Let's begin with a brief history lesson...
When WordPress first became a major player, everyone fell in love with it. It had all the perks - open source so anybody was able to develop any theme or plugin they so desired. It was easy to use. It was free.
Best of all: Internet Marketers were building million dollar, and multi-million dollar businesses with their WordPress sites.
Some hackers figured if they could find exploits in WordPress, they could easy take down, damage, or infect countless WordPress blogsā¦in one fell swoop!
They did just that. Millions of WordPress sites were compromised. Even Al Gore (who allegedly invented the Internet...hahaha) got his blog hacked.
Can you imagine? You use WordPress to build your business only to have it compromised over night - and you lose everything. Let me repeat that...
This is not good. That's why WordPress plugins such as automatic backup came out - to prevent this.
It was simple - install this free plugin and it would automatically back up your WordPress content for you, depending on what schedule you set.
Sounds like a Godsend! Turned out it just created a false sense of security. Why? Because these types of plugins don't back up ALL of your WordPress site. They just back up your CONTENT.
They don't back up your plugins or their configurations. They don't back up your theme or its configurations. So while it's better than nothing...it can still take days or weeks to get your blog back up if something goes wrong. How much business would you lose during that time?
You're more likely to break or mess up your WordPress site all on your own than having it exploited by hackers. It happens to the best of us.
Often it happens when you install a plugin that conflicts with another plugin. Or when you update to the latest version of WordPress, only to realize the theme you're using is not compatible.
Or you accidentally delete or remove something that messes up EVERYTHING!
Ever want to switch to another hosting company but didn't... because you weren't sure how to move your WordPress site?
Or perhaps you originally installed your WordPress site on http://mysite.com/blog but later want to move it to just http://mysite.com - how do you do that?
Is there a way to backup your WordPress site EXACTLY how it is - plugins, themes, posts, pages, comments, categories, permalinks, everything - and move it, transfer it, restore it, or duplicate it in just a few seconds? With a click of a button?
My name is Jason Fladlien and I started what is now multi-million dollar a year software business out of anger and disgust.
I was sitting in a private conference room at the Tuscany Suites Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, masterminding with fellow Internet Marketers, and I started venting about the fact that there were no decent tools to do what I wanted...
which was to "clone" an entire WordPress site in a way that made a bullet proof backup that I could "deploy" anywhere.
It was just wishful thinking because I had never built a piece of software in my life at that point. I had created a near 7-figure a year business selling information - but that was as far as I had gone.
We took a break from the conference room and I stepped outside for some sunshine.
I was approached by a guy named Wilson Mattos and he said to me: "I can build the tool you want. Want to partner on it 50/50?"
I didn't realize at the time that Wilson was some sort of genius when it came to technology and security. What luck!
Most of the highly successful marketers I knew told me our "blog cloner thingie" wouldn't sell.
The market doesn't want that was a phrase I heard often.
I shrugged. Maybe they were right. I didn't care. Even if we couldn't sell this tool to the public, I knew I would make a ton of money with it just in my own business.
Whatever. I'm glad I didn't listen to the well intentioned advice I was given because... We created what quickly became...
No hype. We struck a nerve with our software when we launched it.
In fact version 1.0 made such a stir that we hit Alexa's charts as the 11th HOTTEST moving website on the whole Internet, just 3 days after releasing WP Twin.
We were right behind ESPN, who broke the story of Roy Halladay, pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies, who threw a no hitter in the playoffs - only the second time in major league baseball this had been done.
That's how much excitement and stir we created with our new software - we demo'ed it, people loved it, everybody started talking about it and using it, and we sort of became celebrities in our niches.
I had never been a pioneer before. After we paved the way, dozens upon dozens of imitators tried to enter into the market to cash in on the "blog cloning craze."
They tried to compete with us on price - selling it for a half, a fourth, or even an eighth of what we were retailing WP Twin for.
They tried to compete with features - often adding TOO MANY additional features that frankly most users cared nothing about...and...actually increased the chance that their software wouldn't even work.
They tried everything. Yet, we withstood the test of time. Frankly I should thank the imitators. They educated the market further. People heard about cloning from them...tried their solution...And when it didn't work...
They found us.
The challenge with creating a tool that can back up and clone your entire WordPress site in seconds is achieving the fine balance between simplicity and security.
Most of our imitators errored too far on either side.
For example, a LOT of the copy cats created WordPress cloners that were actual plugins you install on your WordPress blog.
On the surface this seems like a good move. It's easy and simple. However, it's a BAD idea...it's actually dangerous!
Why? Well, have you ever locked your keys in your car? The same problem can happen with WordPress cloners and backup tools that are plugins.
If something happens to your blog which PREVENTS you from even having the ability to log into it...how are you going to access the plugin to retrieve and restore your backup?
It's happened to me on more than one occassion. For example, I installed a premium membership site plugin for WordPress that I had paid good money for.
When I launched my new membership site one of the paying members became an admin because of an error in the membership plugin, and it kicked me out of my own membership site.
I couldn't even log in to make changes! Could I get a backup and just restore things to normal? Not if the solution I was using was ALSO a WordPress plugin.
That error cost me several thousand dollars in lost business and paying someone to fix...
