What would you do if you woke up one morning and found out your website was offline or something bad happened to it? I would be running around livid. No threat though as I know I would have a copy of the website to restore from. For some others this may not be the case and you will need to recreate the website from scratch. There are a number of reasons why you can lose a website – Hosting provider could go offline, a bad update can cause a corrupt database or even a hacker taking control of your website. For certain there’s one thing that will be a lifesaver, a backup. A backup can be used to restore your website to its former glory.