Bqbackup Alternatives
Aug 28, 2008i've been having huge problems with bqbackup, and now i'm looking for alternatives...
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BQBackup ...
Aug 1, 2008We have used BQBackup for one year, but last month there is problems on backup server, we have send 3 emails to bqinternet, but got answer only for one.
info from shell of BQBackup server:
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/da2s1a 1.9T 1.9T -46K 100% /
$ ls -la
-rwxrwxrwx 1 koriakine koriakine 563 Oct 29 2006 backreceive.php
$ cp backreceive.php b.php
/usr/home3: write failed, filesystem is full
cp: b.php: No space left on device
$ date
Tue Jul 29 17:42:38 UTC 2008
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/da2s1a 1.9T 1.9T -2.0K 100% /
$ date
Fri Aug 1 21:40:20 UTC 2008
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/da2s1a 1.9T 1.9T 12K 100% /
backup server ip is: 208.122.4.34 (OS FreeBSD, not Solaris!)
BQBackup?
Nov 15, 2008I signed up and paid for services from BQBackup.
But I have never gotten an email with my welcome details or login details on how to use it. I even emailed the sales and haven't gotten a reply.
How long does it normally take?
BQBackup
Jan 15, 2007Has anyone ever used www.BQBackup.com how do you reinstall the data?
View 3 Replies View RelatedBqbackup Account Down
Apr 11, 2008My bqbackup account is completely down at this time. I can not access SSH, FTP nothing.
I sent email directly to Scott and to support too. My emails was send 2 hours ago. No reply yet.
I am a new client of bqbackup, so I have not any experience with them. So my doubth is if this kind of problem is normal and if 2 hours without reply of support is normal too?
Review On BQBackup
Jun 2, 2008I have been a relatively silent member here; heck, my last review was about 3 years back. As things turned out, I am still with Pair Hosting. Their service has been exemplary and the downtime zero. I really don't mind paying a premium price for the peace-of-the-mind factor. Several upgrades later, I have been on a dedicated server since about 2 years.
Our website - TeamBHP - has grown consistently and with that, the disc usage shot up exponentially. In fact, after we allowed forum attachments, our hard disk usage shot up to 60GB (and counting). Realising that its no longer possible for me to download a backup every weekend, I searched for offsite backup solutions on webhostingtalk. After some consideration, I got in touch with Mr. Scott Burns who replied promptly, with clarifications to my many queries. In fact, he even went out of the way in helping me set up automated backup scripts on my server (I ain't code friendly). The experience so far has been splendid and the backups work like a charm. BQbackups pricing is pretty reasonable considering the high quality of service that they provide.
Just wanted to say thanks to all of you at webhostingtalk as it is due to your reviews that I found both Pair & BQBackup. Keep the good work up!
No Support From Bqbackup
Aug 27, 2008I have been having alot of problems with BQbackup, amonth and a half ago it was storage problems, but right now the back ups for two servers are sporadic - for some reason it is only backing up random accounts, and not consistently. This is a huge problem - I have contacted support@bqbackup and scott@, over the course of a week and a half, but no response.
The FTP connection to the remote server just appears to hang when attempting to store the backup file. I stopped CSF for testing purposes and the backups are still uploading random data/time(173Mb, 25Mb, 140Mb). The server has the same firewall setup as the other servers.
If anyone knows of a reason this might be happening, or how to get bqbackup to answer emails,
Contacting BQBackup
Jul 9, 2008I just made a purchase for BQBackup but did not get any replies yet. Sent an email few hours ago but to no avail.
View 7 Replies View RelatedBQBackup - What To Backup
Apr 18, 2008I've just started using BQBackup and am currently just backing up my /home/ directories.
However I'm wondering if there's any point in updating *everything*? Because isn't mostly everything else server-related stuff that'll get restored in the case of a drive failure (etc)?
Maybe I've worded that badly. Although if there was a drive failure, a VPS host would have to set-up the basics of the server (including Apache, PHP, MySQL etc), right? Hence all that you'd need to do (in a worst case scenario) is backup the /home/ directories?
Plus if you were to move to a new host, you wouldn't want to upload directories like /usr/, /var/ and /etc/ as it might mess up the system?
BQBackup Slow
Nov 10, 2008My account in bqbackup is very slow. Somebody here have the same issue?