This is why Wilson is great. He knew how to build WP Twin the right way. NOT as a WordPress plugin, but rather a something that ran INDEPENDENTLY of WordPress, yet worked flawlessly.
We made WP Twin as simple for you to use as possible without having the security risks these plugins may have.
There were other solutions that came out which understood it wasn't a good idea to make the backup tool a WordPress plugin. However, they made using their solution too complicated to the average user.
For example, they would require to you to manually set up what's known as a MySQL database, then create a MySQL user, then add that user to the database, then assign the new user rights, as well as other additional steps.
This is painful! First of all, it is overly technical for many Internet Marketers. Second, even if you have the technical know-how it is still a slow and tedious process.
It's simple. You upload WP Twin to your WordPress site. Then you use your web browser to access WP Twin and click "Clone This Site." It will ask for your WordPress site username and password just to make sure YOU and ONLY YOU can clone your blog! Remember, we think security is important.
After you click "clone this site," a file is created in a few seconds which contains a complete clone of your site...it has EVERYTHING in it. It's just one file. You download this file to your computer.
What's next? If you want to restore this file later, because your site somehow gets messed up, just upload it and click "deploy clone."
If you want to move it to another site, host, or location, just install WordPress in that new location, then upload the clone file and click "deploy clone."
Any time you want to create a new clone, just use your web browser to access WP Twin and click "Clone This Site." In fact, we recommend you create a clone before making any changes to your site, such as installing or upgrading themes or plugins...and ESPECIALLY before upgrading WordPress itself. Simple, yet as secure as you can get!
WP Twin has been successfully used on (last I checked) 163,187 DOMAINS. Who knows how many clones, backups, and restores or deploys have been done on those domains? My guess is in the millions.
However there are rare occassions when a site doesn't clone effortlessly with WP Twin (or at all with other cloners). There are different reasons for this, such as some really bad hosting providers that do not configure their servers in a standard way, like all other hosting providers, or WordPress installations that are corrupt in some way even if they appear to work (but will fail in the near future).
What I can tell you with absolutely certaintly: you are much, much, much less likely to ever run into any error or issue with WP Twin than any other option on the market. Why? Because we've been battle tested.
More people use us, and we've been used on more servers and hosting accounts with more configurations than any other solution on the market. Thus, we have updated the script over time to minimize over 99 percent of the issues that other backup solutions run into.
Will it work for you? Based on our experience, there is a 99.2% chance it will work flawlessly for you. However, in the rare cases you encounter any issues, or even if you just have questions, then you will discover another WP Twin advantage...
Let me give you an idea of how dedicated we are to support and customer service...
We employ full-time, well-trained, dedicated support staff, as well as software engineers who develop our products. Let me repeat...these are full-time employees, not outsourcers we use occasionally!
Our support staff is available around the clock during the week and we even offer limited support during the weekends!
We spend nearly $10,000 per year for the best help desk software we could find. We do this because it helps our staff provide our customers with a better support experience, and because it gives us metrics to ensure we are providing the level of support our customers expect from a top-notch software company.
This tells you a few things.
Who else is willing to be open about this kind of stuff? If they were, you would see HOW MUCH better we are than almost any one else in the industry when it comes to support and customer service.
Thus far we've talked about using "cloning" basically as a backup procedure, and that's usually where most people leave it.
However, the real potential is not in the backup, it's in the momentum.
Let me explain. The average person who makes over $100,000 a year online does so with many sites, not just one.
Using WP Twin could allow you to easily build hundreds of sites in hours instead of months.
Our member areas, where customers download the different products they have purchased, are all created from a "clone" file.
We basically spent our time creating the best download area posssible, then for each new product we just "deploy" the clone to our new site and add the correct downloadable files for that product to the newly deployed site...and we're done!
Another example: for search engine optimized blogs there are almost always a certain set of plugins and configurations you'd use. Instead of having to set those plugins up for each and every blog... you'd only have to set them up ONCE and clone that set up. Then when you want to setup another blog, deploy the clone and you are done!
There are some smart WP Twin users that are creating and selling websites to local businesses.
What they've done is create a restaurant theme, a dentist theme, etc. Then they go and sell to the appropriate local business market.
After they sell them web design, they just go in and deploy a clone of the WordPress site, and then change a few things. What would normally take a day or two they can now do in an hour or two.
Other WP Twin users have made money by offering blog backup services and transfers on Fiverr. Yeah, they get paid five bucks a gig but it only takes them a few minutes.
There are even some who use WP Twin to easily build and flip sites, selling them on places like Flippa.com.
You need WP Twin for no other reason than to have a safe, secure, and reliable backup tool for your WordPress sites. You REALLY need it to be able to take your business to the next level due to the time it will save you in setting up and optimizing new WordPress sites.
The real question is what WP Twin license do you need? The light, the standard, or the unlimited package.
Before we take a look at each option... know this...
Whatever level of WP Twin licenses you decide to go with, you'll be covered for a full 30 days after your purchase today.
Try it out. If for any reason, or no reason at all, you are not 100% satisfied, just contact our helpdesk here: http://support.wptwin.com, and we'll promptly and quietly return every penny of your investment.
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