Built by people who run websites for other people — and had to explain a failed restore in person more than once.
BackupYourSite comes out of running a digital agency: building and maintaining WordPress sites for clients, day to day. The recurring failure mode wasn't a lack of backup plugins — it was that plugin-based backups quietly stop working. A plugin update breaks compatibility, a host's PHP memory limit kills a large export mid-run, a cron job silently stops firing, and nobody finds out until the site is already down and the "backup" turns out to be three weeks old or corrupt. Explaining that to a client after the fact is a bad conversation to have more than once.
The fix we landed on was to stop running backups from the site at all. BackupYourSite connects out over SSH from the outside, so a backup never competes with the site's own PHP workers or memory, and a broken plugin or a bad update on the site can't take the backup down with it. Every archive is verified before it's counted as a success — a partial or corrupt backup is treated as a failed backup, not a backup.
Rajeev Gupta — founder. Background in algorithmic trading (EliteAlgo) and running a web development / digital marketing agency building and maintaining client WordPress sites, which is where the need for a backup system that doesn't depend on the site being healthy came from directly. LinkedIn →
BackupYourSite is a young product. We don't have published customer case studies or third-party review-platform ratings yet — we'd rather say that plainly than pad the page with claims we can't back up. What you can verify yourself: the product's own how it works page describes the exact backup and restore pipeline, and features lists what ships today, not a roadmap.
Questions about how backups, storage, or restores work — including anything about data handling — go to support@backupyoursite.com or the FAQ.