Security and Backups

Security measures aim to reduce and detect threats. Backups provide a separate recovery resource when data or a working version of the website is needed. Both depend on suitable management and neither should be presented as a guarantee that disruption cannot occur.

The arrangements described here apply to websites hosted through Devonto's managed service. A website hosted elsewhere may have different arrangements.

It helps to separate a working website from the copies kept for recovery. A backup provides a version from an earlier point in time, so its usefulness depends on when it was taken and what needs to be recovered. Keeping backups off site also separates that resource from the website's immediate hosting environment.

Retention gives a window of earlier versions to work from. The managed arrangements described here provide at least 14 days, with longer retention on Devonto's own infrastructure. If you need to understand the arrangement for a particular website, we can explain the applicable service rather than assuming every hosting environment is identical.

Restoration testing addresses a different question from simply checking that a backup job ran. It helps establish whether the available process can recover a copy. The quarterly testing described below forms part of that approach, without turning the existence of a backup into a promise about the outcome of every incident.