Web Domain/host question!

[gstylez]

How often do webhosts backup their websites?

Is it daily or weekly etc? Had an issue tonight and I had a techie tell me because we were making changes on a live server it wasnt being frequently updated.


Im in panic mode because of all the content I might have lost on the website !

[weedb0y]

how about give your webhost a call and post here as well for future reference

[gstylez]

lol..i called my techie and thats what he said.. called the owner/president and he said its updated on a nightly basis. Like I said im just in panic mode!

[weales]

Many hosting companies will state daily/weekly backups but that's not always the case.

Your best bet is to backup the data yourself, I had a gig Database go AWOL on me and the hosting company at the time didn't back up. Lucky I backed up the database myself from a weekly cron job but I was out on a weeks worth of data.

Call your hosting company and find out if they did or not.

[cdnNick]

It can vary greatly between hosting companies. Some just run a RAID setup for some fault tolerance others will do daily backups some weekly, some monthly. But you should do your own backups anyways it just adds another resource to use incase of a loss of data.

We do nightly off site backups.

[teknoluv]

Im in panic mode because of all the content I might have lost on the website !

Regardless of what your hosting company do, you should do your own backup regularly. If you read more carefully their terms and conditions, almost all of them will say that there's no guarantee that you'll get your backup intact.