View 14 Replies View RelatedBQbackup Transference Rate
Jul 28, 2008I am seeing bqbackup transference rate when I use rsync very slow as:
18.72kB/s
I think this is very slow. What rate you have?
RSync W/ Windows- With SSH Keys & BQBackup
Jul 22, 2008TLDR version:
when populating and attempting to write keys to authorized_keys I'm receiving the following error:
Quote:
Could not create directory '/home/Administrator/.ssh'
Long version:
I've been grinding my wheels with this for a long time now. Basically I'm attempting to get rsync set up to backup some data directories on my Windows 2k3 Server through a batch file with task scheduler to bqbackup. I've been back and forth with both Scott and Rsync.net's tech support about this issue - both of which have been great... but essentially keep hitting the same impasse with Scott appearing to have hung his hat stating he's not familiar enough with windows and rysnc.net telling me to wait for their GUI client that should be launching "soon." In the meantime I'm just running the backup manually until I can get this key issue figured out.
Here's what's going on:
I've been mainly using BQ's Guide and Rsync's Guide to try and accomplish this.
After executing ssh-keygen -t rsa -N ''
I receive the following message:
Quote:
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (/home/Administrator/.ssh/id_rsa):
If I accept the default value it gives me I receive this error:
Quote:
Could not create directory '/home/Administrator/.ssh'.
Open /home/Administrator/.ssh/id_rsa failed: Not a directory.
Saving the key failed: /home/Administrator/.ssh/id_rsa.
Now my thoughts were this was occurring because my %homepath% is actually:
Quote:
c:documents and settingsadministrator.DOMAIN
(DOMAIN replacing actual text)
I'm able to change the default path location and create the RSA file elsewhere using the cygdrive format... so when prompted for the path to save I instead input:
Quote:
/cydrive/c/docume~1/administrator.DOMAIN/
and am able to create the RSA file... so mission accomplished... so far, I believe I'm past this, the snafu is now occurring on writing these keys to the authorized_keys file on BQBackup...
Quote:
C:Program FilescwRsyncin>rsync -av "/cydrive/c/documents and
settings/administrator.DOMAIN/.ssh/id_rsa.pub"
<login>@<host>:.ssh/authorized_keys
Could not create directory '/home/Administrator/.ssh'.
The authenticity of host '<host> (<ip>)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is 18:02:d9:95:06:a9:70:74:86:b7:76:41:f6:71:a0:a4.
(<login>@<host> replacing actual login & host... it's definitely connecting)
That pesky '/home/Administrator/.ssh' pops up again. I'm not sure if that's what's causing the issue or not. I'm not even sure why the %homepath% for my administrator account on the server is set to administrator.DOMAIN, but AFAIK I can't log in to a local account on a Win2k3S box, correct?
Now, you'll notice that the command I issued to upload the keys I got from the RSync.net instructions. BQ's instructions for step 3 are pretty foreign to me.
I've gone further than this and attempted other things such as SSH'ing into my BQ server using putty and attempting to write the keys that way with no luck. I can't fully remember the errors I encountered doing so, though.
BQBackup, Constant Issues For Weeks With No Resolution In Sight
Aug 12, 2008We first noticed the issue on July 19th, Backups were taking a while to transfer from our own servers, and we were getting tickets from clients asking why this was happening. At the same time, it took about 4-5 minutes to log into the backup console. Issue seemed to correct itself so that backups were possible, and we assumed that scott would be aware of it and would work to resolve it.
Again on the 29th it slowed completely again. We immediately dispatched an email to their support email asking whats up, gave them detailed information such as access to the script and the output so he could monitor it.
The same day a few hours later we got a response that he would run the script and monitor it.
On the 31st, after not getting an update I asked what was going on. He said he ran the script, it seemed to stall for long periods of time and he would know more in the afternoon.
After not getting an update for ~5 days I asked what was going on and I expressed that i was not happy with the lack of communication/updates ont he situation. He updated me later that day saying that we weren't the only ones being affected. Fair enough, he is working on it. Thats all I wanted to hear.
Now ever since that email I received on the 5th (AUG) it has been up and down and all over the place.
