Choosing a backup solution for your dedicated server
Question: I am looking for a backup solution for my dedicated server. What are my options?
Answer: There are three common options that dedicated server managers typically use. All of them have their benefits and drawbacks.
1. Web hosting company. Often times,the company that owns and houses your server also offers remote backup servers at an additional price. The benefits are that you generally do not have to maintain the backup server, although you may have to do some minor setup to prepare it for backup. You also can depend on the established uptime and reliability of your web hosting provider.
There are a few drawbacks. They will most likely charge a monthly fee for the service, which can add significant cost, depending on the disk space and features you need. You will also have to keep your backup server secure and manage it yourself. And the most significant drawback is that, if something goes horribly wrong with your web host, you could lose both your server and its backup.
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Tag: backup, data center, dedicated server, uptime, web hosting
Back it up once, back it up twice
If you own an Internet business and haven’t backed-up your data lately, you’re simply encouraging a disaster waiting to happen. Whether you own a dozen servers or have a small shared hosting account, at any time something could go wrong and your data could become history.
Why should you care about backing-up? According to a government study, a staggering 93% of companies that lose their data for a period longer than ten days end up filing for bankruptcy within a year. Of that number, half file immediately.
Yet many people do not make back-ups, or expect their web host to do so for them. All reputable hosts archive data regularly, but this is at the server level. They generally do not permit customer access to these back-ups. I’ve heard many horror stories over the years about a site being hacked or a web host closing where the victim failed to appropriately back-up his data.
Do yourself a favor and avert disaster by performing regular back-ups. It may not be immediately useful, but some day you will need the back-up and be thankful for it.
Tag: back up, backup, data, data security, data storage, redundancy