Archive Your Website with WayBack Machine

Archive.org is a website from The Internet Archive that crawls and archives digital content since 1996. Jetpack does this in WordPress automatically. However, below we cover how to manually archive a single webpage with the WayBack Machine.

Archive Your Website

  1. Visit https://Web.Archive.org.
    archive.org/web screenshot
  2. Type in the specific webpage URL and press Save Page.
  3. Once complete, you’ll be redirected to a page showing the archived webpage. At the top is a horizontal banner where you can view previous captures with dates.
    InMotionHosting.com archive from November 2018

    Below is a screenshot of InMotionHosting.com from October 2006.

    InMotionHosting.com archive from October 2006

Now, next time you need to restore a hacked website, you’ll have another backup source that doesn’t require you to login cPanel.

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