Backup policy has changed

 

Find out the latest changes and improvements made by the Hostico technical team in December.

Hostico / blogby Mark Dohi
Backup server update

Additional Resources

The requirements for physical resources of applications,whether we are talking about applications downloaded from the internet or custom built are constantly growing . As they become more complex, more powerful , denser with hundreds of functionalities the more resources they consume. What yesterday was more than enough from a resource point of view , today it barely satisties the minimum requirements. To counteract this tendency and to maintain a low level of response time for the accounts hosted on the Hostico network we have decided to increase the assigned resources not just for shared hosting packages as for our private virtual servers (VPS) as well. The increase of resources does not bring along an increase of cost, so for the same price you get more resources.

The aditional resources added to the virtual private servers (VPS) consist in 1 additional processor and 1 additional GB of RAM for each vps configuration. The following table will show you the before and after value of the resources assigned to the VPS servers.

Virtual Private Servers (VPS)

VPS Plan
Before Ram
After Ram
Before CPU
After CPU
VPS Mini
1024MB
2048MB
2.000Mhz
4.000Mhz
VPS Midi
2048MB
3072MB
4.000Mhz
6.000Mhz
VPS Maxi
3072MB
4096MB
6.000Mhz
8.000Mhz
VPS SSD Plan
Before Ram
After Ram
Before CPU
After CPU
VPS SSD Mini
1024MB
2048MB
2.000Mhz
4.000Mhz
VPS SSD Midi
2048MB
3072MB
4.000Mhz
6.000Mhz
VPS SSD Maxi
3072MB
4096MB
6.000Mhz
8.000Mhz

 

Shared Hosting

For shared hosting packages the increase of resources consists in the increase of php memory to 128MB for the Personal hosting category and 256MB for the Business and Reseller hosting categories. The following table will ilustrate the before and after resource values.

Shared Hosting Plan
Before PHP Memory
After PHP Memory
Personal Mini
64MB
128MB
Personal Midi
96MB
128MB
Personal Maxi
128MB
128MB
Business Mini
164MB
256MB
Business Midi
196MB
256MB
Business Maxi
228MB
256MB
Reseller Mini
196MB
256MB
Reseller Midi
228MB
256MB
Reseller Maxi
256MB
256MB


Backup

The range for most of the restore requests is 1-14 days after they have been generated. Rarely did we have to restore backups with more than 14 days from their creation because normally clients who check their web site if not daily, at least once every couple of days will notice if there is a malfunction in their website which can only be fixed with a backup restore. The cases in which the users alter or modify the structure of their website which in the end proves to be wrong is the most common situation but in this particular situation the most recent backup is used and there is no need for older ones. Consequently the period for which the backups are kept was modified from 30 to 14 days.

Hostico / blogPublished 24-12-2015