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Yep, and also since we are in the US, we do not charge VAT tax to EU customers. You may still be able to reduce your tax liability as a business expense, but you wouldn't be paying any tax. We can't provide tax advice though, and you should assume that we don't know what we are talking about in regard to the matter as it relates to you. If that sounds disclaimery it's because it is

today we want to share with the community our upcoming release "Auto Backup System" . this plugin is a revolutionary backup system for Blesta, it has some features that is not exist in Blesta and either in other Competitors. the New Plugin is making backups in two sense, Database and Files, then they are send to cloud storages system like dropbox and gdrive, amazon s3 (more storages will be added ) . some features - The backup System store the backup files and database in upload directory . - The database backup is made with a native php function and not by the mysqldump command that a lot of hosting providers disable it for accounts . - The backup system send files/database to configured remote cloud storages . - Option to exclude tables from database . we have the intention to add this features after the first release : 1 - Email Summary for the backup done 2 - Add Microsoft Drive as Cloud Storage 3 - Option To restore Files, Database the plugin already done, and we are testing it in live production now to see the results . What do you think? any feature you want to see in this plugin?

It's a business expense plain and simple. I'm from NZ so I have no idea on UK tax but you should be able to claim the business expense so you would not be taxed on that income at all as you didn't make income that turnover it went to business expenses. Not sure if you can just call up HMRC (I think they deal with Tax in UK?) but if you can give them a call and ask how you claim business expenses. Should be the same as you claim all other expenses eg hosting/servers/power/phone/room rental (even in your own house).

@Blesta Addons When might this be ready for public use?

You're not charged VAT unless you buy from Licensepal, then you can reclaim it back.

Ok, got it. Offline payments module installed. Universal module installed Package created through universal module. Payment method - ACH activated Order page !!! at the bottom: check Offline payment

retention period is included in our first release for local backup only . then we will add it to cloud storage instances. This already included in our plugin, we have two crons, 1 for database that has interval from min to 24 hours, so you can set every 3 hours or hours ect ... for files we have time, that mean the backup is run 1 time a day, also you can disable the cron to disable the files backups . we have the intention to have a internal settings for files to be (weekly or monthly ..ect ) exlude folders is not implemented yet, but we have thre option for backup folders : Root Blesta Directory Uploads Directory Blesta Logs Directory so you can check wich of them are included in the backup, so you can exclude Uploads directory that include the support ticket attachements. Our Plugin is totally bulot to be more flexible in term of options and settings, so you can set a backup rule to include only database and send it to Dropbox, and other rule to include files to a custom local folder or Dropbox ect ...

In 4.3.0 you can due to the EU GDPR. Packages no.

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this is something I really want, retention period in one form or another. I have Blesta backing up to an account in a different location and it hits 20gb often before I remember to remove the old backups. Apart from file changes for support desk attachments I don't think the files change that often at all, are you able to have different period backups for files and database, for example? Backup frequency: Files - Weekly/daily/hourly etc Database - Daily/hourly etc Or whatever period is selected Also for the file backup are you able to set a folder(s) to exclude as well? We don't really worry about the email attachments files for the support desk and as time goes by that will just get larger and larger to a point where we would not want to be backing it up all the time, there is no reason really not to but there is also no reason to. We do full cPanel backup before we make any changes so this backup is just for disaster recovery and email attachments don't rank for recovery. Looking forward to this please do let us know when you finish it.

I've created a task for us to look into this in the future, CORE-2736

Version 1.8.4 released.