We plan to buy a new backupserver, where we want to store the backups of our servers.
In the past we had the problem that the disk usage is quite high that the IOwait value was always very high.
Can someone recomend what kind of hardware would be good for a backupserver? We had supermicro servers in the past and would like to continue with them.
What disks are recomended? SCSI, SATA, SAS?
What type of CPU should be used?
GeekLayer is looking in to expanding in to the UK - We want to offer VPSs in the UK, but to be honest, I have no idea who people consider the SoftLayer of the UK hosting industry - Who has the best rep around WHT with reasonable(ish) pricing for something like a core2quad with 8gb ram and 2tb+ bandwidth?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI've been with Micfo for some years now (3? 4?) and they've in the past been fine. Recently - the last three months - they've been having hosting issues, slow speeds, I can only access their site intermitantly (my site's up fine, the micfo.com one is intermitant to be clear - makes opening tickets a pain) and I've sometime got STMP timeout errors when sending email.
Today's last straw was a cpanel upgrade which needed a tech (and several hours of waiting) to sort out, because it nuked my addin domains and subdomains, as well as breaking me sending email for some time.
So:
I'm looking to spend in the region of USD9.99 a month. I'm used to cpanel and would prefer to keep it, but I'm flexible. Reliability wins out over bandwidth/disk space afaik. I'd be looking to run Twiki if at all possible (you can on Micfo, even if it a bit of a pain to install), as well as Wordpress.
I have been trying to find a lower priced host for a while now, and came across an offer posted for Apt host, when i visited their website I found that they had more then I could ask for at about 32 usd per year after coupon.
I will be hosting several sites, some of which contain brief profanity or legal adult content, However don't really have a real need for heavy disk space, and since my sites are fairly new even bandwidth is not that important for the time being. They will be running mainly on joomla or wordpress.
Anyways after trying to do a search for a review on apt host i can barely find anything.
Has anyone here used them, and how do they rate them, additionally if u have any other advice on hosts that provide simiar packages it would be great to hear ur feed back.
what is the fast and best way?
View 4 Replies View Relatedsetting up a server running ZFS as a backup server. My only problem is that it's very new to me, and naturally I'm skeptical of it's redundancy capabilities etc, I don't want to get burned. Anyone used ZFS, what's your experience with it?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI setup one Linux server, I want use SSH transfer my website data (already .tar) to another Linux server. May I know what SSH command to use and transfer my file to another Linux server?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'd like to know, how do you backup a cPanel dedicated server to a remote FTP server? WHM's backup only allows you to backup the client's accounts, but not the cPanel settings, or the stuff in /etc?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI'm looking for a dedicated machine that will be used solely for rsync backups. (I don't want to use a shared rsync solution)
Requirements are simple, at least 1TB HD and < $99 a month. Should have a decent amount of RAM and processor, but other than that, I would think any reputable provider would do.
Most places I find a suitable server for $49 and then see it's another $50/mo. to upgrade to a 1TB hard drive. Hard to believe the markup for these larger drives considering they go for, what $89 now?
I have dedicated server for web hosting selling.
This days i will buy this server [url]
when i buy server on santrex what i need to setup on that server to he work like backup server for my other web hosting servers?
Wich software and something else?
We are small web hosting company. We are currently looking for backup solution which can instantly recover everything back as quick as possible.
View 14 Replies View Relatedi'm running trixbox on vmware on my home vista (because i need the media center) box.. perfecto..
Anyway, i'm thinking about setting up a virtual box just as a backup server (ns3.xxxx.com?) for times like now when my server decides to fall out of the sky and nobody at dedicated now feels like responding. I'll try not to bring that issue to the forum but point is, has anybody ever used a VPS as a backup server? it sounds pretty simple actually if i could get one right now i'm game since without their e-mail my clients are helpless and they are blowing up my phone as i type.
Other question is regarding e-mails (the primary concern), many of these guys (my clients) still love squirl mail, how can i keep the boxes on either server synced? so when one is down the other 'continues'?
I have a hosting server with 400 sites on it, how do i back up all my database, files,accounts,etc..(eveything)?
I want to download the backup to my PC..
backup server for 4 VPS that I have, space about 400 giga.
where can I get it and what is the price range?
Time(GMT): 08:00 pm, My server takes a daily backup , at that time all my Client’s forum down(PHP)! why ? I do not know .!! it takes approximately 15 min.
It comes like this:
(There seems to have been a problem with the ×*×* *×*× database. Please try again by clicking the Refresh button in your web browser. An E-Mail has been dispatched to our Technical Staff, whom you can also contact if the problem)
Is that possible to backup and restore whole server using CentOS (Red Hat based Linux)? I have only remote access to the server.
