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 | | |  | Join Date: Feb 2007 | Posts: 605 | Location: New Delhi, India | Using shared hosting account as a backup option I have been looking for an online backup service to backup my personal data (documents, photos, videos etc.) and so far having seen all the options, I think a shared hosting account with tons of space or Amazon S3 would fit in perfectly with my requirements (got at least 40gb data to be backed up and would increase even further).
Majority of the data would be uploaded once and would just sit there unless my computer crashes. It would be best if the host also performs weekly/monthly backups to ensure some form of redundancy.
Based on above requirement, which one (shared hosting or Amazon S3) do you think would fit in perfectly and would turn out to be cheaper in the long run, especially since I am looking for a service which is easy to use and preferably includes auto resume while uploading. vBSetup Team
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vBSetup Owner    | | Join Date: Jul 2006 | Posts: 9,242 | Location: Topeka, KS | Re: Using shared hosting account as a backup option I would just go with an external HD, or adding another one to your machine.. You can get an external for next to nothing these days, and a 200 gig external hd for less then 150$
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Find it on Forums | | | Join Date: Feb 2007 | Posts: 605 | Location: New Delhi, India | Re: Using shared hosting account as a backup option I already have two internal HDDs, however couple of years ago the two drives I had at that time, crashed at the same time (hard crash) and I lost little over 16GB worth of photographs.
In the past I have taken backups on DVDs as well, but sometimes the DVD doesn’t work after a while so I am a little hesitant about them. Add to this, I think it would be a good idea to have an off site backup option, since the photographs I click are not only memories for me, they are also important in running my sites. vBSetup Team
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vBSetup Owner | | | Join Date: Jul 2006 | Posts: 9,242 | Location: Topeka, KS | Re: Using shared hosting account as a backup option That's the good thing about an external HD. You don't have to have it on all the time. Just turn it on when you need to upload some data.
If you are just looking for a backup of your images, then I would use a host. I would add a small image hosting script like imageshack for the display images, then you could make a folder for the raw images as well.
This would do a few things, depending on the script, it would help organize the photo's, they would be in folders. It would also help build links to w/e url you want, maybe a sub-directory of your personal/buisness blog.. 
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vBSetup Mods | | | Join Date: Jan 2008 | Posts: 625 | Location: Ohio | Re: Using shared hosting account as a backup option you can check out a service like bqinternet which is a backup service, no web access.
Also ASmallORange.com their Extreme hosting plans or evne something like Dreamhost if you're only using it to backup stuff. and display the ocassional image.
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Check out my Webmaster Articles at the vBulletin Setup Blog! SEO Talk | | | Join Date: Feb 2007 | Posts: 605 | Location: New Delhi, India | Re: Using shared hosting account as a backup option Quote:
Originally Posted by Brandon  That's the good thing about an external HD. You don't have to have it on all the time. Just turn it on when you need to upload some data. | That might just work as well; in any case I can get a USB adapter for my internal HDD and make it an external one. Quote:
Originally Posted by Brandon If you are just looking for a backup of your images, then I would use a host. I would add a small image hosting script like imageshack for the display images, then you could make a folder for the raw images as well.
This would do a few things, depending on the script, it would help organize the photo's, they would be in folders. It would also help build links to w/e url you want, maybe a sub-directory of your personal/buisness blog.. | Actually I don’t want to do that, because the images will be in full resolution (4mp onward) and wouldn’t be watermarked, so I don’t want to expose them on the internet. Even with a shared hosting account, I was planning to store the files outside public_html folder so as to ensure that bots wouldn’t be able to crawl them. Quote:
Originally Posted by MaddenGods you can check out a service like bqinternet which is a backup service, no web access. | It would actually end up costing me more than S3 and that too if I use the entire 100B they promise. For 40GB it would cost me more 4times more than S3, since they don’t offer custom plans and their base plan is only of 10GB and next one for 1000gb. Quote:
Originally Posted by MaddenGods Also ASmallORange.com their Extreme hosting plans or evne something like Dreamhost if you're only using it to backup stuff. and display the ocassional image. | I was actually thinking about doing that, however I have been told by a few that few hosts might not allow the account to be used for backups.
I have also found a service called mozy, which offers unlimited backup space for US$5 a month, however it is the unlimited tag that I am unable to digest. Contributor
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vBSetup Mods | | | Join Date: Jan 2008 | Posts: 625 | Location: Ohio | Re: Using shared hosting account as a backup option I'd avoid Mozy just because of the "unlimited" tag as well. (I've never used it, could be the best backup service ever, but princpal tells me to avoid it)
I've never heard of this Amazon s3 thing until today, so i wasn't aware of the costs I'm actually checking it out now myself 
*Disclaimer to previous post: I'd only use Dreamhost as a backup service 
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Check out my Webmaster Articles at the vBulletin Setup Blog! SEO Talk | | | Join Date: Feb 2007 | Posts: 605 | Location: New Delhi, India | Re: Using shared hosting account as a backup option Yup that thing is the sole reason I haven't yet tried it, S3 is good and offers backup space for 15 cents per gb, however they also charge for upload and download bandwidth and get requests. Which means the month you initially upload majority of the data or download, it can end up costing quite a bit. |
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