by Joe Miles | Mar 1, 2017 | UpdraftPlus advantages, WP Optimize
WP-Optimize 2.1.1 is now released. Amongst other improvements it features the ability to take a automatic backup with UpdraftPlus before an optimization. WP-Optimize has always recommended taking a backup before optimizing the database in case you ask it to clean out...
by Joe Miles | Feb 23, 2017 | updates, UpdraftPlus advantages, UpdraftPlus development news
Today we released a new version of UpdraftPlus Premium containing a feature for the backup of individual tables as opposed to the whole site database. Imagine you’re about to make an update to some products in WooCommerce on your online shop. Before you do this, you...
by udadmin | Aug 16, 2016 | updates, UpdraftPlus advantages, UpdraftPlus development news
In April, we announced significantly faster uploads for Dropbox users. Our next release has the same bonus for users of Rackspace Cloud Files. We have implemented new code that adapts the amount of data attempting to be uploaded in each chunk, in response to network...
by udadmin | May 3, 2016 | updates, UpdraftPlus advantages
In the latter part of 2015, Amazon introduced a new storage class option for their S3 storage cloud – “standard – infrequent access”; a storage class which can bring significant cost savings (as long as you can live with your data not be...
by Joe Miles | Apr 19, 2016 | UpdraftPlus advantages, UpdraftPlus growth
Thank you to all our users who’ve rated us 5*. We can announce today we’ve just passed 2000 reviews! At 4.9 out of 5 stars, you’ve made us the world’s highest rated backup plugin. This has helped make us more popular. The more popular we...
by udadmin | Apr 7, 2016 | UpdraftPlus advantages, UpdraftPlus development news
The next UpdraftPlus release has a bonus for Dropbox users – faster uploads. Until now, our Dropbox upload algorithm has used a flat upload rate. The new code instead responds to network conditions, and ramps up to send larger chunks as the the network proves...
by udadmin | Apr 1, 2016 | UpdraftCentral, UpdraftPlus advantages, UpdraftPlus development news
A new UpdraftPlus release was made a couple of days ago. This had the usual small tweaks and optimisations; plus one big addition that we’ve been working on for a long time – UpdraftCentral. UpdraftCentral is our new remote-control dashboard, allowing you...
by udadmin | Nov 17, 2015 | UpdraftPlus advantages
Support for Microsoft Azure (blob storage) is coming to UpdraftPlus Premium! Azure storage is basically Microsoft’s competitor product to Amazon S3 / Google Cloud Storage / Rackspace Cloud Files, for business/corporate storage (to be compared with Microsoft...
by udadmin | Oct 31, 2015 | UpdraftPlus advantages
PHP (the programming language that WordPress is written in) version 7 is not yet released, but it must be close – they’ve recently released the 6th release candidate. We’re already running and testing UpdraftPlus on it (that includes current releases...
by udadmin | Oct 21, 2015 | UpdraftPlus advantages
Google Cloud Storage support is coming to UpdraftPlus! There are a lot of cloud storage vendors out there. They can’t all survive, long-term. But there’s a few big brand names that you expect to hang around, regardless of what happens to the others. Google...