View 10 Replies View RelatedI currently have two VPS servers, each with 2 DNS names running on them as follows:
dns1.mydomain.com (on Server A)
dns2.mydomain.com (on Server A)
dns3.mydomain.com (on Server B)
dns4.mydomain.com (on Server B)
I have websites running on each server and I would like to have something set-up so that when one server goes down, the other server displays a nice page saying the website is unavailable currently and will be back shortly - you know, something nicer then the normal "Server Not Found" default messages.
What is the best way to do this?
If I have CLIENTDOMAIN.COM and put them on Server A and they use all 4 DNS server names, will the top two DNS names always be used by people finding the website, and the bottom two choices only be used if the top two can't be found?
I believe I have to create an account on Server B for them as well, just only placing the temporary page within the account, rather then a whole copy of their website. Correct?
I just purchased a new server with 4 hotswap HDD of 250GB each and reload with new CentOS 5 without any host control panel.
The purpose is to backup all my other Cpanel servers data remotely. All my Cpanel servers are fully managed servers. This is the first time i'm going to do all things by myself, so I'm really a newbie. Please don't advise me to hire a server admin because I end up learning nothing I need to learn..
1. My first step now is to secure & harden the server.
- Can anyone mind to share with me valueable knowledge of basic server security & hardening? I was also thinking to use sudo root password which my serveradmin actually did but I don't know how. But su - access level would be OK too.
- I also need to install firewall and close all kind of port and block all SSH connection from all kind of IP except my server & my own IP address only. Can anyone provide me a guide?
2. Secondly what I need is to install FTPd and create user for each hard drive with 2 directory inside.
/sda/server1/
/sda/server2/
/sdb/server3/
/sdb/server4/
/sdc/server5/ (reserved for future server)
/sdc/server6/ (reserved for future server)
/sdd/server7/ (reserved for future server)
/sdd/server8/ (reserved for future server)
Does anyone knows where to find documentation how do install ftpd and how to setup user pointed to the specific directory.
How do you handle the backups on your server?
I just got a new dedicated server and our server does automatic backups, but I think it only saves to the existing hard drive. How frequently do you back up? I think the standard is every Sunday or Sunday/Wed depending on your traffic load.
Where do you put your backups? A remote FTP server? A second hard drive?
Any recommendations for a cheap backup server? Budget less than $50.
Either a 500GB or 1TB drive.
Don't recommend those backup services like BQ. I can get a whole server for cheaper than their prices.
The only one I've come across is this Atom:
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their Linux VPS? I would like to know how to do this if possible.
View 0 Replies View RelatedWhat type of servers would you recommend us to use and what software also should we use.
Am not sure about the software part.
how to take backup of websites' data using Robocopy in Windows?
I am running Hosting Controller control panel on my servers.
I have a dedicated server and I was wondering if there is a fast/easy/uncomplicated way to perform a full backup of all the accounts and its database?
It is based on linux, mysql and php platform.
suggest me good backup server and not very costly too. I just required ftp and possibly web interface to check for disk usage.... I required around 40GB of disk space.
View 10 Replies View Relatedwe going to running a hosting company
but not sure how to manage the backup server
Server A = 10 host accounts
Server B = 15 host accounts
Server Backup use rsync to get 25 account
will it be work?
and each domain the name server
ns1.host.com < - Server A
ns2.host.com < - Server A
ns3.host.com < - Server B
ns4.host.com < - Server B
ns5.host.com < - Server Backup
ns6.host.com < - Server Backup
www.abc.com
ns1.host.com < - Server A
ns2.host.com < - Server A
ns5.host.com < - Server Backup
ns6.host.com < - Server Backup
if server A down, so auto point to backup server
so is it work?
I am really thinking of upgrade my dedi server, but since its from a IDE disk to a SATA, I can´t move the IDE to the new system.
Is there a way to backup the server disk to your
local computer? FTP ?
Is there any solution to automatically take server backups (daily) to your desktop.
View 6 Replies View RelatedWondering what the most cost-effective and efficient way of building up a bulk backup server. I'm colocating some equipment and will have a private network.
I have a full cab, and only a few servers in it, so lots of room to spare.
Now this will originally just be used for my own users, but I need ease-of-use and expandability. For example, I can load it up with lots of cheap SATA drives, and a raid card. However, what do I actually do on the software end? Installing Linux and setting up rsync crons is the easy part, but what about permissions? Is there an easy way to create users?
i just lease a server that comes with 2 hard drive.
i want to make use of both hard drive as fully dedicated backup server to backup my other server via ftp.
i have no problem with first hard drive as I can easily create the ftp user via directadmin to /home/backup1
the thing i am having problem is now, i've mounted the /dev/sdb1 as /backup2
now the question is, how am i able to create a FTP account (in DirectAdmin) pointing it to /backup2 ? Or how do I do it in ssh command?