After seeing him post on the forums I sent him a PM (10th August), summed up it was basically saying I had an issue, and I need it fixed. I figured since the PM system is usually pretty good at not losing them that he would see it and respond accordingly, that way there was no chance of it being lost from point A to point B as an email.
Well to this day, no response nor resolution.
I really have exhausted all points of communication, and I want to make it clear that I am not bashing them, when it works it's great. But maybe someone else affected can provide more insight..
Dnsreport Goes Pay Only - Alternatives?
Aug 30, 2007One of my favorite web tools, dnsreport dot com, has gone pay only apparently
Is there any other service that is as close to advanced with the nice breakdown it does? Perhaps some tool I can install on one of my own servers?
I know the super skilled will says oh just run this, that and the other command line tool for the same info but I really liked the way they did it and how it explained the details.
SimpleCDN Alternatives
Jun 8, 2009I was wondering if there are any other CDN provider offering cdn solutions at a similar or lower pricing than SimpleCDN?
Is there any alternative around? Or they are the only one to provide cdn in that price range?
UltraDNS - Alternatives
Oct 4, 2009Wanting to know my options for Alternatives to UltraDNs.
I know UltraDNS work's fine (for deep pocketed one's), but I Do NOT want to get Bankrupt using its services, it's just way out expensive.
Shoutcast Alternatives
Feb 5, 2009Any one know of a better auto streaming program as I keep having trouble with my shoutcast server.
It constantly needs rebooted and has issues where people have trouble connecting.
Alternatives To Mod_auth_mysql
Aug 13, 2008I'm on a shared host right now and my server doesn't have the mod_auth_mysql installed. I was wondering if there were any additional alternatives for authenticating content using information from my CMS Users table? If I posted in the wrong forum, I apologize in advance as this topic could go either way, programming or server configuration. Thank you for your valued time.
View 4 Replies View RelatedLeaseweb Alternatives
Sep 20, 2008Purchased a 3-month test period on a dedicated server a few days back but directadmin failed to boot from the outset, support wiped everything and reinstalled onto another partition which worked fine for about 12hrs.
Now I can't even FTP, tried rebooting from service centre etc. nada! probably hardware failure, Prices seemed too good to be true , glad I didn't move my entire site across [active forum with over 10,000 members] as the response time seems to be in days rather than hours.
Any reliable alternatives offering similar packages for similar money?
Alternatives For HostingFest
Jul 16, 2007I have been using hostingfest for a few months now, I had no issues and was very happy as they offered 1000mb space and 10GB b/w, also 3 sql 2005 dbs included and its space subject to the total space, so no restriction on db space.
Since yesterday it has started to bother me, the server is down! no reply from the support staff, which is unusual as they are very fast otherwise.
So i am thinking of a replacement now... cannot afford my site to be down for long
[url]
i have the basic fest plan, if someone can suggest me a good alternative??
Main requirement:
atleast 3 domains, 3 sql 2005 dbs (not lite)
asp.net 2 framework
and about 10GB bandwidth
Alternatives To RVSiteBuilder
Sep 17, 2007I just found out that I cannot edit the text in the templates provided by RVSiteBuilder for my clients. Only clients can edit the text after they sign up with me. Which defeats the whole purpose for my needs. Are there any other programs similar to RVSiteBuilder where I can edit the text in the templates and not just pictures?
View 0 Replies View RelatedLooking At RackSpace.. What Are Some Reputable Alternatives?
Mar 18, 2008We were looking at a server on Rackspace for $300/month, but I wanted to see if there are any reputable companies which can provide a similar service for a bit less money.
Technically we could go with RackSpace, but there's got to be a service just like RackSpace but costing less? Our site only receives approximately 500-600 unique visitors per day, but once every two months or so we get a huge spike in traffic. Our current hosting provider has us on a VPS plan (we pay $80/mo) and today the server crashed because of a huge amount of traffic. We run an e-commerce site with many SQL queries involved, etc. I'm looking for a well established company.
Crissic Is [bad]. Need Reliable Alternatives
May 14, 2008First: Of course Crissic had some advantages as well, they were always nice, they let you do a lot, have a nice client area and so on. In fact, Crissic would be very good, they just need to change their servers or server provider to more reliable things.
