by Andrea Howey | Nov 30, 2022 | UpdraftPlus News
Customers of GoDaddy’s Managed WordPress hosting may have noticed that UpdraftPlus has been blocklisted for the past few months. UpdraftPlus was blocklisted because the specifics of the GoDaddy configuration meant backups were consuming large amounts of server...
by Shane Gurney | Aug 30, 2022 | UpdraftPlus News
On Friday 26 August, Gilo Varghese, founder of Flying Proxy, a CDN, tweeted the following allegation about WP Optimize: https://twitter.com/GijoVarghese_/status/1563097754322501632 . We were not contacted directly but learned of it a few days later when we were asked...
by Team Updraft | Mar 31, 2022 | UpdraftPlus News
UpdraftPlus is happy to celebrate World Backup Day with everyone today! With millions of users of UpdraftPlus all over the world, we are continually supporting and developing our WordPress backup plugin to help keep your WordPress site safe and secure. With hacking...
by Team Updraft | Apr 15, 2021 | UpdraftPlus News
A personal reflection on remote working by our marketing manager, Wayne Mullins in the UK. It has been well over a year now since we all first heard the term ‘Covid-19’ and the world underwent a massive fundamental change to the way we work and live that no one could...
by Team Updraft | Sep 3, 2020 | UpdraftPlus News
We are excited to announce we’ve sold our MetaSlider business to Extendify. Kevin, the lead developer who’s helped build MetaSlider to what it is today, is moving with the plugin and continuing to work on it with the new owners. You can find more info on...
by Team Updraft | Sep 3, 2020 | UpdraftPlus News, UpdraftPlus Releases
The latest updates for UpdraftPlus 1.16.28 have now been released. This latest version comes with two main new features and several tweaks and fixes. The first new feature we are releasing with UpdraftPlus 1.16.28 is that users can now back up and restore MySQL and...
by Team Updraft | Aug 12, 2020 | UpdraftPlus News
Thanks to your support, UpdraftPlus has just reached the amazing milestone of 3,000,000 active installs. The UpdraftPlus office is in Wales, UK which has a population of 3 million – which means there’s a site actively using us for every person in this nation....
by Naomi Miles | Apr 10, 2020 | UpdraftPlus News
It feels like the whole world is turned upside down. Everybody and everything has been affected by the global pandemic. Even those who avoid exposure to the dreaded virus have their businesses exposed to a new, unknown environment of economic uncertainty. This is an...
by Team Updraft | May 15, 2019 | UpdraftPlus News
A website’s security, continued success and even its very existence is of fundamental importance for a site owner. What happens when you need to restore a site due to damage that can be caused by any number of factors, but then discover the data you thought was being...
by Wayne Mullins | Dec 20, 2018 | UpdraftPlus News
A huge thank you to all our users – you’ve given us reason to be jolly by helping us reach 2 million active installs this morning! We’re thrilled at reaching this milestone. All across the globe, 2,000,000 WordPress sites are now trusting UpdraftPlus...