You can be one of the first people to be notified — and gain early access — by subscribing right now.

You can read more about why VaultPress and Jetpack are the ideal WordPress plugins for small business websites over on the Jetpack blog.

To take advantage of this offer, just use the code SMALLBIZ at checkout, and of course, if you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

We’re now even more pleased to announce that we’ve made a small but important addition to our cheapest plan: the Personal Plan now also includes priority support from our Happiness Engineers.

For more information about the change and the plan itself read the full announcement on the Jetpack blog.

We’ve joined forces with Jetpack to bundle our features into plans that provide you with more services for the same — or lower — prices.

The New Plans

We now offer three plans: Personal, Premium, and Professional.

At $3.50 per month, the Jetpack Personal plan includes everything the old VaultPress Lite plan used to — at a price that’s 30% lower. You can save even more if you choose the annual plan for $39 (instead of $42 for monthly billing). Jetpack Personal includes:

• Daily automated backups.
• A 30-day backup archive (with unlimited storage space).
• Spam protection by Akismet.

Jetpack Premium is our most popular plan for ensuring that your site, data, and content are safe. At $9 per month, the plan now costs 40% less than the old VaultPress Basic plan. Here, too, we offer more savings on a yearly purchase, bringing the price down to $99 (instead of $108). Jetpack Premium includes everything in Jetpack Personal, as well as:

• Daily, automated malware scanning.
• Dedicated security support from our Happiness Engineers.
• Limited use (13Gb) of video CDN.

Finally, our top-of-the-range plan: Jetpack Professional includes a suite of advanced features for your site, from extra security measures to hands-on SEO management. The $29 per month subscription costs the same as the old VaultPress Premium plan, but now includes several bonus features. A yearly purchase comes with significant savings — $299, down from $348 per year. Jetpack Professional includes all the features in Jetpack Personal and Premium, as well as:

• On-demand malware scanning — going beyond the daily scans included in the Premium plan.
• One-click threat resolution.
• SEO tools for your site.
• Unlimited use of video CDN.

The New Installation Process

One of the main benefits of being part of Jetpack is that installing and activating VaultPress has become a whole lot simpler. You no longer need to manually install plugins, copy and paste registration keys, and verify that your backups are working.

Just as before, when you select a plan you will be prompted to type in your site URL and create an account. However, by installing Jetpack — a straightforward step that’s part of the checkout process — we can automatically configure VaultPress, Akismet, and all the relevant registration keys and settings on your site!

What now?

Take a look at our new plans page to read more about the features we offer and our commitment to keep your site safe and secure: whatever risks the web might pose to your site, we’ve got you covered.

If you have any questions feel free to contact us — we’ll do our best to help you out!

You can protect yourself by upgrading to the latest version of Jetpack 4.0.3, under Dashboard → Updates in your WordPress dashboard.

With our release of version 1.8.3 of the VaultPress plugin, we have implemented a fix for this threat in order to protect any VaultPress customers that are running an outdated version of Jetpack. We automatically upgraded as many sites as we could to this new version of VaultPress. 

The security update fixed a vulnerability that allowed an attacker to exploit the way that some Jetpack shortcodes are processed. This bug has existed since Jetpack 2.0, released in November 2012. Thank you to Marc-Alexandre Montpas from Sucuri for his research and responsible disclosure of this issue. According to the Jetpack team, there is no evidence of this threat being used out in the wild. With this announcement though, exploits will begin to occur and it’s crucial updates are taken care of!

To make sure you are protected, please review these resources:

Jetpack 4.0.3 Security Update – FAQs
How to install the Jetpack 4.0.3 Security Update

As always, if you have any questions or concerns, drop us a line!

We encourage everyone to head over to Dashboard → Updates in their WordPress dashboard, and click “Update Now”. Once you’re running WordPress 4.5.2, you’re protected from these vulnerabilities.

We also recommend that you take this moment to ensure you’re running the latest and greatest version of VaultPress. You can do so by heading back to Dashboard → Updates in your WordPress dashboard. If an older version of VaultPress is listed on this page, you’ll have the opportunity to upgrade to the latest version with a single click. You can also find our plugin in the Plugin Directory.

By running the latest versions of WordPress, VaultPress, and all your themes and plugins, you help to ensure that your site remains safe, secure, and speedy! As always, if you have any questions, drop us a line.

We have attempted to automatically upgrade all of our customers to the newest version of WordFence. You can verify that you’re running the latest version of WordFence Security on the Plugins page in your WordPress dashboard. We also added this security threat to our security scanner so anyone who begins using VaultPress after today will be notified of this threat.

If you have a site using WordFence but do not have VaultPress installed, you can protect yourself by upgrading under Dashboard → Updates in your WordPress dashboard.

As always, if you have any questions, drop us a line!

You can protect yourself by upgrading to the latest version of Akismet 3.1.5, under Dashboard → Updates in your WordPress dashboard.

We have released VaultPress 1.7.8 which will protect your site from this vulnerability. We have also attempted to automatically upgrade our customers to this newer version of VaultPress and Akismet. You can verify that you’re running the latest version of Akismet 3.1.5 on the Plugins page in your WordPress dashboard.

As always, if you have any questions, drop us a line!

You can protect yourself by upgrading to the latest version of Jetpack 3.7.2, under Dashboard → Updates in your WordPress dashboard.

The security updates fixed a vulnerability, reported by Sucuri, that allowed an attacker to exploit the contact form present in Jetpack through a specially crafted malicious email address. A vulnerability was also reported by Jaime Delgado Horna of Listae that showed that Jetpack version 3.7.0 is vulnerable to an information disclosure vulnerability in certain hosting configurations.

Both of these threats have been addressed in the recent update.

We have attempted to automatically upgrade any VaultPress customers that are running an outdated version of Jetpack. You can verify that you’re running the latest version of Jetpack 3.7.2, on the Plugins page in your WordPress dashboard.

As always, if you have any questions, drop us a line!

To help keep sites using VaultPress secure, we have released a hotfix to proactively protect our users. A hotfix is essentially an immediate security fix delivered by the plugin to plug a vulnerability found elsewhere (either in WordPress core or another plugin). For those who haven’t upgraded yet, it will provide protection before you are able to. Finally, we are also e-mailing all owners of affected websites with upgrade instructions.

We encourage everyone to head over to Dashboard → Updates in their WordPress dashboard, and click “Update Now”. Otherwise, you can download WordPress 4.3.1 directly. Once you’re running WordPress 4.3.1, you are protected from these vulnerabilities.

As a friendly reminder, VaultPress recommends enabling automatic WordPress updates if they are disabled on your website. By running the latest versions of WordPress, VaultPress, and all your themes and plugins, you help to ensure that your site remains safe, secure, and speedy! As always, if you have any questions, drop us a line.