Dataplugs in Hong Kong: WordPress prices and recovery time

Who Dataplugs may suit

This profile is based on published offers and documentation. No new hosting benchmark or support test was performed for this translation.

Plans, prices and renewals

Prices retain the market, currency and billing period described in the French source. Translation does not update a commercial quote. Confirm the final price, taxes and options before ordering.

Languages and support

Website and documentation

English, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese.

Control panel

cPanel. Confirm account language.

Support

24/7 support advertised. Chat, tickets and email. Confirm channel languages.

Dataplugs in Hong Kong: choose a recovery point

Dataplugs sells three cPanel WordPress plans in Hong Kong with several prepaid cycles. Daily backups appear as a priced option. A fictional team needs to know which site state can return to service after an incident, considering the point’s date and available time to open it.

The team sets two requirements before the trial. It specifies how many hours data may be rolled back and when the site must be usable again. The newest point may be incomplete or take too long to restore. The local exercise compares fictional records, exposes rejection reasons and indicates when no copy permits recovery approval.

This profile distinguishes introductory prices, published annual renewal and intervention fees. It separates site storage, infrastructure copies and exports the account holder must keep available.

Compare prepayment and renewal in HKD

On November 10, 2026, the detailed table displayed recorded prices in Hong Kong dollars, currency code HKD. The site also permits USD display. For monthly payment or three-month prepayment, it displays 196, 296 and 356 HKD per month for Startup, Growth and Enterprise. For twelve prepaid months, equivalents are 138, 198 and 228 HKD, or 1,656, 2,376 and 2,736 HKD for the initial cycle at the displayed schedule. Over twenty-four months, they are 118, 178 and 208 HKD. Over thirty-six months, 98, 148 and 178 HKD total 3,528, 5,328 and 6,408 HKD. Multiply the prominently displayed long-term price by the prepaid month count.

The terms publish annual renewal rates of 2,352 HKD for Startup, 3,552 HKD for Growth and 4,272 HKD for Enterprise. These correspond to 196, 296 and 356 HKD per month over one year. Confirm the duration and total due after a twenty-four- or thirty-six-month contract. Cancellation terms require notification through the specified channel at least forty-eight hours before renewal and written confirmation. Record the subscription date and reference early, especially if recovery or departure is still underway.

The public agency InvestHK states that Hong Kong has no VAT or general sales tax. For a billing address outside Hong Kong, check invoice treatment and currency-conversion or payment fees. Read domain, backup, restoration and certificate options separately. As a budget example, Startup for twelve months plus twelve months of the 30 HKD backup option totals 2,016 HKD at the stated rates, before interventions or other options.

Read resources and choose the region

Startup lists 20 GB web space, 1,024 MB RAM and one 5 GB MySQL database. Growth lists 100 GB, 2,048 MB RAM and five 5 GB databases. Enterprise displays web space without a numerical ceiling, 4,096 MB RAM and an uncapped database count in the table, with 5 GB per database. The table lists 50, 300 and 1,000 mailboxes, with an advertised maximum of 10 GB per mailbox. It also sets inode ceilings of 150,000, 200,000 and 250,000 by plan. Count files and directories at the test destination. Bandwidth without a numerical quota does not establish guaranteed throughput for downloading an archive or reopening a site.

The product page displays Hong Kong in the range’s location selector, and the help locates the provider’s data centers in Hong Kong. The account’s city or territory remains distinct from data center address and backup residency. Have the assigned center and selected backup-service location specified. If email or a distribution service is hosted elsewhere, list it separately in the inventory.

The test site needs enough space for restored files and database, with the same plugins and a compatible environment. Measure export size and record active database size. For Startup and Growth, the table displays paid SSL at 199 HKD per year and a dedicated IP at 50 HKD per month. It advertises these as included with Enterprise. The terms limit free migration to one site and ten mailboxes on a new twelve-, twenty-four- or thirty-six-month subscription within thirty days of activation. Also check which domains and certificates will be available at the test destination. If backup points reside in a portal or external location, record how to download them even when the WordPress account is unavailable.

Separate WordPress tools, support and AI

The offer presents cPanel, a one-click WordPress installer and phpMyAdmin. The table lists several PHP versions including PHP 8.3 and MariaDB 10.3.39. WordPress recommends PHP 8.3 or newer and MariaDB 10.11 or newer, or MySQL 8.0 or newer. Confirm the database version actually offered before transferring. Check the active version, installation settings and plugin compatibility at the destination. The consulted pages are insufficient to promise managed WordPress updates or staging for every plan. The team must determine who opens and validates the restored copy.

The website and comparison exist in English, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese. The range advertises continuous support and lists chat, tickets and email as channels. Confirm languages actually available per channel and cPanel’s active language. Advertised support availability does not establish full-site recovery time. Public documents attach no generative assistant or AI credits to this WordPress offer.

Establish backup costs and scope

The WordPress FAQ states that Dataplugs does not create customer-site backups by default. The table displays 30 HKD per month for daily backup with up to thirty copies. The restoration-service line displays 1,000 HKD per hour. A note attached to the backup option lists 500 HKD per restoration request. Have the quote clarify which line applies, what it covers and when both amounts may combine. A maximum copy count does not set a delivery timeframe. Check point contents, mailbox handling, availability time and the restoration price applicable to the selected subscription. The provider also presents a separate Acronis service. Do not assign its options to the 30 HKD line without confirmation.

