How backups and failover keep your site up
Two simple ideas do most of the work of keeping a site reliable: backups and failover. One protects your work; the other protects your availability. Together they mean a single mishap doesn't take you offline or wipe out your pages.
Backups: a safety net for your work
A backup is a recent copy of your site, kept somewhere separate. If a bad update, a mistake, or a hardware fault damages the live version, we restore from the copy and you carry on. Think of it as an "undo" button that reaches back days, not seconds. Without backups, one bad moment can mean rebuilding from scratch.
Failover: a spare that takes over
Failover means having a second setup ready to step in the instant the first one has trouble. Visitors keep reaching your site because traffic quietly shifts to the healthy copy. It's the difference between a flat tire that strands you and one where a spare is already mounted.
Why two cities
- Redundant across two cities. We run your site in Chicago and Newark, so a power or network problem in one city doesn't take you down everywhere.
- Monitored around the clock. We watch for trouble and act before most visitors notice.
- Backed up regularly. Fresh copies mean a fast recovery if the worst happens.
Every MinakiLabs hosting plan, websites, WordPress, apps, and servers, is built to be monitored, backed up, and redundant across two cities on our own network. See how it works on our network page, or see the plans on our services page.