site with ease quickly. For instance, if something malicious happens unexpectedly, all you need is to click a restore feature on your website.

 

Go to your dashboard, and head to backups. Choose your last restoration point, then "Restore button." You will get a list of choices such as uploads, contents of what you would like to get back. Select them all, and hit prepare a backup.

 

Lite plan offers you a restoration allowance of the past 30 days, while a Basic-plan and others provide you with a lifetime of restoration until your subscription expires.

Also, You Can Read The Importance of Backing Up a WordPress Website: A Guide to Using VaultPress

 

First Backup

After registration, your first backup should immediately start. Please note that it might take some extended time since it's your first backup. However, that also depends on the size of your site. Other subsequent ones should be faster. Since processing happens at the back of your system, your working won't get interrupted, and you can switch your browser with no effects.

How to backup WordPress using VaultPress

VaultPress is ultimately one of the best tools to offer backup to your WordPress site. It provides an automated daily backup of your website. For every change that occurs, WordPress alerts the device to do the necessary.

Importance of doing a regular backup

• You get peace of mind: Losing some essential data to malware or system crashing

can be such a nightmare. But when you know, you are protected from all that and

more substantial damage that can occur, you will work peacefully, and that's is

what we call peace of mind.

• Compatibility ease:

Not even compatibility issues can affect your system when you have a backup.

Unfortunately, you can find some WordPress plugins not being compatible with

the new version of WP.

• Security: If somehow hackers manage to access your site, with regular backup

your files and documents will still be safe.

• Ease of migration;

When you move to a new hosting account or change your URL, all you need is to

upload your website back up, and you are good to go.

 

In conclusion, the Vault plugin being a product of wordpress.com (Automattic), is well-managed, reliable, and working with it is such a breeze. Stay safe by regularly performing your back up. Start with a Lite plan for a monthly charge of only $5 or a yearly fee of $55. However, you can check other Vault plans, as discussed in the article.