Backups

Backups are your insurance: with them you can restore a site after a mistake, a failed update or data loss.

Where: service → “Backups” section.

What to do:

• Create a backup before risky actions (CMS update, code edits, PHP version change).
• Download important backups to yourself — so the data doesn't depend on one place.

What's in a backup: usually site files; databases are best also exported as a dump (in “Databases”/phpMyAdmin).

Good habits:

• Regularity: a backup before every major change.
• Several copies at different points in time.
• Verify the backup works (at least that the archive downloads and opens).

Important: terminating a service deletes everything with no recovery, and staging “Go Live” automatically backs up production before replacing it. But keep the primary responsibility for data backups with yourself.