Host Gator's Cloud Backup?

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wickedDUDE

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I noticed that Host Gator has a backup service for $19.95/year, which is very reasonable. I know it's never good to rely on a third party for backups, but I thought this might be a nice addition to the backups that I already make once every month or so.

I was curious if anyone signed up for this. It says that the backups are made daily and it is done through Code Guard.
 


HostGator customer here - I'm moving to knownhost.com (several people on this board recommended it)

HostGator used to be awesome, now they have sold out they are shit. I suggest moving before your site goes down for 24+ hours just as you turn on a new ad :(
 
They haven't been bad lately (knocks on wood). However, I do recall the few bad days where they were down.
 
Sorry to rant, but not only did my site just go down, here is what I'm experiencing in terms of chat support:

5 minutes after chat initiation; they ask which acc I'm contacting them about (it was in my original chat initiation message)

After another 8 minutes: Can we temporarily change pass to check? I answer immediately yes

After another 12 minutes: They ask if xxx.xx.xx.xxx is an IP I know. I answer immediately yes, it is my IP (they should see this from chat software)

Another 3 minutes: They tell me I was editing too many posts at the same time (40 on a VPS with the second highest specs they offer)


I am speechless. I don't want to move so I've been dragging my feet, but god damn these fuckers are pushing me to dump their sorry ass.

HG used to be pretty damn good in terms of price/quality
 
Their advice to me: edit no more than 1 post at a time!!! AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG - I'm going to have to make the move this weekend now.
 
A couple months ago I moved all of my personal sites and projects to Amazon AWS.

I ported all of my WordPress blogs to Jekyll, which took awhile but was worth it. None of my blogs had any special features requiring it to be dynamic, so why not go static? I also ported many of my smaller non-WP sites to static, switching PHP with JS where scripting was necessary.

I no longer have several databases for my blogs, no longer have to update WordPress, and my sites load ridiculously fast (between going static and moving from a VPS to cloud). I pay <$5/month for my S3 storage, hosting over a dozen sites, a few of them pretty high traffic.

I also moved a few small low-traffic web apps and a medium-traffic WordPress blog (relies on too many plugins to go Jekyll) to EC2 and pay less than $20 a month to host them. Previously had them on a VPS running me $80 a month.
 
Get a Knownhost VPS!

Then for your needs, BackupBuddy Bridged with Dropbox replicated across to AWS or Rackspace Cloud (if you find the need)!

Get a developer license for one fiddy and it will work across unlimited number of sites. You can schedule backups, move them to the cloud, restore with one click. Pretty darn awesome.
 
Are there any backup services where your site can in theory never be down?

i.e. suppose your site at Host Gator goes down. Then somehow it reverts to another version hosted somewhere else.
 
greenleaves said:
HostGator customer here - I'm moving to knownhost.com (several people on this board recommended it)

HostGator used to be awesome, now they have sold out they are shit. I suggest moving before your site goes down for 24+ hours just as you turn on a new ad :(
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I'm also a fan of knownhost. My experience with them is managed dedicated, and managed VPS.

Hostgator, I used to loathe for a number of reasons. But sometimes, you want websites to get lost in a giant shared hosting environment. It's cheaper and easier than having reseller accounts scattered everywhere. (which I also still have.)



golan said:
Lately Hostgator became same no no as Godaddy and 1&1.
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ick. Who else is good at putting a million sites on the same ip?
 
Agree hostgator has been declining for some time now. But it's a pain to have to find a reliable new host. Once you switch, you find the new guy is just as bad. Now if Matt wants me to pay him to do this for me, pm me.
 
-Matt- said:
A couple months ago I moved all of my personal sites and projects to Amazon AWS.

I ported all of my WordPress blogs to Jekyll, which took awhile but was worth it. None of my blogs had any special features requiring it to be dynamic, so why not go static? I also ported many of my smaller non-WP sites to static, switching PHP with JS where scripting was necessary.

I no longer have several databases for my blogs, no longer have to update WordPress, and my sites load ridiculously fast (between going static and moving from a VPS to cloud). I pay <$5/month for my S3 storage, hosting over a dozen sites, a few of them pretty high traffic.

I also moved a few small low-traffic web apps and a medium-traffic WordPress blog (relies on too many plugins to go Jekyll) to EC2 and pay less than $20 a month to host them. Previously had them on a VPS running me $80 a month.
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Did you follow any tutorials about setting up AWS? Or did you just figure it out as you go? Thanks!
 
Paper_Chase said:
Did you follow any tutorials about setting up AWS? Or did you just figure it out as you go? Thanks!
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Setting up AWS S3 (static hosting only) was simple, and I figured it out quickly since I already knew the interface. Their DNS system was a bit trickier, unintuitive process. This blog post covers it all pretty much, though:

Static Web Hosting With Amazon S3 | Chad Thompson

I used a tutorial to set up EC2 for my web apps though, but I picked it up quick since I know my way around SSH. EC2 is basically like having your own remote machine, given to you raw - you install your web server (nginx, lighttpd, or apache), then mysql, php, ruby and rails, etc. I can't find the link I used, but here's another good one that goes through the steps setting up a fresh instance and installing WP.

Setting Up WordPress on Amazon EC2 in 5 minutes | Christophe Coenraets

As for converting my WP sites to Jekyll, that was a longer process that involved alot of Google/Stack Overflow searches. Something I didn't do the first time around, that I recommend doing, is installing the Disqus Wordpress Plugin to quickly export your comments from WP into Disqus before making the switch (assuming you plan to use Disqus after going static of course.)
 
After that issues they had in August I started noticing never ending issues with uptime.

2 accounts there but I'mmoving my shit elsewhere until the end of this year, the question is where...
 
-Matt- said:
Setting up AWS S3 (static hosting only) was simple, and I figured it out quickly since I already knew the interface. Their DNS system was a bit trickier, unintuitive process. This blog post covers it all pretty much, though:

Static Web Hosting With Amazon S3 | Chad Thompson

I used a tutorial to set up EC2 for my web apps though, but I picked it up quick since I know my way around SSH. EC2 is basically like having your own remote machine, given to you raw - you install your web server (nginx, lighttpd, or apache), then mysql, php, ruby and rails, etc. I can't find the link I used, but here's another good one that goes through the steps setting up a fresh instance and installing WP.

Setting Up WordPress on Amazon EC2 in 5 minutes | Christophe Coenraets

As for converting my WP sites to Jekyll, that was a longer process that involved alot of Google/Stack Overflow searches. Something I didn't do the first time around, that I recommend doing, is installing the Disqus Wordpress Plugin to quickly export your comments from WP into Disqus before making the switch (assuming you plan to use Disqus after going static of course.)
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almost finished with WSO....
 
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