by udadmin | Aug 9, 2014 | UpdraftPlus advantages
Here’s a story from the IT press: Sony forgot to renew their domain name, sonyonline.net. Not only that, but the renewal and expiry reminders were going to an email address that nobody was reading. Oops. Eventual result: the domain name was suspended, and lots...
by udadmin | May 13, 2014 | UpdraftPlus advantages
One feature that has been requested fairly often is the ability to backup databases outside of WordPress. The use case here is usually one of the following: The developer is integrating WordPress with a second product, and wants to use a single backup solution to deal...
by udadmin | Apr 4, 2014 | UpdraftPlus advantages
We’re presently well advanced with work on a new Google Drive back-end for UpdraftPlus (both free and premium). Why is this needed? Firstly, our old one uses an API which Google are planning to deprecate in just over 12 months time. So, it needs doing before...
by udadmin | Mar 28, 2014 | UpdraftPlus advantages
OpenStack (www.openstack.org) is about “Open source software for building private and public clouds.” Instead of paying Amazon to use their cloud computing system, you can build your own. (So, this is more of a high-level developer interest than a casual...
by udadmin | Mar 12, 2014 | UpdraftPlus advantages
Following on from yesterday’s post (in which we announced that we were working on making it possible to restore backups created by other backup plugins)… our development version of UpdraftPlus (Premium) is capable of restoring backups created by the free...
by udadmin | Feb 21, 2014 | UpdraftPlus advantages
At long last… if you should happen to not be able to pay with your card via PayPal (e.g. you’re in a country where PayPal don’t accept card payments), or you just hate PayPal and don’t want to process a payment through them for any...
by udadmin | Dec 10, 2013 | UpdraftPlus advantages
We’re just putting the finishing touches to a new add-on that all UpdraftPlus Premium users will receive in the next release. This will be of interest to you if you use Rackspace Cloud Files, and manage websites for many users with backups in one Rackspace...
by udadmin | Nov 14, 2013 | UpdraftPlus advantages
UpdraftPlus now has a complete Russian translations – thanks to Илья Худолей (Ilya Khudoley) (ironman_c at icloud.com) and Igor Ocheretny (https://wpsells.com). All downloads of UpdraftPlus since yesterday have included it. This now brings to 8 the number of...
by udadmin | Nov 12, 2013 | UpdraftPlus advantages
When looking for a backup plugin, are you looking for restore functionality too? Some backup solutions have no restore capability: none, zilch, zip, nada. That means that when you get to actually needing your backups – i.e. the whole point of the plugin –...
by udadmin | Sep 28, 2013 | UpdraftPlus advantages
In case you’ve not seen it, the very useful rankwp.com deploys various metrics to automatically rank WordPress.Org plugins – all 28,000 of them! It’s a fantastic tool for sifting the wheat from the chaff. Right now, UpdraftPlus is on page one. Go to...