The SLA titled Web and SSD Hosting describes infrastructure copies intended for the provider without guaranteed availability for rollback requests. Its title alone does not apply it to every WordPress subscription. The terms prohibit using the hosting server for site-backup storage. The team must prepare an independent destination, download files, secure access and test readability. Ask whether a full export uses an authorized temporary archive and how to retrieve components without retaining copies on production.

To budget recovery, record operations the team can perform with its access and those requiring a ticket. The plan, external storage and an intervention are separate lines. A daily copy is an advertised frequency. If the team tolerates only a few hours of rollback, plan production and verification of independent copies at a frequency matching activity. Record the latest write time and capture time for every rehearsal.

Practice deciding within a recovery window

Four fictitious points compared against time and lookback requirements. — Illustration by BlogPasCher.Open full-size illustration ↗

The ZIP under “To prepare your site” contains EXERCICE-DATAPLUGS.cjs. This script runs with Node.js without network access. The supplied result uses Node 22.16.0. The scenario sets an incident at 10 and expected service restoration at 10:45 Hong Kong time. The team accepts at most six hours of data rollback. For each fictional point, it examines file and database presence, verification and accessibility. Expected duration adds waiting, transfer, restoration and checking. Durations belong to the scenario; they measure neither Dataplugs nor real restoration.

The 9:30 point lacks the database. The 8:20 point is complete, but its expected 52-minute duration exceeds the 45 available minutes. The 6:30 point is complete and accessible. It represents 210 minutes of data rollback and 36 minutes of recovery in the dataset. It is selected. The 1:10 point restores faster in the model, but its 530-minute rollback exceeds the limit. The fallback test makes the only acceptable point inaccessible. The result then selects no copy.

In a real rehearsal, set both thresholds before examining archives. Enter capture time, then record when the copy is actually accessible and checks finish. If a copy is complete but too old, start reconciliation of changes made since the point. If recent but too slow to open, examine measured stages before promising recovery. Keep rejection reasons in the record. No acceptable copy should trigger a continuity decision instead of a default restoration choice.

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Prepare the export and time a restoration

The Dataplugs guide presents cPanel > Backup Wizard, followed by partial component backup on shared hosting. Download the required directory and MySQL database to an independent destination. In the inventory, distinguish needed WordPress files, database, mailboxes and filters. Keep PHP versions, domain settings and necessary destination access. The WordPress handbook distinguishes files from database data. Successfully extracting a directory does not restore a site that depends on an SQL export.

To time the trial, start when the team receives the recovery instruction. Record time to access the account holding the copy, download, open files, import SQL and perform the first useful check. Prepare a separate destination and disable external outputs before testing. Then open a public page, an administration page and the most recently changed content within the chosen point. Test authentication with a test account and check a form without real sending. Every step needs a time and result. If file access depends on an absent person, waiting time forms part of observed duration.

Dataplugs advertises free inbound migration during the first thirty days after activation, with files, email and databases under the terms. Confirm scope for the project’s volume and source. Departure must remain possible using archives that no longer require the account at contract end. Also test reading the copy when the public site is unavailable. Before changing addresses, record how to return to the previous destination and who authorizes rollback.

Before timing, write down what must be available by the deadline. For this project, the public catalogue and form may be priorities, while restoring an archive mailbox follows a separate procedure. This changes each measurement’s scope. An essential form dependency, such as a plugin table or attachments directory, belongs in the check even if the catalogue already opens. If it cannot be read, the point remains incomplete for that workflow.

To avoid dating a point solely from its filename, record the latest write time found in the copy. Then check that the file and SQL export match the advertised state. An archive made available at 9:30 may contain a database exported earlier. Determine data rollback from the time of the state actually verified. If logs or order references identify missing writes, list them before restoration. Reintroduce them after checking the test site and verify that a second attempt creates no duplicates.

Decide before renewal and source removal

Startup may suit if the site fits its web space and database fits the displayed quota. Plan choice alone does not select a recovery system. A team considering the backup option should ask what is copied, when and with what download access. For assisted restoration, price intervention and waiting from written terms. For a team-run procedure, measure time on a destination it can open even when primary hosting is unavailable.

The exercise shows that advertised daily backup does not guarantee, at every hour, a usable point meeting a six-hour objective. In practice, start from times when the site changes, then decide which data needs more frequent export. Verify frequency, accessibility and duration actually observed in rehearsal. If the newest point is incomplete, document the missing component. If complete but too slow to open, note which stage exceeds the limit. If no copy fits, maintain the team’s chosen continuity state and address reconstruction of changes before authorizing public return.

The exit trial must finish before sending cancellation. The terms state that files, including backups, are destroyed when the account effectively ends. Verify export access from an independent location and obtain written confirmation of the deadline and request acceptance. Domain payment, email availability and site switchover may follow different schedules. Assign someone to check them before removing old access.

Keep the latest usable point’s record, archive checksums and a rehearsal date. The first person opening the destination confirms components and the restored point’s time. The person checking the site verifies agreed workflows and states when they respond. The expected result is working WordPress with the correct data state, within the set deadline and from an accessible copy. A recorded decision also states the possible rollback if a check fails after service resumes.

Prepare your site

• 25 WordPress backup tools by recovery need
• WordPress requirements not met: check PHP and MySQL or MariaDB
• WordPress migration, staging and imports: choose the right tool
• Download the recovery-point selection exercise