Personally, I back up my site with a plugin and don’t rely on my web host provider to create backups. ManageWP is a good option for website backups. However, if you need to upload your backups to own cloud storage (like Amazon S3, Dropbox) from ManageWP, you have to pay the extra fee for that ($0.13/GB). If you are running a large website and back up it each 8 or 12 hours or daily, this will cost more money. Plus, many free WordPress backup plugins out there are available to use. But you have to carefully choose one, due to some freemium plugins lock the restore feature. Only Updraftplus and WPvivid Backup/Restore cover both backup and restore features in their free version. They both supports to create manual and scheduled backups and allow you to back up to the commonly used cloud storage. The scheduled backups and One-click restore give you peace of mind when you are facing data loss someday. If you don’t need extra features, the free version of both plugins can suite your needs.
