Hey there! Webflow CTO here chiming in on our data retention policies and our backup mechanisms. Hopefully this gives you peace of mind that you and your clients’ data with Webflow will be safe.
- All of your site’s data lives on databases managed by mlab, which uses Amazon EC2. There are multiple ‘slaves’ which keep copies of your site data on standby servers in the event of hardware failures so the application won’t suffer downtime.
- All of the database backups, as well as your site’s assets are stored in Amazon S3. It’s pretty much impossible for S3 to lose data (they tout 99.9999999%), but in the 0.000000001% chance that data does get lost, we replicate all of your site’s assets to another Amazon S3 region also with 99.99999999% uptime.
- We also periodically do cold-backups, where we download database backups and store them on hard drives in the event Amazon has a catastrophic failure. (if this were to happen you’d also lose your Netflix/Reddit data too, which is likely worse than losing your Webflow data — just kidding.)
We take security and the prevention of data loss very seriously at Webflow and we do our best to implement the most up-to-date security and IT processes to ensure Webflow data is secured in the most optimal way.