bit of a mixed bag :/

  • … when it works, it’s great; a hands-off backupping solution doing all the necessary things very conveniently if set up properly. That would make it a 5-star-plugin.

    The utter downside of it is its rather pronounced untenability for sites on weak / shared / small servers. In the most unfortunate of circumstances, it may take up twice the size of the space your operative site is actually needing to run (so, if your site occupies 2GB to run, it will need 6GB in total; more, actually, in order to not choke out (and even more, still, if you want to keep more than just the last 1 instance per backup package).
    Moreover, running Updraft will notably slow down your site’s response times if not making them outright unavailable while doing its thing, if your hosting is on a not so performant plan. That makes it a killer of li’l ones ?? which, in turn, earns it a low-star ranking from our end;
    “3” ending up as the resulting tally.

    Bottom line: a fine solution – but absolutely not for the faint of site.

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  • Sounds like the developer should be steering the client to stable hosting.

    Thread Starter eLeXeM

    (@elexem)

    more like the hobbyist not having bottomless pockets. ??

    I refuse to triple my spending on hosting to accomodate one resource hog, however nicely done.

    Plugin Author David Anderson

    (@davidanderson)

    Hi,

    “if your site occupies 2GB to run, it will need 6GB in total”

    This isn’t the case any more – a release towards the end of last year completed the refactoring to make it possible to upload individual components upon creation (instead of after all components are created).

    There’s lots of hosting out there which is both cheap and performant. I myself have been in the web hosting industry for almost 2 decades. If your site wobbles when running a backup, then though in UD we’re always searching for ways to make the best of whatever hosting is used, it is still the case that it is always best to invest in decent hosting, and not let your web hosting company give you excuses. A backup will always, by its essential nature, need to read everything, compress everything, and write everything. Some hosting companies don’t budget for that and they blame everyone else for that – but as I say, plenty of hosting companies do, and are still cheap.

    David

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