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Cloudflare had a rough run of outages touching R2 in late 2025 and again in 2026. If your backups live only on R2, I think it is worth asking what happens when it goes down. Here is a simple way to add a second copy, and the one habit that actually makes it useful.
Restic backups fail silently more often than loudly — a flaky network, an expired token, a full disk — and cron won't tell you. Here's how to wire a self-hosted Healthchecks dead man's switch into a restic backup script, and the single setup mistake that quietly defeats the whole point.
Automate MySQL/MariaDB backups to Cloudflare R2 with rclone and a cron or systemd timer — and, unlike most guides, actually verify the backup restores before you need it to.
A practical, cost-checked guide to backing up a single VPS to Cloudflare R2 with restic — real commands, the actual monthly bill for a typical Laravel/WordPress-sized server, and the one usage pattern that quietly blows past R2's free tier.
A step-by-step guide to offloading your WordPress media library to Cloudflare R2 — bucket setup, custom domain, S3 API credentials, and two ways to connect WordPress, with real 2026 pricing.
Real 2026 pricing for running a personal project, a small WordPress site, a Laravel/PHP SaaS, and a small business site in the cloud — VPS, storage, backups, domain, email, and monitoring costs, broken down honestly.
