Semi dedicated backups?

[Davey Crockett]

For semi dedicated packages are there weekly backups?
So if a hacker hacks my forums I could restore to from a previous week?

Second question, right now I am on the diamond reseller plan and my websites have various packages such as 500 mb & 5 gb's bandwidth, 200mb and 10 gbs ect...once I switch to semi dedicated will these packages dissappear or can I ask them to? For some up my websites I have to keep upgrading their packages so they do not run over bandwidth.

Thanks for your help!

[Sam]

Originally Posted by Davey Crockett

Second question right now I am on the diamond reseller plan and my websites have various packages such as 500 mb & 5 gb's bandwidth, 200mb and 10 gbs ect...once I switch to semi dedicated will these packages dissappear or can I ask them to? For some up my websites I have to keep upgrading their packages so they do not run over bandwidth.

With a semi dedicated you dont get WHM like on a reseller package, you only get 1 cPanel.

[charlesgan]

i dont think the semi dedicated is designed for reselling.
last time seem like is, but now semi dedicated and fully dedicated server is 2 different thing at hostgator.

http://www.hostgator.com/shared.shtml (refer last column)..
yup.. only have single cpanel. so, not for reselling.

you will need a dedicated server instead

[Serra]

For resellers, its reseller shared or dedicated. Those are the only options. A small dedicated is only a bit more than the semi-dedicated, so that should be the next thing you are looking at.

[Davey Crockett]

That's fine I am not selling any hosting to anyone. I choose the reseller plan before because I wanted individual cpanels. Now I don't care and just want semi dedicated. Sorry for the confusion. But back to my main questions...are there weekly backups for semis? Or am I screwed if a hacker hacks my forums?

[slapshotw]

They do some backups, but you should always be doing backups yourself. A quick search of the forums will give you a cron job that will do a nightly mysql dump, so you always have your forum backup handy. Use it.

[DarkSorrow]

You could always run this script like I do once an hour. I keep an hourly backup in case my forums get borked... The last I also checked there was NO backups on any semi ded. I've had a semi ded for about a year and needed a restore once and was told that semi deds are never backed up.

#!/bin/bash
 
# Script Function:
# This bash script backups up the db everyday at 4am (dependent on when you set the cron job to run) with a file name time stamp and tar.gz zips the file. 
# The db will be saved in /public_html/backups/database_backups/
# Db backups older than 15 days will be deleted.
 
#[Changes Directory]
cd /home/user/backups
 
#[Old DB Deletion Script]
find /home/user/backups/database_backups -name "*.tar.gz" -mtime +30 -exec rm -f {} \;
 
#[Stamps the file name with a date]
TIMESTAMP=`date +%m-%d-%y-%H%M`
 
#[DB Backup Scripts]
# DB Name
HOST=localhost
DBNAME="database"
USER="user"
PASSWORD="password"
DUMP_PATH=/home/user/backups/database_backups/
mysqldump --opt -c -e -Q -h$HOST -u$USER -p$PASSWORD $DBNAME > $DBNAME.sql
tar czpf $DUMP_PATH/$DBNAME.$TIMESTAMP.tar.gz $DBNAME.sql
rm -f $DBNAME.sql

[Davey Crockett]

Thanks for everyones help. I will look into the script or maybe purchase an addition 80gb hard drive. I think the hard drive upgrade costs $30 a month or $200 up front. Although if I do that I'm so close in costs to getting a dedicated

[slapshotw]

Originally Posted by Davey Crockett

I think the hard drive upgrade costs $30 a month or $200 up front. Although if I do that I'm so close in costs to getting a dedicated

I think you can only do that if you're on a dedicated.

[smp]

Originally Posted by slapshotw

I think you can only do that if you're on a dedicated.

You can only do it on a dedicated, just imagine how many HD's HG would have on each of their shared servers if they allowed it.

Regards, Steve Xx