The Backup Wake-Up Call: Why Off-Site Backups Are Crucial
Imagine waking up one day to discover your website is not just down but gone. Then you find out it’s not just your site; it seems to be a catastrophic server failure. As you scramble to figure out what’s wrong, you receive the news you never thought you’d hear: the data center housing your servers has gone up in flames. This might sound like a doomsday scenario, but it’s far from fiction. On March 10th,...
Don’t Crowd When You Can Strike: The Power to Restore with JetBackup
In today’s digital landscape, data is the center of every business. Keeping your data secure and accessible isn’t just important, it’s essential. We’ve all heard those horror stories about system updates going haywire, causing massive disruptions and data loss. Take the recent Microsoft and CrowdStrike upgrade debacle. What should have been a routine security update ended up wreaking havoc—systems crashed and businesses faced unexpected downtime. It’s a stark reminder: always backup your data before rolling...
JetBackup Now Available on the DigitalOcean Marketplace
We are excited to announce that JetBackup is now part of the DigitalOcean Marketplace! This integration makes it easier than ever for DigitalOcean users to leverage our flexible backup solution, ensuring your data is secure and easily manageable. Why JetBackup on DigitalOcean? JetBackup was designed to enhance and streamline web hosting backup processes. Now available on DigitalOcean, it can seamlessly integrate with your droplets running the most popular operating systems, including Ubuntu and Debian. JetBackup...
Ransomware Protection: How JetBackup Helps Hosting Companies Recover Quickly from Attacks
Understanding Ransomware: Why Hosting Companies Need a Robust Backup Plan Ransomware attacks are a growing threat to businesses and individuals alike. These malicious attacks encrypt data, rendering it inaccessible until a ransom is paid. With the rise of AI and decentralized cryptocurrencies, ransomware attacks have become easier to implement and harder to trace. For hosting companies, the stakes are even higher, as these attacks can affect multiple clients simultaneously, leading to data loss, financial damage,...
Improve Performance with The JetBackup Priority System
As a general recommendation, we typically suggest scheduling your Backup Jobs during your server’s off-peak hours to get the most out of your backup times. Considering that larger accounts can often take much longer for their backups to complete, we have seen cases where backup times significantly vary depending on the time backups for certain accounts get processed. Prioritizing the backups for your accounts can be a helpful tool in optimizing your backup jobs and...