[Dynamo]

Dynamo you need to setup automated backup process using cron or using a myBB plugin and take a daily backup or a backup twice a day. We all know we can never relay on Hosting Providers for having regular backups. Specially when it comes to an active forum. It has now work arounds.

I guess you are right, we are now using a bash script which use to backup daily(with help of cron) all forum files and database and shift it to some filestorage site..

[xdude]

DataBase is what need to be backup often. This is what need to be backed up even two/three times a day. Forum files need to be backup once a while since those don't change often.

[Honey]

aww, that's sad, these sudden downtimes are a nightmare for a owner, I hope you can find a better hosting provider, you may try Host4Fun if you're not already hosting from the, I host my site from them and It only went down once but automatically came back in a few days! + they offer daily backups by their staff for just a few more bucks

[Lampard]

aww, that's sad, these sudden downtimes are a nightmare for a owner, I hope you can find a better hosting provider, you may try Host4Fun if you're not already hosting from the, I host my site from them and It only went down once but automatically came back in a few days! + they offer daily backups by their staff for just a few more bucks

As you said it came back in few days, so it looks like it was a big downtime, still big downtimes are not good for these websites too.

[perry]

aww, that's sad, these sudden downtimes are a nightmare for a owner, I hope you can find a better hosting provider, you may try Host4Fun if you're not already hosting from the, I host my site from them and It only went down once but automatically came back in a few days! + they offer daily backups by their staff for just a few more bucks

As you said it came back in few days, so it looks like it was a big downtime, still big downtimes are not good for these websites too.

Sadly your right.
An main site thats down makes automatic your service baadly due that you failed to keep up your main site.
That days nowadays

[Conan]

Make a daily backup. And don't use a webhost. Use a decent VPS then do daily backups.
You can like attach gdrive/pcloud to your server as a filesystem then transfer tars of the database and the forum every midnight. THen just delete 1 week old backups.
I'm doing that for my server and it's a decent backup solution.

It should be fairly easy to do a script for that then cron it.

[RickB]

I am actually quite curious: which stupid-ass hoster only backs up its servers once a week??

Where is Post4VPS hosted, Dynamo?

[perry]

I am actually quite curious: which stupid-ass hoster only backs up its servers once a week??

Where is Post4VPS hosted, Dynamo?

cloudrino as i believe

[phoenixwolf]

cloudrino offers a free vps? and if so the specs are decent.

512 MB RAM
10 GB Storage
100 GB Bandwidth(5Mbit)
1 core
1 IPv4 & 1 IPv6

[TrK]

cloudrino offers a free vps? and if so the specs are decent.

512 MB RAM
10 GB Storage
100 GB Bandwidth(5Mbit)
1 core
1 IPv4 & 1 IPv6

bandwidth speed is now 100mbps as i got while downloading files from mediafire.