New hosting servers will be implemented

[NIS-Francisco]

Hello,

We are beginning the implementation of two new, different servers for our customers.

The name of such servers will be:

blueberry.navigatoris.us
jackpot.navigatoris.us

With these new servers, we will implement new hosting technologies:

• Ruby on Rails
• PHP 5
• MySQL 5
• RoundCube Webmail

We will post the link to our official news article once it's released, this is to notify you that some of the accounts on mainstream.navigatoris.us are going to get moved to a new server.

We hope this business will allow us to better meet the uptime standards of this industry without leaving the quality and support you preffer.

Thank you for your business,
GFMDS
NavigatorIS

[maty]

English pitinglish

There are 3 layers of data protection on the web servers, usually


1º Store the data on dual hard drives (RAID1), and if one hard drive should malfunction, the other hard drive (2º HD) will keep delivering the data, thus creating redundancy in the event of a hard drive failure.

2º Nightly backups of data to the spare hard drive (the 2º HD) on each server.

3º Backing up the data from the cPanel.


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Spanish

1º Lo lógico en un servidor, es tener dos discos duros idénticos conectados en modo RAID, con lo que en el segundo disco siempre hay una copia idéntica del primero.

2º Durante la noche, hacer copia del HD del servidor a otro ordenador sólo para backups, o hacer el copiado al secundario del servidor durante el periodo de menor actividad.

3º Backup desde el cPanel.

El fallo último en el servidor compartido ha sido por el paso a otra vida del disco duro (HD). ¿No había un segundo disco en RAID?

Pues eso, ¿esos servidores qué sistema de discos implementan?


PD: lo escribo en castellano, ya que seguramente va a ser leído por muchos lectores de una bitácora donde he reseñado este hilo.

[NIS-Francisco]

Hi there,

I have seen your post, and I will tell you some "pros" and some "cons" of each.

1º Store the data on dual hard drives (RAID1), and if one hard drive should malfunction, the other hard drive (2º HD) will keep delivering the data, thus creating redundancy in the event of a hard drive failure.

This is good REAL-TIME backup method, it will work extremely well in case of a HARDWARE failure.

However, if the server is HACKED, all data will be mirrowed (copied) over to the other hard-drive, hence clients will ask: Where's the backups?

2º Nightly backups of data to the spare hard drive (the 2º HD) on each server.

This is what currently we have done, however when the server mainstream was hacked almost a month ago, the hacker was able to corrupt all the backups on the secondary drive.

Mainly because the hard-drive was mounted on the server 24/7 - this would of never happened if the drive was unmounted when the hacker was there.

This is the only "con" of this backup method, if someone accesses the system, your backups are in jeoparty.

3º Backing up the data from the cPanel.

This is not really a layer of 'data' protection. This is basically creating a backup of your account in your HOME directory (before public_html)

Hence, if the server suffers a hard-drive failure on the disk where your HOME directory is, you could loose all those backups.

The best way, to do backups and be "safe" are currently saving the backups somewhere else, on another server.

Currently, we do not employ this, but there will be announcement very soon on this.

Having accounts of $4/month is not enough to allow us to afford having all these backup methods.

We could have hundreds of account on each server, but that won't be fair to other people we host, since the more sites that are hosted on a single server = the slower it will be.

We will be announcing what we have planned for the future in a few weeks, if not a month. This date is not a guarantee though. It will be released once we release our new site (+ Spanish).

Thanks,
GFMDS