Category: Storage

Rsync Backup

The Rsync Backup is another type of offsite backup. It is a pull service unlike FTP backup/repo. This backup service will pull the files from your production server. It uses SSH connection and is more flexible. The process creates full and incremental backups. You can also set the backup interval to hourly, daily, weekly or monthly. Rsync Backup is also good for large sites or huge amount of files.

Features:

  • Interval – hourly, daily, weekly or monthly
  • Full and incremental backups
  • SSH connection
  • For large sites with too many files
  • No file size limit

Please submit a ticket for us to configure for your server.

Additional notes:

  • While the Rsync Backup can backup large sites with many files the process will take longer depending the number of files and size of files. For large sites it could take hours for the backup process to complete.
  • No offsite backup

FTP Repo

Our FTP Repo service can be used for storing your archives or backups that does not need to be accessible via web browser. Ideal for long term storage or infrequently accessed files. It is also good for temporarily storing your web site that need to hold for development and plan to restore in the future.

Features:

  • No public web/http/https access
  • Shared Environment
  • Redundant Storage (RAID)
  • 1gb max upload file size
  • FTP access
  • Offsite Backup

Use Cases:

  • Offsite backup for small sites
  • Archive storage

Additional Notes:

– The offsite backup is stored in another data center for disaster recovery or hardware failure. It is NOT meant for reverting files or data in case you accidentally deleted a file in your repository.

GP Storage (General Purpose)

The GP Storage (General Purpose) is our hosting service that has generous amount of disk space for hosting web sites or files that needs to be accessible by browsers. It can be used to host your static files or web assets such as CSS, Javascripts, images and other media, tar, zip, or pdf files or even HTML and small PHP apps that doesn’t need a database. This service also includes proxy caching for static files for fast delivery and less load.

Features:

  • Shared Environment
  • Redundant Storage
  • NGINX, Apache, PHP 7
  • PHP max upload filesize = 5mb
  • PHP post max size = 5mb
  • PHP open base directory
  • PHP display error = on
  • PHP max execution time = 5 sec
  • FTP access
  • FTP max upload filesize = 10mb
  • Offsite Backup
  • Proxy and Cache for static files

Use Cases:

For small sites or startups:

  • Use as external storage to offload images and other media files.
  • Use as external storage that requires small PHP application for your API or other functions for your storage.

For development:

  • Cost effective for developing PHP applications.
  • If your application needs ample amount of storage.

Additional Notes:

– The offsite backup is stored in another data center for disaster recovery or hardware failure. It is NOT meant for reverting files or data in case you accidentally deleted a file in your repository.