Your WordPress database is storing thousands of records that will never be used again.
Post revisions. Expired transients. Spam comments. Orphaned metadata.
Here's what that's costing you 🧵
Amazon S3 is excellent storage. It's also the wrong answer for WordPress backups.
Not because it's unreliable. Because it has no idea what WordPress is.
Duplicator Cloud starts from the WordPress side and works outward. That difference shows up everywhere 🧵
A hacker doesn't need to touch your WordPress site if they have your Google Drive login.
Your backup file already has everything they'd steal.
Here's how to better protect your site data with backup encryption 🧵
Most backup plugins have the same blind spot: they need WordPress working to restore.
Locked out of wp-admin? Your backup is right there. You just can't reach the restore button.
Here's how to fix that 🧵