How To Keep Your Opencart eShop Working Fast & Optimised
Opencart, like any database driven website needs occasional maintenance to keep it working slick and in tip top condition. Database management is an essential tasks that all shop owners should attend to regularly, but all too often it’s not considered until a disaster happens.
It’s incredibly important to backup your Opencart shop, so that in the event of a disaster you can quickly make repairs and recommence trading. Down time means lost revenue and disappointed visitors but the effects of a crash or worse still a sucessful hacking attempt can have far greater disruption if you do not have a recent backup to fall back on.
What would happen to your business if all your order histories were lost? How would you prepare your tax returns? How long would it take to re-input products, reward points, special offers, re-write information pages and set up the various modules and all for the sake of spending a few minutes daily just to take a back up.
Opencart comes with it’s very own back-up and restore facility and it could hardly be easier to use. If you haven’t backed up before then do it now, right now! Don’t just assume that you host provider or webmaster has has done this for you. As the shop owner this is your responsibility and if you close your eyes to the issues then it may only be a matter of time before you run into costly problems for reasons that maybe out of your webmaster’s control.
How to Back Up Opencart.
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