Announcing Solid Backups — NextGen: A cloud-first solution for fast, reliable backups and one-click restore

Solid Backups — NextGen, is a cloud-first solution for backing up WordPress sites using a high-performance approach. Because your daily backups are powered by and initiated from SolidWP servers instead of your website, Solid Backups — NextGen has minimal impact on your hosting servers’ resources. By only backing up new and changed files each day, backups take a fraction of the time and use far less space than other methods. The system stores your backups safely and securely in the cloud and, when the need arises, can be restored with a single click.

What Makes Solid Backups — NextGen a Game Changer?

The way WordPress backups are done is archaic. Most people responsible for managing WordPress sites handle backups in two ways: they rely on their hosting provider or they use a plugin.

Hosting providers typically do an acceptable job, but in many cases, the experience of getting to the backups, determining which backup to restore, and then actually restoring it can be lackluster or even cumbersome.

Before hosting providers began including backups in their standard offerings, plugins were the way to go. But plugins are prone to reliability problems and outright failures as they require the site to function in order to run, they drain the very server resources sites need in order to perform well, and they often dramatically increase the disk storage a site consumes. Moving plugin-based backups “offsite” requires connecting to 3rd-party cloud providers or downloading backup files and managing them manually, which leads to a mess.

Using a cloud-native, server-driven approach simplifies the entire process for site admins. It allows sites to be reliably backed up and for backups to be placed in the context of a timeline of activity related to your sites in Solid Central, which provides a simple place to handle all the critical management and maintenance tasks associated with keeping your sites up and running.

Who Benefits from Solid Backups — NextGen?

Solid Backups — NextGen is for anyone who manages, creates, or maintains WordPress sites:

• Freelancers who create and maintain sites for clients
• Agencies who manage hundreds or even thousands of sites
• Businesses & organizations that run their own sites

Existing customers who use Solid Backups will find this solution greatly simplifies the complexities of:

• ensuring that backups are running successfully on each of their sites without taxing server resources
• wrangling cloud storage, frequently across multiple providers
• restoring the right backup quickly and with minimal impact on site visitors

New customers will find the cloud-first approach, competitive pricing, and powerful management tools compelling — especially when managing multiple sites.

The solution will particularly appeal to people who understand that regardless of whether their hosting providers back their sites up, having a single place to manage, track, and access backups alongside other critical site maintenance work will save them time, hassle, and ultimately money.

Key Features You’ll Love

• Daily, incremental backups for sites built with WordPress. Backups are incremental in that subsequent to the initial complete backup, only new and/or changed files are backed up each day. Each daily backup contains the entire WordPress database.
• Cloud-first approach, with backups initiated from SolidWP cloud servers
• Engineered for speed and reliability, powered by SolidWP cloud servers rather than depending upon PHP code running on customers’ hosting servers
• One-click restores to provide best-in-class usability
• Centralized Management Dashboard featuring other powerful site management tools
• Activity Timeline shows backups available to restore/download in the context of useful information about site events
• Efficient, automatic versioning of files maximizes storage by eliminating the need to store multiple copies of files

Why Settle for Less?

Traditional backups can leave you in the lurch. Don’t rely solely on hosting providers or cumbersome plugins that can fail at critical moments. With Solid Backups — NextGen, you’ll gain the peace of mind that comes from having a robust, reliable, and easy-to-manage backup solution—all in one place.

Get ready to transform how you manage backups. Say hello to efficiency, speed, and confidence with Solid Backups — NextGen!

Are you ready to take control of your WordPress backups? Explore more about Solid Backups — NextGen today!