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Understand database backup consistency across exports, physical backups, and snapshots, then verify transactions, dependencies, and application behavior.

Compare SFTP, FTP, and FTPS, verify server identity, limit transfer access, and check files, permissions, database needs, and rollback before deployment.

Manage VPS application secrets with scoped credentials, controlled delivery, safe rotation, protected logs, and recovery steps for background services.

Apply least privilege across WordPress, hosting, SSH, and API access with task-based roles, permission checks, temporary elevation, and clean offboarding.

Evaluate hosting DDoS coverage by traffic layer, protected endpoints, origin access, support escalation, and the effect of mitigation on legitimate customers.

Understand WAF and network firewall coverage, protect origin access, and test rules against logins, checkout, webhooks, and other legitimate website traffic.

Secure hosting owner access with strong MFA, individual roles, reviewed API tokens, protected recovery email, and a recovery process your team can actually use.

Respond to website incidents with a first-hour plan for confirming impact, coordinating changes, preserving evidence, communicating, and verifying recovery.

Set website RPO and RTO targets around lost data, downtime, and real business functions, then verify them with measured recovery exercises and clear ownership.

Create a website backup policy with clear coverage, retention, independent storage, named ownership, and restoration checks that prove your data is usable.