We continue to do this by\u2026<\/p>\n
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- Providing you with the tools and tech you need to run<\/strong> your business.<\/li>\n
- Pricing our hosting, plugins, tools, and support in an affordable manner, so you can grow<\/strong> your business.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
And today, I\u2019m excited to announce another hotly requested feature you can use to immediately improve your own sites and offer to your clients as an amazing premium service.<\/p>\n
Hourly<\/span> hosting backups for you, or your reseller clients!<\/h2>\n
That\u2019s right, enterprise grade, off-site, hourly backups, with 30 days of restore points for… wait for it…<\/p>\n
Only $5 a month!<\/strong><\/p>\n
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Hourly hosting backups have arrived at a low $5\/m.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n It should come as no surprise that hourly backups are hugely beneficial<\/a> for big sites that are always changing.<\/p>\n
After all, having them means you can rest easy knowing that if something goes terribly wrong, you are only ever 59 minutes at most away from a quick restore that fixes it.<\/p>\n
They are mission critical for big eCommerce sites, communities, news sites and, of course, have always cost an accordingly large amount to maintain (especially because they also need to be offsite in case of a catastrophic data center failure).<\/p>\n
That\u2019s when we had a thought\u2026 What if we could make hourly hosting backups more accessible and affordable for our members?<\/em><\/p>\n
Sky high margins for hosting resellers<\/h2>\n
Currently, hourly backups are only provided by a couple of other well-known hosts in our space, including the always excellent Kinsta.<\/p>\n
However, their price point is much higher… currently sitting at: $100\/m with 24 hours worth of data points.<\/a><\/p>\n
Now, I’m never unhappy to recommend Kinsta, but that’s a hard sell to your clients and an even harder sell for you to markup on.<\/p>\n
Whereas with our $5 backups, you can literally charge $25-50\/m<\/strong> and then point to Kinsta (or any other enterprise grade hourly backup service… which will be far, far more) and be offering them a bargain.<\/p>\n
Wait, how can we even afford such low pricing?<\/h2>\n
In short: Relentless, research-based, and innovative work.<\/p>\n
Also, this is one of those things that simply wouldn\u2019t have been possible 3-5 years ago, so we have a \u2018later mover\u2019 advantage.<\/p>\n
And, we\u2019re also making a bet here, we\u2019re hoping that this will both not cost us as much as it could (I won\u2019t go into too much detail as to how costs could overreach\u2026 bit of commercial secrecy there ;) and also that having this feature, at this price point, will persuade you to use our services and hosting for your white label reseller work.<\/p>\n
We want to be the host of hosts, we want you to have a great business, this is a carrot, we hope it\u2019s super tasty.<\/p>\n
Affordable, reliable, and pretty much indestructible (really!)<\/h2>\n
As well as being great value for resellers, our new hourly backups also \u201cwalk-the-walk\u201d leveraging the same \u201cdisaster-proof\u201d tech as our regular daily backups.<\/p>\n
Without going tooo much into the techy details (you can find more of those here on our hosting backups<\/a> page)\u2026 As well as on-site storage, our redundant AWS\/S3 backups are stored safely across multiple devices and facilities.<\/p>\n
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Rest easy knowing your sites and data are protected by our advanced backups system.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Basically this means that if our data centers are ever compromised (knock on wood!), your backups will still remain fully accessible.<\/p>\n
To put the icing on this hosting backups cake, they also use an efficient file system that allows you to create space-saving incremental backups with no load or downtime.<\/p>\n
Now available for all WPMU DEV Hosting plans<\/h2>\n
So you can literally have enterprise level backups on our entry level hosting plan and it won’t even damage your site’s performance.<\/p>\n
WPMU DEV Hosting users, if you\u2019re interested – just visit your Hub dashboard and navigate to Site<\/strong> > Hosting<\/strong> > Backups<\/strong>\u2026 Or, My Account<\/strong> > Add Ons.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
From here you can easily purchase and activate hourly backups in a couple of clicks.<\/p>\n
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Activating hourly backups couldn’t be easier!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n And yes, when we launch reseller automation your clients will be able to purchase and activate this feature at a price you set via The Hub Client<\/a> (and the same will be true for hosting plans, CDN, backup space and more…).<\/p>\n
So consider this the start of some even more amazing things to come to our hosting before the end of the year. We can\u2019t wait for you to experience it all!<\/p>\n
Not yet using our Hosting? Being late to the party is actually a good thing. Because our platform grows bigger and better everyday. You\u2019ll just wish you jumped on board earlier!<\/p>\n
Check out our affordable and powerful hosting plans here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
- Pricing our hosting, plugins, tools, and support in an affordable manner, so you can grow<\/strong> your business.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n