{"id":1335,"date":"2019-02-08T10:36:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T10:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2019\/02\/08\/1863731-how-to-back-up-a-website-at-bluehost\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T07:40:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T07:40:05","slug":"1863731-how-to-back-up-a-website-at-bluehost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/1863731-how-to-back-up-a-website-at-bluehost\/","title":{"rendered":"How to back up a website at Bluehost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back up a website at Bluehost to upload it to your hosting plan at Hostinger.<\/p><h2 id=\"h-back-up-your-bluehost-website\">Back up your Bluehost website<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">If you want to backup a website hosted at Bluehost to <a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-upload-it-to-your-hosting-plan-at-hostinger\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/1884234-how-to-upload-backups-at-hostinger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">upload it to your hosting plan at Hostinger<\/a>, follow these steps:<\/p><ol>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Log in to your Bluehost control panel.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Navigate to <b>Advanced<\/b> &rarr; <b>File Manager.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Click on the <b>Site Backup and Restore<\/b> menu.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Navigate to the public_html folder of your domain, select the files, right-click, and select <b>Compress.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Now you can then download the backup by right-clicking on it and selecting <b>Download.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol><p>Once downloaded, see <a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-how-to-upload-backups-at-hostinger\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/1884234-how-to-upload-backups-at-hostinger\/\">how to upload backups at Hostinger<\/a>, or <a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-generate-backups-from-other-providers-at-hostinger\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/1863862-how-to-generate-backups-from-other-providers-at-hostinger\/\">generate backups from other providers at Hostinger<\/a> for guides on other platforms.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\"><b>Additional resources<\/b><\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Here&rsquo;s a full guide on how to migrate from Bluehost to Hostinger: <a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-how-to-cancel-a-bluehost-account-and-migrate-your-services-t\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/tutorials\/how-to-cancel-bluehost\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to Cancel a Bluehost Account and Migrate Your Services to Another Platform<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">You can check the guide from Bluehost here: <a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-how-to-create-a-manual-backup-of-your-website\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/help\/article\/how-to-create-manual-backup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to Create a Manual Backup of Your Website<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">If you need further help, make sure to contact <a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-bluehost-support\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/contact\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bluehost support<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making a backup of a website at Bluehost<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-migrating-to-hostinger"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/1863731-how-to-back-up-a-website-at-bluehost","default":1},{"locale":"es-ES","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/es\/support\/1863731-como-hacer-una-copia-de-seguridad-de-un-sitio-web","default":0},{"locale":"fr-FR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/fr\/support\/1863731-comment-faire-une-sauvegarde-d-un-site-web","default":0},{"locale":"id-ID","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/id\/support\/1863731-cara-membuat-backup-di-bluehost","default":0},{"locale":"lt-LT","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/lt\/support\/1863731-kaip-sukurti-atsargine-svetaines-kopija-su-bluehost","default":0},{"locale":"pt-BR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/br\/support\/1863731-como-fazer-backup-de-um-site-na-bluehost","default":0},{"locale":"uk-UA","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/ua\/support\/1863731-\u044f\u043a-\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e\u0440\u0438\u0442\u0438-\u0440\u0435\u0437\u0435\u0440\u0432\u043d\u0443-\u043a\u043e\u043f\u0456\u044e-\u0441\u0430\u0439\u0442\u0443-\u0432-bluehost","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15023,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions\/15023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}