[actuator]

This becomes very difficult as your data grows. If you live in AWS world, imagine periodic snapshotting from EBS, S3, RDS(and other data stores), EFS etc. For most people a different DC of the same cloud provider should be enough. If you have to put this into a different cloud provider it is a big cost drain and difficult to manage let alone if you want to have your own physical backups.

[citiguy]

AWS has tools around this (lifecycle manager) that you can easily leverage for simple site backups. Or you can roll your own, honestly it is not that hard to take rolling snapshots.

Obviously hosting providers do not make it easy to extract your data because that's their vendor lock.