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Originally Posted by Supz
I always recommend having a local backup. The main reason for having an offsite backup is usually not for the reason of instant restore, but more for incase of a disaster/emergency. If you have a fire in your house, a flood. If you if you want access the data remotely, you can do so from the cloud. If you are just backed up in your house/datacenter. If something happens to that location. You are still in trouble. I always recommend both onsite and offsite. That is, if you take your business seriously  . If you mean a server in another location. That is also a good idea. but if you have anything more then a 99 dollar server. Offsite backup will cost less. |
Like Selena, I wouldn't do the local backups though
But one thing I have learned is you do not want to get your IP address marked as spam on your money sites. Setting up another server for backups AND emails is worth the X% of profits for me.
I tried a backup in a completely different location and it became a problem because I was not willing to provide root access for the backups. So now I just have 2 boxes in 1 building.
Do you have a recommendation for an economical solution in addition to 2 boxes, at another location? Besides downloading the information to my personal harddrives. That way the entire building where my servers are could catch fire and still never lose anything ;)