{"id":190,"date":"2010-07-28T19:01:45","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T19:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sgis-blog.co.uk\/?p=190"},"modified":"2014-07-24T12:39:52","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T12:39:52","slug":"backup-your-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgis.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/07\/backup-your-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Backup your Website!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Backing up your website is easy and only takes a few clicks, it will also save you hours if your hard work is ever lost or corrupted!<\/p>\n<p>We recommend backing up your work as often as possible, even as often as every time you make changes. We also offer an automatic daily backup service where we take backups for you every night for only \u00a311.99 per year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sgis.co.uk\/addons\/snapshot-backups.php\" class=\"btn btn-default\">Read more on our automated daily backup service<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Details of how to backup your site are found below. 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