How to Restore Your Site from a Daily Backup

HostGridPro™ automatically backs up your site every day and stores backups off-site. Here is how to restore to any backup point if something goes wrong.

1 Log In to HestiaCP

Go to your HestiaCP control panel at https://yourdomain.co.za:8083. Log in with your hosting credentials.

2 Go to Backups

Click Backup in the top navigation bar. You will see a list of available backup points, each showing the date and time it was taken.

3 Choose Your Restore Point

Select the backup from the date you want to restore to. If a change you made today broke the site, choose yesterday's backup. Click Restore next to the date you want.

4 Full Restore vs Selective Restore

HestiaCP allows you to restore selectively:

• Full restore: All files and databases for the domain
• Files only: Just the website files, not the database
• Database only: Just the database, useful if WordPress data is corrupted but files are fine

Choose the appropriate option, confirm, and the restore will run automatically. This usually takes 1–5 minutes depending on site size.

5 After the Restore

After restoring, visit your website to confirm it is back to the correct state. Clear your browser cache (Ctrl+Shift+R) and any caching plugins to see the restored version without a cached copy in the way.

Backup Schedule & Retention

Daily backups run at 2:00 AM SAST. The last 7 days of backups are kept on all hosting plans. Backups are stored off-site on separate infrastructure — a server issue will not affect your backups.