New · Backup regions
Choose where your WordPress backups are stored.
Pick one of 10 regions for each site when you add it. The region locks after the first backup, so your backup chain stays intact.
- 10
- regions
- 3
- continents
- Per site
- not per account
Site shop.nordicwear.eu is added. Pick a backup region.
Why location matters
A backup is a full copy of your site, including its personal data.
Customer records, orders, form submissions and user accounts all end up in the backup. Which country that copy sits in can matter. Now you can answer that question for each site.
Clients ask where data goes
Tell them which region their backups are stored in, without having to look it up.
Contracts that name a country
If an agency agreement names a storage location, set that region for the site.
Some teams just want to know
The site’s detail page shows which region it uses.
Choosing a region does not, on its own, make your setup compliant with any law. Location is one part of the picture. How backup regions work →
How it works
Choose the region before the first backup runs.
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01 Editable
Pick it when you add a site
The Add site form has a Backup region field. Choose where this site’s backups go.
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02 Visible
See it afterwards
The site’s detail page shows which region its backups use.
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03 Paused
Frozen during a backup
A backup that’s running is already writing to one region, so the field can’t change.
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04 Locked
Locked after the first backup
After the first successful backup, the region stays fixed. The page shows when it locked.
Try it: the field through a first backup
EditableYou can change this until the first successful backup.
No backups yet
Why it locks: backups are chained
Each incremental backup depends on the one before it. Moving the chain halfway would break it.
Locked · AMS3
Deleting backups does not unlock the region. If a locked site has to move, add it again as a new site and pick the region you want; the archives already written stay where they are.
What stays the same
- Backups stay in a private bucket and are downloaded through short-lived signed links. Where backups are stored
- Full and incremental backups, schedules and retention work the same as before. How backups work
- A region choice is not a compliance certification. What our privacy policy says about backup storage
Agency checklist
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Pick a region for your next site.
Off-site backups, one-click updates and uptime checks for all your client sites, from one panel.