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SnapshotifyWhat Pro actually changes
1
Backups happen without you
The single biggest difference. A manual backup protects you only if you remembered to take one before the thing that went wrong, and the moments you most need a backup are the ones where you were not expecting trouble.
2
They are stored somewhere else
A backup on the same server as the site does not survive the failure that destroys the server. Free can download archives manually; Pro uploads them automatically.
3
Old ones clean themselves up
Without retention, scheduled backups accumulate until the disk fills, and a full disk breaks the site you were protecting.
Scheduled backups on Pro also drive themselves to completion inside the cron request, which is what makes them reliable on hosts where the site cannot make requests to itself. See how backups run.
What free is genuinely enough for
A one-off migration
A one-off migration
Moving a site to a new host or domain needs one backup and one restore. Free does the whole job, including the URL rewriting that makes page-builder content point at the new domain.
A site you rarely change
A site you rarely change
If you edit twice a year, a manual backup before each edit is a real strategy rather than a compromise.
A host that already backs up
A host that already backs up
If your host takes and keeps off-site backups you have tested, Snapshotify free covers the gap they usually leave: a backup you take yourself, immediately before you do something risky.
Where free is not enough
If losing a week of work would matter, and nobody is going to remember to click a button every day, you need scheduling and off-site storage. That is the case Pro exists for.Pro is sold as the DaftPlug membership rather than as a single-plugin upgrade. One license covers Snapshotify and every other DaftPlug Pro plugin, and plans differ only in the number of site activations.
See pricing
Compare the plans on daftplug.com.