It is very risky to keep your backup on the same hosting account because if there is ever a disaster in a data center, you could lose both, your backup data as well as online website data. That’s the major reason many people today are choosing to keep their backup data, over the internet, to an off-site storage facility.
There are many cheap and Affordable Web hosting providers online from which you can select any hosting plan according to your needs and where you can keep your mission critical data. Cost of fully managed hosting packages are very low, so it’s not a big deal to spend few pounds for your business website’s backup.
There are a several things you should remember before you start uploading the entire data of your hard drive from which some are as follows:-
1) Before using any Affordable Web hosting plans you should check SLA of hosting provider because many web hosts have explicit clauses prohibiting the use of your hosting accounts as an online backup device.
2) Always check the data before uploading copyrighted materials to your Affordable Web hosting account, you may face the risk of having your account suddenly terminated without notice.
3) Privacy and security is the most important things you should check before hosting your backup.
4) As FTP doesn’t support block-level incremental uploads like an online backup service would, your backups will take some more time. This could also slow down your internet connection and cause problems with your ISP. So before using Affordable web hosting package as a backup server, you can discuss with your hosting provider. There is a possibility that they can provide a better option/suggestions to you.
5) This method of backup only supports a single “point-in-time” file version so if you accidentally save over write an important file or get a virus, you’ll have no way of recovering your data.
In recent past, many new specialized online backup companies have appeared in the web market. There’s such a huge difference of cost and feature sets that you’re bound to find something that’s just right for your particular requirements. In fact, almost all web hosts today also offer online backup solutions.
Eukhost do provide online backup solution with their Affordable Web hosting and Email Hosting Plans. They use Rsync technology for backup. Rsync is one of the best backup tools available today. Rsync transfers only the changes in files, using the devilishly clever rsync algorithm. It calculates difference without needing both files to be present. By synchronizing only those files that have changed since the last backup, using rsync results in large bandwidth savings. As Eukhost provides fully managed hosting packages they can setup daily, weekly or monthly rsync crons as per client request to copy backup of accounts on their backup space.
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This post was written by admin on December 12, 2009