I need a reliable hosting that servers doesnt have problems all day. I need to resell stuff and I need online websites to do that, as well as I need online websites to gain money from affiliate networks. Crissic cannot fulfill this, in less than 2 weeks since I am customer there were a lot of downtimes ranging from minutes to hours, there were hardware failures including an 7 days old backup (at least with 15% redeem), somehow an domain couldnt connect at all (I guess some nameserver or DNS error?) and now after I was awake and checked my websites the server does not seem to handle sessions anymore and produces errors on a few of my websites. This hosting ruins all my business and I cannot keep them doing that!
I am searching for reliable alternatives now but with a cheap price and good specifications like Crissic had. Here is exactly what I need:
* Reliable Hosting, NO Downtimes every day. NO Downtimes every 2nd day as well.
* Minimum Diskspace: 3 GB
* Minimum Traffic: 30+ GB
* UNLIMITED Add-On Domains. DNS entrys should be automatic and it MUST be free, had some hosters before that provided unlimited add-on domains but they charged 1$ for each add-on domain then.
* Unlimited FTP-Accounts
* 200+ subdomains
* 200+ e-mail accounts
* PHP4 / 5 + MySQL and GD Library
* Cron-Jobs
* ALL CPanel Functions like on Crissic (at least as much as possible, I need it)
* Price Range between 5-10$, but there should be better hosting packages available for 10-20$ - WITH Upgrade possibility
* No Contract, I do not want to get stuck for 24 month with an hoster
* Good Support is required!
* PayPal Payment possible
* Audio/Video + Flash/Shockwave support and/or if I have additional requirements like for an video hosting script, the hoster should be able to install it and not charge more than 5$ for it
* Money-back guarantee would be great since I do not want to be disappointed by hosters that promises everything but keep nothing
* DAILY Backups
Web Host Block Php Mail... Alternatives?
Feb 14, 2009I send out almost 50 emails a day from a PHP program on my web site.
My web host wrote an email complaining to me.
Should I:
a) take their advice (and if so, do I need an SMTP server and how do I get one set up?)
b) change web hosts?
Here is the email from them:
Hi there,
Thank you for contacting us.
Please note that the script is being abused via a web browser to send out
mail. Please refrain to use the PHP mail() function as it is deprecated and
vulnerable to abuse.
We could possibly suggest that you take a look at using SwiftMailer which is well
documented and supported.
We have commented out all of the mail() function calls on your site.
Dedicated Servers At XS4ALL DC2 - Or Are There Alternatives
Nov 28, 2008I've read a lot about XS4ALL and other datacenters in .nl lately.
As much as I know by know XS4ALL have a superior network over there - dont they?
I did a lot of research to find some Resellers/Hosters who are able to offer dedicated servers at one of XS4ALL's datacenters - but without luck.... My inquiry about dedicated servers directly at XS4ALL is still pending tho....
Do you know of any Resellers/Hosters who can provide dedicated servers at XS4ALL DC's?
Or can you think of any QUALITY alternatives?
As I'm handling worldwide customers a _good_ routing is a must have.
I know there are a lot of hosters outside - but I'm really looking for quality bandwith without any troubles (ecatel?)
Colo Link Aggregation / 802.3ad Alternatives
Apr 28, 2008I run a small streaming/cdn service and I'm looking at how best to utilize my bandwidth. Here's the scoop:
I have a 1/4 rack and 2 gbit drops from my provider. Currently I am running a single server connected to 1 gbit port - nothing fancy. Business is good so I am about to add another server. As this location is already the backup/failover for my primary colo (different location/provider), I am interested in playing with aggregation options.
I have used 802.3ad in the past, so that was my first choice. I asked my provider if they can trunk my ports on their switch - unfortunately they refused (they only allow it above a certain commit).
So...do I have any other options for aggregation? It's pure mb/sec throughput that I am looking for, rather than failover. I have the rackspace/power/etc to colo my own switch or router, I'm just curious if there is an effective alternative.
FDCservers - Yes Or No? 100Mbit Unmetered Alternatives
Aug 6, 2008dedicated server for my PHP/MySQL browser game. I've been working with CentOS 5/cPanel on my current server and I have no reason to change as it works very nicely. However I can only push 1500tb traffic per month with my current server and ideally I want to be able to push up to 5000-6000tb. Does anyone know of any reliable hosts with good uptime that provide high bandwidth packages such as FDCservers 100mbit Unmetered servers. I recently requested a custom quote from FDC but they never got back to me, would you recommend them?
