Is your Host good with back ups?
- Thread starter Katrina
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We use HawkHost and at the moment, my other half @Smokey tends to know more about the hosting and whether they take backups regularly. I believe they do.
We also take backups ourselves if we are adding something new or even upgrading something so that if anything goes wrong, we can go back to the backup.
We also take backups ourselves if we are adding something new or even upgrading something so that if anything goes wrong, we can go back to the backup.
I've heard good things about HawkHost, I'm sure they do routine backups as most hosts do. 🙂
We have been very happy with HawkHost ourselves 🙂 never had any issues and they always keep us up to date when it comes to any outages or issues, can not fault them at all 🙂
Does the provider offer a free trial?
Slightdiet
Acquaintance
What is their policy if you need to change your hosting configuration mid-contract? For example, if you start out in a shared server configuration and need to move to a dedicated or VPS environment during your contract term, is that allowed? Are there penalties?
You're free to change plans, but you will be charged the difference of the more expensive plan, pro-rated for the remaining time of the month, it even states on the order form:
So it's pretty easy to transfer with minimal costs.
My host is good about backups, they create daily backups. I also make my own backups just in case something happens, it's best to have multiple options and honestly I feel like it's better to back it up yourself to ensure everything goes smoothly.
I've lost count of the number of times I've seen hosting companies let customers down when it comes to keeping backups. I can also guarantee that virtually nobody ever checks to see if the backups they have taken actually work.
I'd urge every forum owner to create an off-site backup of their database and files on a regular basis and use them to periodically create a test site.
I'd urge every forum owner to create an off-site backup of their database and files on a regular basis and use them to periodically create a test site.
Doctor Tech
Resident
We backup all of our clients' cpanel accounts as courtesy, and configured the server to retain the last 5 backups. Never had any issues, and our clients are appreciative of that. We only get a few requests every here and there to restore a previous backup from the ones we generated.
greenhost.cloud
Reputable
As a provider, we conduct daily backups of our database and weekly backups of all data, retaining them for one month. However, we always recommend that our users and other providers ensure they create regular backups of any essential data themselves.
My servers are all self-managed VPS/Dedi servers so it's basically up to me. Some do have automated backups, but most of my servers are on me to setup, so it depends. A lot of my projects are in Git and I'm using Docker more, so a lot of times the backups only need to be incremental backups for user uploads, or the database, whereas the core files are managed off-server in git, or similar.
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