BackupYourSite is built around one principle: the backup system must keep working when your website doesn't.
No plugin, no agent, no script on your server. We connect over SSH from the outside and stream your site straight to offsite storage. Your site's performance is untouched — backups never compete with your visitors for PHP workers or memory. No SSH on your host? The free WordPress plugin covers that instead.
Pick the time that suits each site. The scheduler fires within a minute of it, retries a failed run automatically, and never lets two backups of the same site overlap.
Your full application folder and a complete MySQL dump, streamed over the SSH channel — nothing is ever written to your server's disk, so even a site with zero spare quota backs up.
Every archive is integrity-checked and every database dump must end with MySQL's own completion marker before the run counts as OK. We refuse to call a broken backup a backup.
Database credentials are
parsed from wp-config.php at run time — nothing to configure, and it keeps
working when you change hosts or passwords. Regenerable cache folders are excluded
automatically; wp-config.php itself is included, because a restore needs it.
Not just WordPress: Laravel, custom apps, legacy PHP — enter the DB credentials once and the same pipeline protects it. For custom apps we archive everything, because silently skipping an unknown folder is the one mistake a backup tool must not make.
Every stored backup is listed with its exact size and date, read from storage itself — so the list shows what can genuinely be restored, not what a log claims. Pick one, confirm, done.
Roll back just the database after a bad plugin update — far faster than re-sending the whole file tree — or restore everything after a compromise.
Archives are downloaded and verified before anything on your site is touched; a corrupt set is refused with the site unchanged. Restores are double-confirmed, run in the background with live progress, and logged permanently with who ran them.
No S3 buckets to create, no cloud bills to watch. Encrypted offsite storage is part of every plan — 1 GB on the free Trial, 25 GB to 500 GB on paid plans — fully isolated per customer.
SSH keys, passwords and database credentials are encrypted at rest and never shown back — the dashboard only ever tells you whether one is stored. Generate an ed25519 keypair in the console; we never get the ability to install anything on a server you haven't granted.
Old backups are pruned to your retention window only after a fully clean run. A night of failures can never delete your last good backup — the failure mode is more copies, never fewer.
One email each morning: every site, status, duration, sizes, and — crucially — any enabled site that didn't run at all, the silent failure most systems never surface.
Every backup run and every restore, permanently logged and filterable — what ran, when, how big, and who restored what.
On the Agency plan the entire console carries your brand name, your logo and your accent colour. Your clients see your backup service, powered quietly by us.
Add every client site to a single account instead of a different backup plugin per install — one place to see status, one place a junior dev checks before touching a site.
Whitelabel console + per-site retention makes "Site Backup & Recovery" a real line item on a client retainer, not an unbilled chore your team absorbs.
Retention and storage live on the agency account, not the client's server — so a backup history doesn't disappear the day a client leaves, and handoff is a deliberate export, not a scramble.
Read the full guide to white-label backup-as-a-service for agencies →
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