Charges for Off-site Backups

Off-site Backups are a required feature for each server on the Cloudways platform, designed to securely store a copy of your server data in a remote location.

These backups act as an extra layer of protection, ensuring your applications can be restored even if your primary server or local backups are lost, corrupted, or accidentally deleted.

Since off-site storage requires additional infrastructure and resources, it is billed separately based on your backup storage usage.

This article explains how Off-site Backup charges work, how costs are calculated, and where you can review these charges in your Cloudways account so you can manage your backup preferences with clarity and confidence.

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Cloudways Off-site Backups are billed based on the total storage space used for your encrypted backup copies stored in a remote data center. The more backup data you keep and the longer you retain it, the higher the storage usage will be.

We understand that your data security is very critical. Hence, we have built a resilient backup system based on incremental/offsite backups of all the applications you host with us to an external storage network.

To know more about the charges, please select your platform:

We charge $0.033 per GB of backup storage (irrespective of server provider and location). The monthly backup charges will depend on how often your application data changes (incremental backups copy the files that have changed from the last full backup).

For Cloudways Autonomous, the backup costs are already included in your plan cost, offering a seamless and straightforward experience. You don’t need to worry about additional charges for off-site backups, as they are covered under your chosen plan.

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