How to Backup your Plug-In Profit Site

NOTE -these instructions apply to Host4Profit. If you have a different host these instructions will not apply to you.

It is important to make a regular backup of your Plug-In Profit Site, especially if you are making regular changes to it, or blogging on a regular basis.

How often you backup depends on how often you make changes to your website. If you are only making changes once every month or two, then it is perfectly acceptable to make a backup once a month or once every two months. However, if you are frequently making changes e.g. blogging a few times a week or adding new pages to your website regularly, then you will want to back up your site once every week or two.

Luckily making a backup is very quick and it is also very easy, even if you have never made any changes to your website before.

Here is what you need to do:

(1) Log into your Host4Profit WEBEPanel. You will find this at http://www.yourdomain/menu - that’s just the URL of your website with “/menu” on the end. You will need to use your username and password that you received by email from Host4Profit to log into the WEBEPanel. If you can’t find this, send an email to Host4Profit support.

(2) Once you have logged in you will see a menu screen. To make a backup of your site, just click on the “Website Backup Manager” icon.

(3) Next, select the “ZIP file format” and click on the “Create my website Backup” button. You will then be taken to a page with a link. Just click on that link to download the zip file to your computer.

(4) Once you have downloaded the backup on to your PC you should extract the files from it just to double check that it hasn't been corrupted during the download.

(5) That's it! You're done :-)

In addition to this, if you ever make any changes to your home page or anther page on your site, make a backup BEFORE doing this. If you screw up your site you will thank yourself that you have taken the time to backup!