Cloud Servers

We take a complete snapshot of your cloud server every night & keep the last two most recent backups on a separate, fault tolerant storage system. If something goes wrong with your server or you click a button that you shouldn't have (c'mon, we have all done that before!), then you can restore your own backup quickly & easily via our web interface.

Please note that depending on the size of your server, backups can take up to 60 minutes to restore. You can also restore backups to another cloud server instance if you ever need to ;)

Advanced / custom disaster recovery solutions can also be designed & implemented on request.

Important things to consider:

Our free automatic backups take regular snapshots of your entire server. Since we do not stop your server when taking a snapshot, booting from a backup is similar to rebooting after a non-graceful restart of your server.

While modern file systems & databases handle this scenario extremely well, you may want to take additional measures to guarantee a consistent state of your data, especially when running very active & write intensive database type systems. For example, with databases such as MySQL you can setup a cron to run a mysqldump to separate directory on the local file system to ensure it's data integrity.

As with any backup, we highly recommend that you check them on a regular basis to ensure that they are working & can be restored correctly.