Hi Kat,
It should be all fine, whichever way you do it?
Which backup plugin crashed your whole site? Normally a backup plugin has no hooks into a site’s front-end; if running a backup makes your whole site disappear, then usually the real problem is that the web hosting company has far-too-low resource limits, and shuts off your site if you try to run a backup – the only real solution to that is a better web hosting company.
David
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kat08
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Hi David,
Thanks for your quick reply. I have just recovered my site after I suddenly lost access to the admin area. I was automatically being redirected to a 404 error page. This was NOT due to the Updraft plug in since Updraft was not installed when this happened. I really do not know what the cause was since I did not install anything new. I re-uploaded htaccess and wp-config files from a previous back up using Filezilla, but it did not solve the problem.
But because of this crash, I want to install a plug in to back up and easily restore my site. I only had a limited back up before done through the security plug in and had to delete WordPress and re-install from scratch. So if you say that Updraft and Better WP Security (which I am running for security) work well together, then I will go ahead and install Updraft.
Thanks a lot for your input!
Cheers,
Kat
P.S. Would you mind recommending a good web hosting company?
Hi Kat,
I don’t use Better WP Security myself, but UpdraftPlus has nearly a million downloads, and Better WP Security has 4 million (IIRC), so there must be a huge amount of overlap there (I don’t think we’ve ever had a report from someone who found a conflict).
UpdraftPlus has a sister company which is a web hosting company: http://www.simbahosting.co.uk.
Best wishes,
David
