What Happens to Your Data When a Hosting Company Goes Down?
It is a scenario that most website owners never consider until it is too late: your hosting company shuts down, goes bankrupt, or simply disappears overnight.
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Backup strategy, disaster recovery, retention and high-availability storage. 11 articles from the MassiveGRID engineering teams.
Disaster Recovery Planning for Small Business Websites
Disaster Recovery Planning for Small Business Websites: Defining RTO and RPO, Identifying Threats and Building Your Recovery Strategy.
Read MoreBackup Retention Policies: How Many Backups Is Enough?
How many backups should you keep? How far back should they go? Should you keep daily snapshots for a week, a month, or a year?
Read MoreHow Ceph Distributed Storage Protects Your Data (and Why It Matters)
Every piece of data on a VPS -- your databases, application files, configuration, customer records -- ultimately lives on a physical storage device.
Read MoreWhat Is Ceph Storage? How Triple Replication Protects Your Data
What Is Ceph Storage? How Triple Replication Protects Your Data: How Triple Replication Works and Triple Replication vs. RAID: A Direct Comparison.
Read MoreWhat Is Ceph Distributed Storage? A Non-Technical Explainer
What Is Ceph Distributed Storage? A Non-Technical Explainer: The Problem Ceph Solves and How Ceph Works: The Non-Technical Version.
Read MoreHow NVMe SSDs Accelerate Website Load Times (and Why Spinning Disks Are Dead)
How NVMe SSDs Accelerate Website Load Times: The Storage Revolution in Web Hosting and Understanding the Three Storage Technologies.
Read MoreNVMe vs. SSD vs. HDD Hosting: A Performance Comparison With Benchmarks
NVMe vs. SSD vs. HDD Hosting: How Storage Technology Has Evolved, Benchmark Comparison: The Numbers and Why Random IOPS Matter More Than Sequential Speed.
Read MoreOff-Site Backups Explained: Why Storing Backups in Another Data Center Matters
When most people think about website backups, they imagine a simple copy of their files sitting somewhere safe. But "somewhere" matters enormously.
Read MoreUnderstanding ZFS Write Penalties: Striped, Mirrored, and RAID-Z VDEVs Explained
When designing a storage system with ZFS, the choice of virtual device (vdev) configuration directly impacts performance, redundancy, and efficiency.
Read MoreUnderstanding RAID Write Penalties: RAID 0, 1, 5, and 6 Explained
Understanding RAID Write Penalties: When designing a storage system, understanding RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) configurations is critical.
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