Automated Backups – Does your host do it?

At one stage or another, you are going to need a backup of your information. Whether it is due to data corruption or due to human error in deleting a file that was needed, backups can be a life saver.

Hands-on Web Hosting understands this importance and have made every effort to accomodate users in their backup needs. Inside the control panel with Hands-on Web Hosting you have the ability to create a backup and download it to your computer. You can also FTP the backup to another location or another server if you wanted to, but now we’ve gone one step further!

Automated Backups using R1Soft’s CDP Backup software! What good is it to make a backup on the same server where corruption may have occurred? This is the common backup procedure with most hosting companies.  Very few make backups of your account, let alone backups EVERY HOUR and stores them on a separate server.

Hands-on Web Hosting makes a backup to a different machine and has configured the control panel to allow you to restore just a single file or folder or the entire site. You pick what you want, click a few buttons and the rest is automated. You’ll be back in business in no time.

What about the MySQL Database you ask? – Not a problem, we have you covered there too. Along with our normal file backups, we also make MySQL Database backups. Restore a single table or the entire database, it’s your choice. The restoration of MySQL Databases are currently not automated so a support ticket must be generated through our Helpdesk for database restoration.

We BACKUP EVERY 4 HOURS on our shared web hosting plans!

Some web hosting companies offer backup, but very few offer R1Soft Backup or Continuous Data Protection!  A web host that makes a backup every couple of days (or weeks) really doesn’t care much about your data!  What if the server you are on crashes, can you afford to lose out on your online store’s orders for the day?  What if a web designer accidently deletes a file, do you have a backup stored elsewhere?

At Hands-on, we treat site backups as an extension of your website.  It’s just as important to have a reliable backup as it is to have a reliable site.  With R1Soft backup, you can restore a file, a folder or the entire website with just a click of a button.  Restore only what you need – retaining your database information without losing anything.

We provide this service free of charge on all shared web hosting packages.  If you have a dedicated server (even at another facility), you can still use our R1Soft backup software to make secure backups of your data.  Contact our support desk for more information at http://support.handsonwebhosting.com