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In this video you'll learn how to automate backups of an entire WordPress site using third party services

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and plug ins while your hosting company may provide periodic backups for your sites.

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It's best not to rely on only one source of backup files.

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It's best to have redundancy or more than one backup in case something goes wrong.

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By the end of this lesson you'll have several ways to set up automatic backups and offsite storage of

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the files so that even with a catastrophic loss of your server files you'll be able to easily restore

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any site from your saved backups.

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Let's start by getting on the same page as it were the same website page.

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That is the same website dashboard that we've been working on inside of our logged in wordpress dashboard.

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I'm at my womb comer's store site.

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As you remember it's Greg Davis dot com slash MailChimp and I'm on the dashboard page here.

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The video here if you need to and get logged in at your own WordPress site.

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Now that were logged in let's go and open up that hardening WordPress article at Wordpress dot org again

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and let's just scroll down to a place I have marked in the document by highlighting some of the text.

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We talk about database backups here and this is what we're going to be talking about in this video and

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lesson database backups as well as file structure backups so the entire web site is backed up and ready

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to restore at any point.

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A sound backup strategy they say here could include keeping a set of regularly timed snapshots of your

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entire WordPress installation including WordPress core files and your database in a trusted location.

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So what that means is that you've got the database file and all the Wordpress core files the theme files

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that you're using the plug in files that you're using and the whole uploads directory.

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Basically your entire WordPress installation in a backup file in an external location separate from

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your website.

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It sounds a little complicated and it can be especially if you trying to do this manually on more than

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one Web site that you're managing.

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Luckily there's plugins and third party services that we can use to take care of this automatically.

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We were looking at I theme's security plug in in the last video and as you scroll down we mentioned

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they have a third party service called backup buddy.

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Now the themes backup buddy is a paid for service that is very excellent but there's a number of different

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free plugins available at the Wordpress repository that do a lot of the same things for free so those

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free plug ins are a good place to start.

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But here's a good graphic on the themes that come back up buddy web page that talks about what makes

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up a good WordPress backup strategy.

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First you have a full site backup the database and the files included.

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You set that up on a schedule to run backups automatically whether it's daily or weekly.

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You store those backups offsite so that if your entire website and hosting company go down or out of

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business you still have your offsite files and then you have the ability to restore or move those backups

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to a different server or to restore to the same server.

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If your web site happens to go down we've also talked about WPA myu dev dot org.

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The paid for premium plug in membership service that I'm a member of and one of their premium plug ins

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is called snapshot Pro.

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It does all the things that we need to do in terms of taking offsite and timed and scheduled backups

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and it is a premium plug in as a part of their membership service but just know that you can sign up

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for a free trial of WPA.

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You def get this snapshot pro plugin working and then you don't have to keep your membership.

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You can still keep the plugin you just don't get support and or updates.

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But I use snapshot Frot quite a bit for this very thing that we're talking about.

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However let's go and look at two free plug ins in the Wordpress repository that accomplish this in a

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great and efficient way.

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Updraft Plus is one of the most popular WordPress backup plugins in the repository.

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You can see looking down here it's got eight hundred thousand or more active installations.

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They do have a premium version of their service but every thing we need comes with the free service

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and updraft Plus is the plug in will be installing and configuring.

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In this lesson.

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Another one is called back WP up and it's another popular and longtime WordPress backup plug in more

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than half a million active installations and another one with a premium version.

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If you want to get back WPI up pro that has more features but like updraft plus the free version works

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for everything I'll be teaching in this lesson.

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So let's go into the dashboard of our live Web site and it looks like since I've been logged in for

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more than an hour I need to log back in with Cliff like we set up in the last video so I'm opening up

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my cell phone and I'm just pointing it at the screen here and all right.

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My phone has buzzed that should lug me right back in to the Web site right now that I'm logged back

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in.

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Follow long as I go to plug ins and the Add New button.

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I'm going to be looking for updraft plus

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am researching for the word updraft and there's the updraft plus WordPress backup plug in and I'll click

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Install now.

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Now the new installing button with its circular Arrows is there and then it gives me an activate button

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right in the ad plug in screen.

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So now that I've installed updraft Plus I can go down and look at its buttons here on the plugin screen

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I can hit the settings button but also under settings you've got the updrafts plus backups settings

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button right there updraft plus gives us a little message here.

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We do need to set up a few things inside the configuration screen and that's by hitting the settings

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tab the first thing we have is a files backup schedule and a database backup schedule I'm going to set

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to do these every week and I'm going to allow my external storage to keep a month's worth of backups

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at a time before it deletes the old ones.

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That's a good system so you don't build up too much data storage and then have to upgrade and pay for

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storage.

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So I'm going to keep four backups of a weekly nature both in the database and the files backup schedule.

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Now you can see there's a lot of different choices for remote storage here.

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The updraft plus vault is one that comes with their premium service and we're going to be setting up

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Dropbox if you'd like to follow along exactly how I do it in this video.

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But feel free if you're a member of any of these other services to go and use them for your third party

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storage.

