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World Backup Day
http://www.worldbackupday.com/
31st March is World Backup Day, do keep backups!! they are very important
Get backup solutions from @mitgiB , @KuJoe or @Francisco .... people can add more to this list (if they are running some promo for the day, im unaware of it ... if they ARE do link here please)
- Hostigation Backups (https://www.hostigation.com/?page=Backup) starting at $4/quarter
- SecureDragon.net (http://www.securedragon.net/index.php?p=backup) starting $2.99/mo
- BuyVM.net / Frantech.ca (www.buyvm.net) starting $7.50/month
- Prometeus.net (https://www.prometeus.net/billing/cart.php?a=add&pid=17) one agent and 200GB of space will be $25/mo
All of the above are unique solutions on their own, all are raid protected, some are OpenVZ, some restrict the content and apps you can run on it etc etc
Bottomline: Backups are important, they should be part of your VPS/dedi fleet regardless of how unimportant your data may seem. It can save you hours!!!!
Comments
Just a coincidence?
Anonymous Threatens to Attack the Internet Sat., March 31
Well I hope they all are >_> I know tim's is, assuming kujoe's is also RAID5 or something of the sort.
The majority of everything you just linked to has no stock. But don't let that stop the circlejerk.
A shame they don't know about anycast.
If you guys offer a storage plan or know someone that does, by all means, bring it up. There's a lot of demand for 'em around these parts.
Francisco
Well SD has stock but thats not the point, the point is either you are using Amazon S3 or something else, keep backups
I do hope that @mitgiB and @Francisco come up with a plan to have some stock tomorrow
I download everything on my VPS that's updated and sync it to 4x2TB Raid 6 drives on my local network.
I also backup my computers there too. I don't trust other host with my data.
+1, feel free to share any other LEB provider who offers backup plans
I didn't get that feeling from my posting earlier this week regarding backup/storage plans here: http://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/2012/storagebackup-vps-plans
We're using RAID5 with 1 hot-spare (would have gone RAID6 but the controller card doesn't support it so that's why the hot-spare).
Well, talking of backup you may be interested on R1Soft CDP to backup dedi, kvm, vmware and xen hvm. Using the promotional code R150REC you can get a 50% recurring.
For example one agent and 200GB of space will be $25/mo
https://www.prometeus.net/billing/cart.php?a=add&pid=17
@Damian well there is a market for Backup plans BUT the issue is people do not care to spend money on it. And when the host runs away with their money and the service, they come here crying
Offer a backup plan and im interested too
@KuJoe nice!! keep up the good work
@prometeus cool but too expensive. I rather install amazon s3 library and connect to amazon s3 to push backups then use R1Soft
by the way a 10GB backup on s3 costs me $0.33/mo .... pretty cheap
Ok, so now we have four providers offering Backup VPSes (the fourth one is @prometeus ... updating post)
Not likely, stockpiling cash for a different idea for next month
@Asim: I was planning on offering it billed as actual usage.. probably something like 10 gigabytes for $2 per month, then 5 cents per gigabyte after that. The thread derailed into "I can get zillions of terabytes at this provider for eighty cents per month!" so I've dropped it for now.
I think they are different solution. I have cdp run 3/4 time a day on each shared hosting server and I can recover files from every snapshot for weeks. Today a restored files for a defaced site getting them a few hours before the defacement.
You can also integrate restore in cpanel to allow recover to users.
Honestly, if your backups are important, I wouldn't be putting them on any low-end provider of any kind. I've said it before, but you can get $25-30/month servers from WSI with plenty of storage space. If your data isn't worth $30/month, just use an external drive at home.
@mitgiB Ok, building a secret project ... are you?
@Damian well, I always listen to everybody and do what I want to do. Just recently I started off with a dedi server and installed KVM virtualization with SolusVM ontop just to experiment with it and see how I can benefit from it, still continuing the dedi even though most people in this very community asked me to go with cheaper options and some even proposed not to do that (and they were right, it was just investment with no return). The point is ....... Don't let anyone drive your business plan, you have a good idea, think and rethink over it and then shoot it out. You should have the resources to keep it running for several months even if you have less customers in the start. Im waiting for your sales thread on the backup VPS
@prometeus true that. Already Listed your offer in the initial thread
@subigo yes, thats another way to do it
backblaze doing backups @ $5 a month for unlimited everything
windows only tho
Get a low-end Windows VPS, transfer backups to Backblaze through it. Problem solved.
not enough bandwidth
That's a pretty brilliant way to get around that shortcoming - well done :P
Francisco
Back in my dialup days, it was known as world domination, $20 at a time
Please share where these backup boxes are also located. You dont want your live and backup data on the same location, right?
I'm about to launch a new backup service that none of you would be interested in.
The accounts start at about $25/year for 1gb space. LOL. Completely different market. For the market it will be reaching, it's really a great deal.
Good to know @speckl lol
@speckl: What market is it that makes that a great deal?
The small business market. On average, these people are spending over $10/mo for hosting their tiny websites. I know A LOT of people paying $50/mo just to host 4 page websites and email for 3 people. They pay because they don't know any better. The services is geared towards those individuals that deal with local web developers that have zero skill and charge outlandish prices.
@speckl: Ah, I wish you luck on your endeavor then. We've been trying to break into that market since 2003. We started our VPS market 10 months ago and it's surpassed 9 years of small business hosting.