View 13 Replies View RelatedISAPI Rewrite Filter - Alternatives To RewriteMap
May 14, 2009we're using IIS 5.0 which doesn't have any flexible support for rewriting URLs which include parameters (AFAIK, anyway). We're currently testing an ISAPI Rewrite Plugin, which emulates the syntax and behaviour of mod_rewrite, which is why I felt this forum category to be the most appropriate for this post.
Our URLs at the moment look like:-
[url]where 'hg' is an instance of a key. In this particular example, we wish to rewrite our URL to read [url]homegarden' where 'homegarden' is a value of that respective key.
Since the value 'homegarden' isn't present in our current URL, we need some way to associate this value with it's relevant key, by mapping one to another. The ideal solution in this case would be to use RewriteMap, however the ISAPI plugin doesn't support this directive.
One other solution, that I've seen here is to use the 'homegarden' value as the key instead. However, due to the lack of flexibility of our system, this isn't possible.
Another method of achieving this is to hard-code a RewriteRule for every instance of a key, but this solution has obvious performance drawbacks (we have around 400 categories)
So, at the moment I'm out of ideas, which is why I thought I'd try and rack your brains for suggestions. An ideal scenario would be to use something like RewriteCond (which is supported by the plugin) to attach a file which would contain the key/value map.
The current supported directives are :-
RewriteRule
RedirectRule
RewriteHeader
RewriteCond
RewriteLog
RewriteLogLevel
RewriteFilterPriority
IterationLimit
MaxMatchCount
StrictParsing
Even if it's not possible using one of the above, maybe someone can point me to solution involving a method other than using this particular plugin?
Web Based Irc (internet Relay Chat) Alternatives To Pjirc
Jan 2, 2009any alternatives to pjirc / jwirc / jpilot and mibbit tried all 4 seems jpilot is one of the best but the order page puts me off when its asking what bank my card with.
anyone know of any other webbased irc i missed off my list apart from those above and cgirc
Hosting Solution Alternatives To Site5 Inode Limit
Aug 15, 2008I currently have hosting with Site5 (started back before all the overselling), and although my sites are very low in traffic and don't take up much space, I am running up against their 25,000 per site inode limit, due to my hosting a Gallery2 photo album on one of the sites (as I understand, the base install of Gallery2 uses 14,000 inodes alone. Due to how my album is integrated with the rest of the site, it would require hours and hours to switch to something besides Gallery2). All the sites together have used 17 GB of bandwidth so far this month, although much of that has been me uploading stuff to one of the sites to set it up.
Here are my sites:
- Site#1 is a family site, with family photos and a Wordpress blog. Very low traffic (a handful of visits a day), but lots of photos. Inodes not a problem for now (I'm at about 13,000), as unlike one of the other sites, I was able to switch to Zenphoto from Gallery2 pretty easily.
- Site#2 is the newest and fastest growing. It is a site for a small community of people who play a particular online computer game. It runs Drupal, and has about 60 members now, but 5-10 have been joining a day. Most online at one time has been 10. I get anywhere from 30-60 visits a day, but growing. The site uses about 150 MB of storage right now, and this will grow. No photo albums here.
- Site#3 (running Joomla and Gallery2) is for my own gaming group of 8 people that play the above computer game together each week online. Low traffic, but this is the site with the inode problem, as I post screenshots in Gallery2 after each session. Around 25,000 inodes, and 6.5 GB of storage used on the server.
- Site#4 is my wedding site, running on Wordpress. It only gets a handful of visits each day, and will get almost none after the wedding in mid September. No photo album here.
- Site#5 is my fiance's site (running Joomla), which she has pretty much not touched in a year and I doubt anyone visits, but I'm too much of a coward to take down.
With that in mind, I'm wondering what my best solution would be:
- Switch to a VPS, and if so, what kind and who?
- Switch to a different shared host with a higher inode limit
- Stay with Site5 and take the time to farm out the photo album somewhere off the site, or to another program like Zenphoto with a lower footprint.
I'm a tech-geek wannabe and willing to learn. I'm paying about $10 a month (I think) and could probably go as high as $30 or so.