It is human nature to neglect security until some problem happens. A hacked website, an absent backup, or customer data going into the wrong hands will destroy months of hard work within a couple of hours.
What Will Happen If a Website of a Small Business Is Hacked
Hackers target websites of small businesses because they expect poor security. People generally assume a hack would be easy to see, however, most of the time it is not. A hack is silent—a compromise that lasts for weeks, redirects customers to a different location, or sends spam using your domain name without revealing itself for a long period.
GDPR and Where Your Customer Data Is Actually Stored
Most business owners consider GDPR issues to be already solved by developers or hosting companies. However, this is not always the case. It could be partially done or not done at all. The places where your website is hosted, its backups are stored, and the apps it uses—such as mailing service, payment system, and Google Analytics—decide where your customer data is stored.
Online Storage and Backup Options
People get confused between storage and backup options since these are two different things. While storage is simply a place where all your files reside every day, a backup is an extra copy which is stored in such a way that you will be able to avoid losing anything if something happens to your main files.
Cloud storage makes sure that the backup is located in another building or even on another continent compared to your main location. Otherwise, a crash of your computer, an invasion or a fire can leave you with nothing if all your files are kept on one computer.
Now the main question is whether the backups you have created will work if your main files are lost.