Modular DS vs Prime Mover – Backup and Migration

Modular DS is an all-in-one WordPress site management platform built for freelancers and agencies to easily manage multiple sites, save time, and run a profitable maintenance business. From a single, intuitive dashboard, you can: Bulk manage and update plugins, themes, and WordPress core across multiple sites at once. Monitor uptime and performance with real-time alerts. Schedule automatic backups and restore them in one click from Modular DS. Know how likely a plugin update is to break your site before applying it with Update Copilot, our AI-powered update scoring system. Run quick or safe updates and automate them with smart rules based on version type, risk level, or detected vulnerabilities. Perform vulnerability and malware scans. Detect and fix broken links and images. Migrate, clone, and create staging environments. Optimize your WordPress databases right from Modular DS. Generate automated reports, including pre-maintenance reports, to show the value of your work to clients. Display a custom maintenance mode page to hide unfinished changes while you update or work on a site. Modular DS is the most complete alternative to ManageWP, MainWP, WP Umbrella, InfiniteWP, and WP Remote, bringing smart update automation, monitoring, backups, security, and reporting into a single platform. Usability and support are at the heart of everything we do. Our team brings over a decade of hands-on experience in WordPress site management and is always ready to help when you need it. Explore more features on our website or try it for free. Manage, monitor, and protect all your WordPress sites in one place Connect your WordPress sites to Modular DS, access them with one-click login, and manage updates, backups, security scans, uptime monitoring, and more in a single dashboard. Stay organized with tags and teams, and assign custom roles and permissions to collaborators. Bulk management and updates Install, update, activate, or delete plugins, themes, and WordPress versions across multiple websites at once (or one by one). The global updater also gives you a full picture of what’s happening across your sites: detected vulnerabilities, Update Copilot risk scores, warnings for abandoned plugins, and more, all from one place. Smarter, automated updates Choose how your updates run: as quick standard updates, as safe updates with before and after screenshots and instant rollbacks, or as smart automated updates that let you define when and under what conditions they should run. Pair it with Update Copilot, our AI-powered scoring system, to understand how risky a plugin update might be before applying it and make more informed decisions. You can also schedule one-time updates for a specific date and time, or simply hide updates you are not ready to apply. Whatever approach you prefer, Modular DS gives you more control and flexibility to safely keep your sites up to date. Backups and one-click restoration Schedule GDPR-compliant backups to safeguard your clients’ sites and data, or create one manually whenever you need. Choose between full or incremental backups and easily restore entire sites, files, or databases from Modular DS. Uptime monitoring Never get caught off guard by downtime. Get notified by email, WhatsApp, Slack, or Discord when any of your websites go down, before your clients even notice. Customize check frequency, response time, keyword detection, and alert settings to fit your workflow. Modular DS includes one of the most complete uptime monitor tools for WordPress. Security monitoring and management Modular DS includes vulnerability scans for plugins, themes, and WordPress core, with alerts up to 48 hours before issues are publicly disclosed. You also have malware scanning to check your sites’ files and database for malicious content, and admin user alerts to know whenever someone is added or removed as an administrator on any of your connected sites. On top of that, you get notified whenever something else requires your attention, from outdated PHP to expired SSL certificates. For teams that need more, our add-ons extend these capabilities. See the integrations section below for details. Broken link checker Run scheduled or on-demand scans to detect broken links and images across your sites. When broken internal links are found, create redirects to fix them without leaving Modular DS. Site migration, cloning, and staging Modular DS lets you migrate or clone any connected site in three ways: move it to another existing site in the platform, migrate it to a different server while keeping the same domain, or clone it to a new domain. You can also create staging environments on your own server to test changes before going live. Database optimization Clean up post revisions, spam comments, transients, orphaned tables, and more directly from Modular DS. No need for extra plugins. Keep your websites running smoothly while saving time and having a clear record of every optimization made. Client reports From winning new clients to keeping existing ones, Modular DS covers both ends of the reporting workflow. Before a client signs up, you can generate a pre-maintenance report to show everything their site needs: pending updates, detected vulnerabilities, site health issues, database optimizations, etc. Once they are on board, automatically generate and send regular maintenance reports that highlight the work you do behind each site. Add time logs, dates, and screenshots to showcase the full scope of your efforts, so clients understand the value of your service and keep paying for it. Both report types help you build trust, improve client retention, and turn your WordPress maintenance offering into recurring revenue. Integrations Modular DS integrates with Google Analytics, Search Console, WooCommerce, and PageSpeed, giving you an overview of your websites in one place and allowing you to include the data your clients care most about in your reports. To further strengthen your sites’ security, two add-ons extend what is included in every plan. Patch & Protect, powered by Patchstack, applies virtual patches and hardening rules to block known vulnerabilities and common attack methods as soon as they are detected, even before an official fix is available. And a malware add-on powered by Imunify Connect, which lets you run weekly and on-demand scans across your sites. Support that understands you Modular DS is the first site management platform with support in both English and Spanish. Whether you have a question or run into an issue, our team has over 10 years of WordPress experience and is here to help you.

Easily Transfer WordPress Site to New Host/Server/Domain Move single-site installation to another single-site server. Move WP single-site to existing multisite sub-site. Migrate the subsite to another multisite subsite. Migrate multisite sub-site to single-site. Migrate within WordPress admin. WordPress backup and restore packages within single-site or multisite. Backup WordPress subsite (in multisite). You can back up the WordPress database within admin before testing something and restoring it with one click. Cross-platform compatible (Nginx / Apache / Litespeed / Microsoft IIS / Localhost). Clone a single site and restore it to any server. Clone subsite in multisite and restore it as single-site or multisite. Supports legacy multisites. Debug package. Supports backup of the non-UTF8 single-site or multisite database. PRO Features Scheduled backups: Automatic backup support for multisite and single-site. Save time during migration with the direct site-to-site package transfer. Move the backup location outside the WordPress public directory for better security. Migrate or backup WordPress multisite main site. Encrypt WordPress database in backups for maximum data privacy. Encrypt the WordPress media directory inside the backup for better security. Encrypt plugin and theme files inside the backup/package for protection. Export and restore the backup package from Dropbox. Save and restore packages from and to Google Drive. Exclude plugins from the backup (or network-activated plugins if multisite). Exclude upload directory files from the backup to reduce the package size. Improved migrated site performance by excluding unused database tables created by inactive plugins. Create a new multisite subsite with a specific blog ID. Disable network maintenance in multisite so only the affected subsite is in maintenance mode. Configure migration parameters to optimize and tweak backup/migration packages. It includes all complete restoration options at your own choice and convenience. Full access to the settings screen to manage all basic and plugin advanced configurations. Migrate non-UTF8 database charset to standard UTF8 database charset (utf8mb4). Migrate UTF8 database charset (utf8mb4) to non-UTF8 database charset (edge case scenario). Documentation Prime Mover Documentation