(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — With the vision of ensuring that those using open-source blogging platform WordPress (www.wordpress.org) for blogs and sites are “always completely secure, regardless of what happens,” the company behind it has announced a private beta of its WordPress backup service, VaultPress (www.vaultpress.com).
“I’m very excited about this service because it is the first step toward my dream of every WordPress, regardless of where it’s hosted, to have best-in-the-world network (cloud? 
) services that take all the worry and hassle away,” Matt Mullenweg, founding developer of the popular WordPress, wrote in his blog. “People invest so much time, money, effort, blood, sweat, and tears into their WordPress-powered sites — they deserve for that to be 100 percent secure.”
According to the announcement last week, VaultPress is the only protection and backup service built on the Automattic grid that can reliably serve more than 10 million WordPress.com blogs with a total of 250 million monthly visitors. And because it understands the WordPress environment, VaultPress protects more than just content, but also settings and customizations are all safeguarded and ready to be restored.
Since its inception in 2003, WordPress has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on millions of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day. Web hosts cannot ignore the number of their users who run WordPress on their sites, and many web hosts offer “blog hosting” packages based on WordPress. In fact, it is such a priority that Microsoft announced that its new cloud platform, Windows Azure, would be able to host WordPress instances.
As WordPress is increasingly used for professional communications, VaultPress offers enterprise-grade security and peace of mind. In real-time, posts are uploaded to the cloud in seconds and replicated on no fewer than two cloud services in addition to the the local copy.
Beyond backup, Mullenweg notes that WordPress plans on making the VaultPress engine able to respond to security threats such as zero-day vulnerabilities. “In the future, if your site is tampered with in any way, we’ll know within minutes and can take appropriate steps,” he noted. “The VaultPress core engine will be able to protect you against zero-day security vulnerabilities by updating your blog with hot-fixes, even while you sleep.”
Beta testers can signup on the VaultPress website.
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