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.

How to Duplicate a Shopify Store in Minutes

Our complete guide to copying a Shopify store to help you manage multiple stores, open a test store, or create a wholesale account.

Automatic CloudFront Invalidation for S3 Origins

by Dave North | Jan 4, 2019

Welcome to the first post on the Rewind engineering blog. We’re hoping to share some of the interesting technology problems we’re solving and solutions we’ve come up with. To kick things off, here’s a small solution to a common problem - automatically forcing a...

Why Should I Back Up My Web Apps? And More of Your Questions Answered

by Rally Stanoeva | Nov 23, 2018

We’ll be the first to admit that it isn’t immediately obvious to everyone why you need to back up your web apps. Even our co-founder James Ciesielski questioned it when Mike Potter first pitched the idea of backing up Shopify stores. And yet, here we are today with...

Black Friday Downtime: What it Cost Gymshark and Why Rewind is their New Backup Plan

by Rally Stanoeva | Oct 26, 2018

This holiday season, three years after Gymshark experienced their biggest Black Friday nightmare, their technology team isn’t taking any chances. To limit any risk of downtime, Gymshark is using Rewind to backup all 14 of their Shopify stores. But it was only a couple...

Meet the Team: Spencer Band, Sales Expert at Rewind

by Sarah Seguin | Oct 25, 2018

William Clement Stone once said: “Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesperson, not the attitude of the prospect.” Without a strong, friendly, and understanding sales team, no business can truly succeed - even with the best of products. The...

How To Calculate Your Ecommerce Downtime Cost

by Saeed Ismail Saeed | Oct 1, 2018

If your revenue is entirely dependent on selling online, then downtime is the Joker to your Batman. When your online store isn’t functioning properly, even for as little as 30 minutes, you are turning customers away at the door. Any extended period of downtime will...

CSV Files and Your Ecommerce Store: Everything You Need to Know

by Mike Potter | Sep 10, 2018

A Comma Separated Values file, also known as a CSV file, is a plain text file that contains tabular data and spreadsheets. They are easy to create, can be manipulated by using any text editor, and can be imported and exported onto other platforms. Because of how easy...

Meet the Team: James Ciesielski, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Rewind

by Sarah Seguin | Sep 5, 2018

Before there can even be a concept, there needs to be someone with the initial idea: “Let’s start a business.” For Rewind, this crucial puzzle piece was its co-founder, James Ciesielski. Having known his business partner and friend, Mike Potter, since 2012, the two...

5 Ecommerce Automation Tools To Optimize Your Time

by Robert Woo | Aug 16, 2018

If you work in eCommerce for giant corporations like Amazon or Pepsi that can throw an unlimited amount of workers at any time-consuming problem, then this article isn’t for you. Rather, if you’re like 99% of most businesses that have a growing internet storefront but...

Meet the Team: Mike Potter, Co-founder and CEO of Rewind

by Sarah Seguin | Aug 14, 2018

If the concept for Rewind was the lightbulb going off, then Mike Potter’s was the head that lightbulb first flashed over. As the CEO and co-owner of this fast flourishing start-up company, his insight into the importance of backups within the ecommerce industry, and...