The Rewind Blog

Stories and ideas about data security and backups.

SPOTLIGHT

6 Reasons Why You Need to Backup Your Ecommerce Store

We compiled the six most common situations in which you’ll be glad you had a backup.

What Black Friday Downtime Cost Gymshark – and How They Fixed It

This holiday season, 3 years after Gymshark experienced their biggest Black Friday nightmare, their technology team isn’t taking any chances..

The Best Shopify Security Apps – 6 Apps To Ensure Your Store Is Secure

by Krissie from Kollectify | Aug 27, 2019

Some of the most popular Shopify merchants have lost thousands of dollars, customers, and sales as a result of neglecting security. Thankfully, we’ve put together a list of the top security apps for your Shopify store so you can prevent this from happening to you. If...

Shopify Store Backup: 3 Ways to Backup Your Shopify Store

by Megan Smith | Aug 20, 2019

Having a backup for your Shopify store is a recommended best practice to ensure the security of your business-critical data. It’s like an ecommerce insurance policy for your online store. And there is no feeling that is worse than deleting something and knowing that...

How a 15-hour Cleanup of QuickBooks Online Turned This Bookkeeper Into a Backup Advocate

by Megan Smith | Aug 12, 2019

Summary Lynn Marsh, the founder of HealthyBOOKS Bookkeeping Services, experienced first hand how a QuickBooks Online app integration can create a massive disaster in a company’s books. She discovered that an app recorded $9B of inventory in a client's file, which...

Watch Rewind’s Talk at Shopify Unite with Dave North

by Megan Smith | Jul 2, 2019

Shopify Unite is an annual conference where Shopify developers and partners come together to celebrate accomplishments as a community and get a first glance at the latest Shopify product features. Our team has been attending Shopify Unite for the past four years. As...

How to Track the Source of Installs in Your Shopify App Store Listing

by Henry Brown | Jun 18, 2019

At some point after launching your app on the Shopify app store, you and every app developer will try to make sense of the traffic to your app listing. Is the Facebook campaign you’re testing out bringing merchants to your page? What about the handful of blog posts...

Ecommerce Insurance: What You Can Learn from Jeffree Star’s $2.5M Disaster

by Kaleigh Moore | Jun 13, 2019

Let’s start with a basic question: Is your ecommerce store protected from the unexpected? You may have answered with varying degrees of certainty. After all, no one can predict the future...and you can’t always plan for the unexpected. The reality, however, is that...

Simple Caching in AWS Lambda Functions

by Dave North | Jun 12, 2019

We process quite a large amount of webhooks from online SAAS applications at Rewind. Webhooks are triggered for us by the web apps we backup whenever something changes (ie. in a Shopify store, if an item changes we receive a webhook for the item). When we receive the...

Stop Working from Coffee Shops (Without a VPN Connection)

by Megan Smith | Jun 5, 2019

As a backup provider, Rewind understands the value of keeping your data secure as it is the backbone of your business operations. Taking steps to ensure your data is safe while using the Internet is also extremely important! Using a Virtual Personal Network (VPN) can...

How to Protect Your Shopify Store with Automatic Backups – eCommerce Fastlane Podcast

by Megan Smith | May 22, 2019

Mike Potter, CEO and Co-Founder of Rewind, sits down with Steve Hutt from eCommerce Fastlane Podcast about starting an ecommerce store 20 years ago, the data disaster he suffered, and the biggest myth around backups for cloud data. Click here to listen to the podcast....