Cheap hosting is really a disaster !

11 years ago

Originally Posted by wpninja2013

One of my main money website goes down due to disk drive failure, the hosting provider has no backup for the server. Sadly, all of my recent work vanished

in a moment, this is one of best lessons i learned so far.

So please stay away from cheap hosts as possible as you can ! Backup your data regularly, at least once a week if your site updates frequently.

It's apparent that there was zero planning for failures & that there was no disk redundancy. It's a shame.

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Joe Mobley 11 years ago

A website owner should take the responsibility to backup their site!

Or maybe better...

A website owner should take responsibility!

Let me suggest a (re-)read of Looking Out for #1 by Robert Ringer.

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kpmedia

11 years ago

People need to match their PHONE budget for business hosting, not the TACO BELL budget.
When you pay nothing, you get nothing. So many need to realize this.

There's many great hosts out there, but they don't promise "unlimited" for a penny.

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Kingfish85

11 years ago

Originally Posted by kpmedia

People need to match their PHONE budget for business hosting, not the TACO BELL budget.
When you pay nothing, you get nothing. So many need to realize this.

There's many great hosts out there, but they don't promise "unlimited" for a penny.

Well said & completely agree.

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whland

11 years ago

Going for cheap isn't always the best option. If you rely on your site to make you money or your site is really important to you. Go with a quality host and don't pick the host just because they're the cheapest.

And Never rely on your host to backup your files. ALWAYS have your own backup. I've found that out the hard way as well.

I worked on a site for 2 years and didn't have a backup. I lost 2 years of work because the server crashed and all data was lost.

Even though the host boasted about them having backups. They in fact didn't.

I now backup my database daily. You just can never be too careful.

Chad

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Brian John

11 years ago

some things in this business u should never skimp on...hosting is one. (a good autoresponder service is another btw)

and yes, backup regularly

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seasoned

11 years ago

MANY companies WON'T backup regularly unless you PAY for it. ALSO, cpanel and WHM allow for backups, but is it always OFF server?

DON'T ASSUME!

ALWAYS backup YOURSELF, and keep some backups OFF SITE! Heck, suppose they DO backup to ANOTHER server MILES away! What if an earthquake affects BOTH servers? It CAN happen! Suppose they DID have an offmachine backup, but it was at one of the sites, and the earthquake created a fire? You could have THREE copies spread out over two cities and STILL lose EVERYTHING!

Steve

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thunderbird

11 years ago

The secret to getting good cheap hosting is linking up with an ambitious start-up with capital and resources to match their ambitions.

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HeySal

11 years ago

Servage is inexpensive and they are completely awesome............and I'm no tech, but I've learned the "backup your data" thingy the hard way. Applies to stuff on your computer, too. Trust me on that one.