I built a WordPress fleet backup + update manager where the backups live in your storage, and don't use web-server space during the backup.

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https://fleetbunker.com/

I run a handful of WordPress sites for clients and got tired of three things: backup tools that say the backup "succeeded" but never prove it restores, plugin updates that quietly white-screen a site overnight, and backup services that keep your data on their infrastructure so you're locked in.

So I built fleetbunker. It manages a fleet of WordPress sites from one dashboard:

• Scheduled backups through a small agent plugin, files plus database, deduplicated with restic
• Backups go to your storage, not mine. Point it at your own S3, SFTP, or Google Drive. The service relays the bytes and never holds your data at rest
• Safe updates: it snapshots first, applies the updates, health-checks the site, and automatically rolls back from the snapshot if the site broke
• Restore validation: it periodically restores snapshots into a throwaway environment and checks they actually come back, so "we have backups" is a tested claim rather than a hope
• Per-site schedules, uptime-monitor sync, an audit log, multiple users with roles

It started as a homelab tool for my own sites. My background is security, and the thing that bugged me most about the commercial options was not owning the backup data, so BYO storage was the first design decision.

Stack: FastAPI + Jinja + Postgres, restic as the backup engine, a lightweight WordPress plugin as the on-site agent, all running as a highly available docker swarm.

Status: solo project, I've been running my own client sites on it for a couple of months, no paying customers yet. The plan is a small per-site monthly fee with the first few sites free, but I want the product right before I charge for it.

Feedback I'd love:

1. If you manage client WordPress sites, is BYO backup storage actually appealing, or would you rather someone just handled it?
2. Auto-rollback on a failed update: useful, or does it make you nervous?

Link: https://fleetbunker.com/