The importance of backups is always at the forefront of hosting and it’s something we like to keep in the forefront of our customer’s minds.

It is such a vital yet usually overlooked component of all web businesses. As such we announce a superb special offer with the world leading R1Soft back-up software to celebrate becoming official R1soft Partners.

About R1Soft

Over 200,000 Windows and Linux servers in the world’s largest data centers are protected by R1Soft for server backups. Manage Windows and Linux server backups from one interface and one backup repository.

* High-performance disk-based backups
* Amazingly short backup Windows for Windows and Linux servers
* Centralized Web-based administration
* Affordable and easy to use – Leave no servers unprotected
* Industrial strength storage
* Improve recovery point objectives with CDP
* Cross-platform – Windows and Linux

*SPECIAL OFFER – TurnKey R1Soft Cloud Server*

1 Intel Xeon CPU
1 GB RAM
50GB SAN Storage
100Mbps Internet Uplink
250GB Monthly Transfer24/7 Support
R1Soft License for 1 Server ( Additional server licenses €10 per server per month)

€35 ex VAT per month.

To Avail of this Special Offer:

1 . To order click here – https://billing.dediserve.com/?cmd=cart&action=add&id=9

2 . Under OS template select – Centos 5.3 R1Soft CDP Enterprise 3.0 R2 x64

3. Click on the Green Promotional Link on the sign up page and enter – 7YJNWV8FLOY3

4. Click on the Orange button and the price will update, proceed to checkout.

We have spoken, in the past about the importance of backups and it’s something we like to keep in the forefront of our customer’s minds.

The reason being it’s such a vital yet usually overlooked component of all web businesses. As such dediserve will be covering the topic of back-ups over the coming week and offering special promotions in this area, to start were happy to announce a superb special offer with the world leading R1Soft back-up software to celebrate becoming official R1soft Partners.

About R1Soft

Over 200,000 Windows and Linux servers in the world’s largest data centers are protected by R1Soft for server backups. Manage Windows and Linux server backups from one interface and one backup repository.

* High-performance disk-based backups
* Amazingly short backup Windows for Windows and Linux servers
* Centralized Web-based administration
* Affordable and easy to use – Leave no servers unprotected
* Industrial strength storage
* Improve recovery point objectives with CDP
* Cross-platform – Windows and Linux

*SPECIAL OFFER*

1 Intel Xeon CPU
1 GB RAM
50GB SAN Storage
100Mbps Internet Uplink
250GB Monthly Transfer24/7 Support
R1Soft License for 1 Server ( Additional server licenses €10 per server per month)

€35 ex VAT per month.

To Avail of this Special Offer:

1 .  To order click here – https://billing.dediserve.com/?cmd=cart&action=add&id=9

2 . Under OS template select – Centos 5.3 R1Soft CDP Enterprise 3.0 R2 x64

3.  Click on the Green Promotional Link  on the sign up page and enter  – 7YJNWV8FLOY3

4.  Click on the Orange button and the price will update, proceed to checkout.

Brand new and just deployed – R1soft and Ahsay backup server templates!!

If you are running servers in the office, in a datacentre, or anywhere, backups are always a concern. With these two new templates, you can get a backup server up and running quick and easy (and offsite) and start backing up those important files in minutes!

The two templates are the world leading R1Soft and Ahsay back-up engines. You can now have your R1Soft or Ahsay server up and running in minutes ensuring real time back-ups of your existing server set-up, all stored on dediserve’s highly redundant cloud platform, with all data kept in Ireland in accordance with the data protection act.

About R1Soft

Over 200,000 Windows and Linux servers in the world’s largest data centers are protected by R1Soft for server backups. Manage Windows and Linux server backups from one interface and one backup repository.

* High-performance disk-based backups
* Amazingly short backup Windows for Windows and Linux servers
* Centralized Web-based administration
* Affordable and easy to use – Leave no servers unprotected
* Industrial strength storage
* Improve recovery point objectives with CDP
* Cross-platform – Windows and Linux

About Ahsay

Ahsay™ Backup Software equips with a full range of enterprise-class features for backing up data stored in database servers, email servers, file servers, desktops and notebooks. Over 1,500,000 worldwide customers are using Ahsay™ in protecting their mission critical data

* Secure Data Protection
* Fast Back-Up Speed
* Comprehensive Backup Report
* Affordable and easy to use – Leave no servers unprotected
* Continuous Data Protection for selected files / folder
* Automatic restart missed backup job
* Cross-platform – Windows and Linux

Here at dediserve, we understand the massive importance security plays in the day to day management of the data on your server, in a recent blog post we went through a short tutorial on setting up IPTables on your Virtual Server.

As a follow up to that blog post we will now look at an additional peice of opensource software that will enhance the use of IPtables whilst reducing the amount of work needed in terms of administration on your server.

This is done by installing and setting up the opensource Fail2ban software on your linux virtual machine – Fail2ban scans log files like /var/log/pwdfail or /var/log/apache/error_log and bans IP that makes too many password failures. It updates firewall rules dynamically to reject the IP address.

For this installation i will be using Ubuntu 8.04:

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As the days and months go by more and more coverage is being given to the new
communication kids on the block , tools such as twitter , yammer , and more recently google wave. There has become talk of e-mail as a communication tool eventually no longer leading as the forefront of modern day communication.

However from what we can see here in dediserve , that is not, going to be for a considerable amount of time and with approx. 2.25 Billion emails currently being sent out every day , that’s an enormous mindset that looks unlikely to change within the next ten years.

With e-mail being such a vitally important communication tool for both our personal and business lives, it’s availability is paramount, email downtime now costs money, due to missed meetings or sales potentials, where another company who was able to respond straight away has closed the deal.

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We here at dediserve have stressed before the vital importance that back-ups play with your data, at dediserve we provide you with the ability to switch on automatic daily/weekly and monthly back-ups as well as two manual back-ups. Or you can simply take up to five manual back-ups as well.However not everyone is lucky enough to have their back-ups looked after by dediserve .

So i have put together a list of free opensource back-ups tool which can be easily installed and set-up on any linux based server.

CloneZilla

Clonezilla, based on DRBL, Partition Image, ntfsclone, partclone, and udpcast, allows you to do bare metal backup and recovery. Two types of Clonezilla are available, Clonezilla live and Clonezilla SE (server edition). Clonezilla live is suitable for single machine backup and restore. While Clonezilla SE is for massive deployment, it can clone many (40 plus!) computers simultaneously. Clonezilla saves and restores only used blocks in the harddisk. This increases the clone efficiency. At the NCHC’s Classroom C, Clonezilla SE was used to clone 41 computers simultaneously. It took only about 10 minutes to clone a 5.6 GBytes system image to all 41 computers via multicasting!

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Back-ups in the IT world are very much like, house or car  insurance, its something you only ever think about when things go wrong. And unfortunately most companies especially SME’s tend to completely overlook back-ups until something goes wrong.

This can be for a number of reasons such as:

• cost savings,
• not understanding the importance of back-ups,
• not having someone with the skill to set them up
  
• Simple just forgetting about them.

I’ve personally lost a hard drive on my own PC many years ago, which contained three years of work. It’s certinaly not a good experience and not one i would recommend.
Most  people only  tend to learn about the importance of back-ups after a bad experience , generally one which cost’s alot of time and money.

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