Do I need a backup?
Most of the hosting providers will offer to you different types of backups plans, and as you can imagine none of them will be for free, so, if you have the money to invest in backup, go ahead and move forward, having a backup of your website is nowadays mandatory, you don’t want to lose hours of your work in the blink of an eye to a Hard Disk failure of some kind of hacking into your website.
DIY Backup
Those of you who prefer to do backups by yourself are more than welcome to the DIY WordPress backup club, take a look at the following articles to learn how you can do backups 100% manual and totally customizable, choose what, when and how.
Keep full control of one of the most crucial duties of any web master.