Website backup and recovery: what gets backed up, how long it is kept, and whether it can actually be restored.
A backup is only worth what it can restore. Plenty of hosts promise "daily backups included", but that phrase says nothing about how long those backups are kept, whether they cover your database and email as well as your files, or whether you could actually roll your site back on a bad day.
These articles cover backups the way they matter in practice: retention versus frequency, the difference between one overwritten copy and 30 separate restore points, restoring to staging before you touch the live site, and where hosting backups stop and an independent off-site copy should start. The advice comes from real recoveries we have run on the 365i platform, not a features list.
Nearly every host promises "daily backups included", but that phrase tells you almost nothing about whether you could actually recover your site on a bad day. Here is what really gets backed up, why retention matters more than frequency, whether the backup can be restored, and how 365i's Timeline Backups handle files, databases and mailboxes without a plugin.