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A couple of these are part of their premium service and they do Dropbox for free.

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Now I've clicked the dropbox icon and before I go any further I encourage you to open up another tab

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in your browser and either sign up for or log into your Dropbox account.

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Dropbox will give you two gigabytes of free storage before you need to upgrade.

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And it's plenty to keep track of.

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Web site backups.

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So back in my dashboard since I'm already logged into Dropbox it'll be easy to authenticate with Dropbox

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and now it says that all I have to do is save this page and I'm going to go ahead and include everything

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in the in the backup files and I'll go back down and you can set it to send you an e-mail once it makes

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its backup if you like.

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This is a good way to collect those emails and then use them as a part of a client report.

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If you're using Web site care plans that we'll talk about later in the course.

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So I'll just click Save changes and then as I went up here and after it saved my changes gives me a

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little updraft Plus notice I need to authenticate my Dropbox account so that up draft Plus can communicate

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with Dropbox and upload those backup files to my personal storage offsite.

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So since I'm already logged into Dropbox I can click allow right here and that's all there is to it.

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It gives me a report of my Dropbox account here and updraft Plus is set up now.

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It's scheduled itself to do a backup.

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But what we can do in order to test the settings and make sure everything is working right is let's

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make a backup manually.

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So it's saying include the database.

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Include the files in the backup.

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Yes.

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And then I want to send this backup to remote storage.

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So I'll just click back up now I can see a progress bar right down here and I hope you're following

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along on your own web site and I'll pause the video and started back up when my backup is complete.

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It looks like my latest log method says the backup apparently succeeded and is now complete.

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And if I go over to my Dropbox folder you'll see that I now have an apps folder I open that up.

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I have an updraft plus folder and inside that are some segments of my backup.

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If you look at each one of these by clicking in an open area and then looking at the top you can see

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that they're all different sizes and they all contain different parts of the backup that updraft Plus

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we'll use in case you need to restore one of your backups.

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Back inside the Wordpress dashboard you can go Under the existing backups tab shows that I have one

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now and you can see their backup date and the backup data it's in five different parts and there's actions

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that I can perform using this particular backup.

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I can delete it view the log but more importantly I can restore this backup back to my Web site.

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The last thing we'll do in this lesson is test the restoration process to make sure that it's working.

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So to test a backups restoration Let's go into our pages all pages and let's look at the thank you for

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confirming page that we had created in a past lesson.

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I'll just open that page and I'll just hit enter and say this is a site edit before restore.

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Just typing some words right here and updating this page.

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Now I know that if I restore the backup that was created before I made this edit and this line will

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disappear.

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And so here is what I'll do I'll just right click on the permalink here and I'll say Open link in New

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Tab and that way I'm looking at this.

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Thank you for confirming page on my live Web site.

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And here's the line.

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This line should disappear after we restore the backup from before I made that edit.

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So let's go back into our WordPress dashboard and let's go and restore the last backup.

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So we'll just go under settings go to updraft plus backups.

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And I know I need to look at my existing backups and I can say OK here's the date that I want to restore

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when I go over here and click restore and I can restore even any of the parts just the database the

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uploads etc..

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So when we'll do this test let's go ahead and just restore everything and then we'll check out make

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sure the website is still working.

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So a click restore right here and it looks like it's restoring the backup it's retrieving and preparing

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the backup files and processing.

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Now there's one more step now that it's done that gives me a little report and it says OK.

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So now I need to press restore again to precede or click restore and everything has begun.

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It gives me some final checks and a report here.

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And as I go back down I can see that it's done a lot of different things plug ins theme's uploads database

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etc. and at the bottom here does restore successful.

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And then you can return to updrafts plus or anywhere you like within the site.

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But if I just go back to my thank you page tab and refresh the page can see that this line disappears.

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Great I've restored the original site that we had backed up before.

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So anything that had been done after the backup is now gone including any kind of hacking or any kind

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of problem that had happened with the Web site.

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Now I know you might be thinking boy back in one of the chapters earlier in the course we went over

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site migrations moving sites from one server to the other and restoring sites with that all in one migration

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plug in.

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And so what's the difference.

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Well there's two main differences in the utilities that we're using for this backup system and they

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are that with these backup plug ins.

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Not only can you schedule backups to happen on a daily or or weekly basis.

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You can also save them on an offsite location you don't have to manually download them to your computer

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and save them on your client's behalf.

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In this lesson you learned how to create automated scheduled backups of an entire WordPress Web site

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including the database and file structure and you set it up so that the backup files are saved to an

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external location like Dropbox or another file storage service.

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Now you can have multiple redundant backup systems set up for each of your client web sites which adds

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tremendous value to your website care and maintenance services and makes it easy for you to restore

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a Web site from a previous backup in case of any problems in the next video.

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You'll learn how to set up your Wordpress Web sites using HTP S and S S L or secure sockets layer doing

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this and Krips the data sent between a web server and the user's browser hardening security even more

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and inspiring confidence to Web site users.

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It also allows your server to use the HTP to protocol which is another smart way to speed up your web

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sites