WordPress Backup and Malware Removal with BlogVault

WordPress backup, firewall, and malware removal for your website are an important but also intimidating topic. You can use and set up a wide variety of services and plugins for this, or simply rely on an excellent provider and save time and money. Here’s how I do it with BlogVault.

Securing your website from loss, alteration and misuse is not a trivial task. With daily backups, a firewall, and a scanner that removes malware instantly and reliably, you can take care of your website’s content in a relaxed way.

I used to use an elaborate shell script for the backup and two plugins for security and virus protection. Overall, this solution was complex and had to be constantly improved. I have been sparing myself this stress for two years.

The all-round protection BlogVault

By chance, I came across the service of BlogVault. The BASIC plan mainly takes care of the backup of your website. Included with each plan is the management of your website.

It gets really interesting from the PLUS plan, there are also all security features such as malware removal and firewall.

	Basic	Plus	ADVANCED
WP Backup, Staging and Migration	Yes	Yes	Yes
Firewall, Malware, Login Protection	No	Yes	Yes
WordPress Management	Yes	Yes	Yes
Speed check	Yes	Yes	Yes
Uptime Monitoring	No	No	Yes
Team and Customers (White Label)	No	No	Yes
	$7.40/month	$12.40/month	$20.75/month

The prices are each for a WordPress website. If you have multiple websites, the prices will be significantly cheaper.

The WordPress backup service is currently only accessible in English. Even if you hardly speak English, this should not be a problem, most functions are self-explanatory and provided with a meaningful icon.

Installation

First, you need to create an account. You can test the complete service for 14 days free of charge. For this trial you do not need to specify any means of payment.

If you are not automatically directed to create your first website, click the green ADD NEW SITEbutton in the Sites menu.

WordPress Backup

The main component of BlogVault (Vault means vault) is the fully automated and daily WordPress backup of your entire WordPress website. All files, themes, plugins, uploads and the database are backed up.

In short: Your entire blog is backed up.

If you do not have any special requirements, the service will take care of the backup of the website without the need for any intervention on your part.

You can check the status, trigger the backup manually or view all backed up files and tables. A manual backup is simply stored on the day. In normal operation, however, you do not have to worry about anything.

WooCommerce Backup

Your WooCommerce website needs more than just daily backups. Especially if you have multiple orders a day, you want finer recovery options.

• Secure all orders, how and when they take place.
• Restore at any time with 365-day backup archives.
• 24×7 data backup with offsite storage.
• Custom table backups for WooCommerce stores.

You won’t get these WooCommerce backup features until you get the ADVANCEDplan.

Restore

The most important thing is probably to restore the backup in case of a problem. You can do this safely and completely via the Restore Sitebutton.

But that’s only one possibility. BlogVault offers a wealth of other options:

• Restore Site
• Migrate Website
• Upload to Dropbox
• Download WordPress Backup
• Restore individual files and tables

It is important to know: Your data is secure and encrypted with BlogVault. You have access to it at any time and can recover lost or corrupted data immediately. Also from an earlier date, as the old backups are being canceled.

Download and Cloud Storage

Your daily backups are safe with BlogVault. But if you want to save additional backups, you have two options.

You can copy your backup to your Dropbox account at any time by clicking on it.

But this does not happen automatically.

You can find the button for this under Sites > Your Blog > BACKUPS.

In the same menu you will also find the button Download Backup.

You can then save the ZIP file locally or back it up to Google Drive, OneDrive or iCloud.

Firewall and malware protection

The second important component of the protection package is the firewall and protection against malware and viruses.

Real-time protection against the latest threats is implemented with BlogVault’s smart firewall. The tool uses the collective intelligence from its network of websites to detect and block threats from hackers and bots in real time.

Instant & Guaranteed WordPress Malware Removal in Less Than 60 Seconds

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With BlogVault’s fully automated malware removal, you can clean your hacked website without having to wait days or hours. With one click, everything was done for me.

Exactly the following functions are listed:

• Automatic Malware Scan:Detects complex malware that other WordPress security plugins can’t detect.
• Automatic Malware Removal: The automatic and complete malware removal with one click.
• Unlimited Malware Removal:Clean your website of malware for free, as often as necessary.
• Website Firewall – Plugin based:Monitor and block malicious IPs and visitors who send requests to your website. A powerful web application firewall for continuous website protection.
• Login Protection:Automatic CAPTCHA-based protection against bots trying to gain access to your website.

If you suspect unauthorized access, you can have your blog scanned manually at any time. Otherwise, the malware scan happens automatically on a daily basis.

Other features

BlogVault can do much more than WordPress backup. We also take a look at these functions:

Staging and Migration

The Staging and Migration services are built on top of the Backup service.

With a staging website, you have a copy that you can make changes to that you can replay back if needed. This feature is very handy, especially for customers where you can’t make any adjustments to the running system.

With the migration, you can move your website from one provider to another. BlogVault does this fully automatically for you.

WordPress Administration and Updates

Especially if you have more than one website, WordPress management is very convenient and time-saving.

From here you can update WordPress, themes and plugins. You can see at a glance whether there are problems where and whether updates are available.

Uptime Monitoring

You certainly want to know if your website is not available. With my plan, the condition is checked every 15 minutes. If there is a problem, I will of course receive an e-mail.

Loading

The speed of a website can be a tiresome topic. Since Google has included loading times in its algorithm, we all have to take care of it! But let’s be honest, nothing is more annoying than a blog that takes 10 seconds to load.

The following values are measured:

• Pagespeed Score
• Loading
• Page
• Requests

As can be seen in the screenshot above, my pagespeed is very good with a value of 95. However, I would like to improve the loading time of 2.22 seconds.

White label for customers

You can set up users for your own team. With the right plan, you can also create customers and let them access their own dashboard.

Thanks to the white label, you can adapt the customer WordPress backup to your own design so that it looks like the service is by yourself.

Integrations

At the time of the article, only the integration of Slack is possible. This will give you all the notifications in your Slack channel.

World Class Support

I prefer to use online chat when I have questions for support. That’s exactly what I did on Sunday, January 3rd. I didn’t expect a direct answer here, but it was only a few seconds before Sophia took care of my concerns.

Really good!

2020 Updates

Here’s a quick overview of all the features BlogVault released this year:

1. The 1-click wonders
   • 1-click clean-up without FTP
   • WordPress Backup: Restore with just one click!
2. More safety – For a better sleep
   • Personalized vulnerability alerts
   • Advanced bot protection
   • Lock plugin/theme function
3. Personalized reports – Especially interesting for customers
   • Choose your sender email ID and logo.
   • Send reports in the language of your choice.
   • Use custom fields to customize your subject line and email body.
   • Create and save templates for easy use.
4. Faster and easier updates
   • Mobile compatibility for updates on the go
   • Changelog for plugins/themes
   • Block auto-update function
   • Easy filtering for bulk updates
5. Enjoy better control over your websites
   • Lock plugin/theme function
   • Activity Log (Beta)

FAQ

Conclusion

If you just want to take care of your content and you’re not an IT technician, you still shouldn’t have to do without a regular WordPress backup, firewall, and malware removal.

I have found the right service for myself. BlogVault takes care of all my security concerns. Affordable and fully automated.

I love BlogVault!

If that’s not the right solution for you, check out my article on the best WordPress backup plugins.