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[About BlogVault]

We’ve been making WordPress sites recoverable since 2010

BlogVault began with one job: backups that actually restore. Sixteen years later we are still an independent, founder-led company, and the same team builds MalCare, Migrate Guru, WP Remote and Airlift. More than 400,000 sites in 120 countries rely on that work.

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Founded
2010
Funding
Bootstrapped
Team
40+ people
Sites
400,000+
Restores
1M+
Products
5

Trusted by site owners, agencies and hosts around the world. Bootstrapped, independent, and answerable to nobody but customers.

  • 400,000+Websites protected
  • 2M+Sites migrated
  • 5,000+Webhosts supported
  • 120Countries

How it started

It started with someone else’s crash

In 2010 Akshat Choudhary was nowhere near WordPress. He was doing kernel work at Citrix, building a networking device called NetScaler.

Then Coding Horror went down. It was the programming blog of Jeff Atwood, one of the founders of Stack Overflow, and it turned out there was no working backup. Only cached copies of the pages brought it back.

That raised a question that wouldn’t go away: if Jeff Atwood doesn’t have a backup he can restore, what about everyone else?

So Akshat learned WordPress and built BlogVault, a backup service whose whole point is the restore. It was our first product, and it set the pattern for every one after it.

▸ Incident · 2010
Site
codinghorror.com
Status
Down
Working backup
None
Recovered from
Cached pages

The question it left: what about everyone else?

How we decide what to build

We only build where the market has failed

Three rules you can check against every product we have shipped.

  1. 1.1

    If it’s already solved, we skip it

    Every product we make started where existing tools had been failing for years: backups that didn’t restore, scanners that didn’t find malware, migrations that didn’t finish.

  2. 1.2

    We ship when it works, not when it demos

    Our malware scanner took years of work before it could find what others miss, and Airlift took years before one click could make a site fast. We would rather launch late than launch something you can’t rely on.

  3. 1.3

    Standing still is falling behind

    Sixteen years in, every product still gets improvements every week. There is always a better way to do the job.

Timeline

Sixteen years, five products

Each one began the same way: a problem that mattered, and tools that weren’t solving it.

  1. 2010

    BlogVault

    [Backups]

    The gap
    There was no dependable way to back up a WordPress site. Even famous blogs were one crash away from gone.
    What we built
    Backups built around the restore, with the heavy work on our servers. Today they handle sites of 100 GB and more.
    How backups work
  2. 2015

    Technology for hosts

    [Migrations]

    The gap
    Web hosts needed a reliable way to move their customers’ sites onto their servers.
    What we built
    WP Engine, Pantheon, Cloudways, Automattic and Liquid Web built their migration tools on our technology.
  3. 2016

    MalCare

    [Security]

    The gap
    Malware sat on sites for months without any scanner finding it, and cleaning it up usually broke the site.
    What we built
    A scanner that reads 100+ signals to find hidden malware, and removes it in one click.
    malcare.com
  4. 2017

    Migrate Guru

    [Migrations]

    The gap
    Moving a site meant half-working plugins and transfers that stopped partway.
    What we built
    Free, reliable migrations of any size, using the same technology the large hosts build on.
    migrateguru.com
  5. 2019

    WP Remote

    [Site management]

    The gap
    Agencies were juggling a dozen dashboards to keep their clients’ sites running.
    What we built
    We acquired WP Remote and rebuilt it from scratch, so an agency can manage every site from one place.
    wpremote.com
  6. 2023

    Airlift

    [Performance]

    The gap
    Speed was a pile of settings, plugins and manual fixes that rarely added up to a fast site.
    What we built
    One click that optimises every part of a page and keeps the site fast as it changes.
    airlift.net

TodayEvery product keeps improving, and we are applying AI across detection, clean-up and optimisation.

No investor has ever told us what to build. We are bootstrapped and founder-led, so the only people we answer to are the people whose sites we look after.

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Akshat Choudhary
Akshat ChoudharyFounder & CEO

The founder

Still run by the person who started it

“I started this company in 2010 because backups were broken and nobody seemed bothered. Sixteen years later the pattern hasn’t changed: we find the problem people have learned to live with, like malware nobody can find, migrations that fail or sites that crawl, and we work on it until it’s properly solved.

No investors have ever told us what to build. 400,000 sites trust that work, and we are not close to done.”

A team you can actually meet

About forty people, most of them in Bangalore. You’ll find us at conferences, on YouTube and in your support tickets.

  • WordCamps

    Come and say hello

    We sponsor and attend WordCamps around the world. The people at our booth are the people who build the products.

    Get in touch
  • YouTube

    We share what we learn

    Our WPDev channel covers WordPress engineering and security for 100,000+ subscribers, drawn from the problems we see across 400,000+ sites.

    Watch WPDev
  • Support

    The same team, end to end

    Engineers, security researchers and support staff work on the same problems. What we learn helping one site owner goes back into the product.

    Contact support

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The problems on this page are the job: hard, unsolved and worth solving, at a company that answers to its users. We hire all year round.

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