How to remotely backup your domain FTP

Posted on March 15, 2008
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Remotely backup your domain to our FTP backup service

Shane, my partner in hosting and I have about a half dozen servers across the web with various providers we market as Click Once Hosting. A few days ago after considering our expenses and each servers usage had come up with the idea that one server we have gets literally no traffic and that rather than try to fill it with websites and site hosting maybe we could use it to provide a way for people to remotely backup their sites on a scheduled bases.

Now the idea behind remote backups is to provide a secure way for people to backup their data from their existing domain by providing only ftp accounts and blocking all other IP’s from connecting as to avoid any unwanted traffic. Since cPanel or Plesk will not be needed we decided to start offering this feature to people interested in keeping backups of their data and set a pricing schedule based on bandwidth.

But is there a benefit for using this type of method for backing up data? I think so, one thing I’ve always been lucky enough to do is regularly backup my domains once a week and the database once a day to my local Linux box that sits right here next to my work station. Facts are facts and servers don’t last forever. Hard drive failure, viruses, hosting company loses power or doesn’t pay their bills and goes out of business among other hosting hazards are ever present.  So this solution to me seems like one people would be interested in having and I’ll be promoting it openly even though we generally do not provide open hosting this is a service we will make available to anyone interested. That leads us to yet another service we now offer.

Hosting your site on a mirror hosting server.

Shane and I had discussed taking our largest server with Rack Space in Texas and using it for mirror hosting for companies that need to have a backup solution for directing traffic in the event of high usage and or failure on the primary domain.  The facts are, many small companies that suffer from a virus or other tragic event regarding their domain NEVER come back.  Statistics show that most companies who lose their website having put time, energy and countless types of resources into never make a second attempt if all is lost.  Although many products and or site solutions do provide database backup utilities, some things are only salvageable by having an offsite backup or archive that may include the actual software running the site or simple things like media elements and documents.

Since the name of the game is rapid recovery, most companies that can afford mirror hosting use mirror hosting in having some redundancy to their products and services websites.  We wanted a way for the small entrepreneur or blogger to have a similar feature without breaking him in half.  Now many would argue another server or hosting provider will work just fine, why bother with a solution that is specifically setup for mirrors.  The simple fact is the risk factor involved in hosting mirrors on shared hosting servers that are not specifically setup for this service.  Many potential hazards can present itself causing sites to index incorrectly or even worse.  I personally maintain a mirror of all my blogs and all my sites on a server elsewhere that I update changes to daily in the event of an issue.  I simply go and switch my DNS to the new location should something happen to this server.  Here is the current pricing structure we have setup.

Remote FTP Backup (NOT HTTP WEB ACCESSIBLE)

  • Basic plan up to 3500 meg per month $5 per /mo
  • Silver plan up to 10 gb per month $7 per /mo
  • Bronse plan up to 25 gb per month $8 per /mo
  • Gold plan up to 50 gb per moth $9 per /mo
  • Corporate level packages and Realtor solutions where there are large databases are quoted on a per client basis.

DNS Domain Mirror Solution

  • Mirror 1 plan up to 30 GB space per month $6 per /mo
  • Mirror 2 plan up to 50 GB space per month $6 per /mo
  • Mirror 3 plan up to 75 GB space per month $10 per /mo
  • Mirror 4 plan up to 100 GB space per moth $12 per /mo
  • Corporate level packages and Realtor solutions where there are large databases are quoted on a per client basis.

I’ve not written sales material on this yet or even tried to promote it but I will get to that later in the week.  So please, if you need this service please do not hesitate to contact us.

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