Backing up your website/blog is extremely important and should be done outside your hosting provider’s network. You don’t want to be victim of the hosting company having server outages and restoring a several day old version of your site. For WordPress sites such as this, doing backups how I have chosen, is very affordable. Sites with a couple GBs in size would cost only a few dollars per month. I’m using the UpdraftPlus WordPress plugin and Amazon S3 for storage. See the articles linked below for more information on the importance of backups and how to setup backups the way I did.

How to Backup a WordPress Site: Step by Step Guide – UpdraftPlus

A Beginner’s Guide To Setting Up Automatic WordPress Backups – ProteusThemes