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Cloud Backup and Your Disaster Preparedness Plan

In a world of efficiency, data, and connected everything, business continuity in the face of the unexpected has become far easier to achieve. But if you want to be as resilient as the best companies in the world, you will need the technology behind your organization to make it happen.

Disaster preparedness is something that many small businesses are, well… unprepared for.

Cloud backup can become a pillar of your disaster preparedness plan, ensuring that you can recover quickly when the unexpected occurs.

Why Your Organization Needs Backup and Disaster Recovery for Online Assets

Communication and data transfer are most commonly achieved online in today’s business landscape. Even for a small or medium-sized business, this is true. Look at your website and all the information it holds. Your customer records, or at least an aspect of them, are likely stored online and attached to your website database. The information you store on and around your website isn’t just data, it’s what your company uses to achieve its daily goals.

If your online presence is central to your operation, then your operation is also exposed to inherent risks including…

- - Ransomware, viruses, and malware.
  - Human error.
  - Unauthorized access and loss of data.
  - Hardware failure.
  - Natural disasters.

There are ways you can mitigate some of these risks. With the right hosting provider, you can get enterprise-grade security solutions that help to safeguard your data. But things can still go wrong.

If you want to be sure that your online presence is protected, you need to do more than just secure it. You need to back it up.

Cloud Backup for Dedicated and Virtual Private Servers

Your dedicated or virtual private server can be integrated with a powerful cloud backup and disaster recovery platform, offered by HostRound, and powered by Acronis technology. Continue reading Cloud Backup and Your Disaster Preparedness Plan

What are the advantages of a Bare-Metal server over a VPS?

The Practical Advantages of a Bare Metal Server

In an age where information and connectivity are everything, the server hosting needs of businesses have dramatically increased. From small startups to the largest enterprises, reliable hosting can create opportunities and improve operational workflow.

As you consider solutions for your organization, you’ll need to choose between dedicated access to a bare metal server or shared hosting through a virtual private server. Understanding the advantages of a bare metal server can help you to make the right decision.

What is a Bare Metal Server?

Shared web hosting through a virtual private server (VPS) is affordable and efficient but comes with major limitations. A bare metal server, also known as a single-tenant physical server, is an alternative suited to businesses that demand improved performance, versatility, and customization.

With a bare metal server, you lease the physical hardware and won’t share resources with other customers provisioned on the same equipment. Your organization will have root-level access to the server, offering complete customization as if the server were located on your premises.

Full control with no compromises leads many businesses to choose bare metal servers over shared alternatives.

The Advantages of Choosing a Bare Metal Server

There are several key advantages to choosing a bare metal server. Even just a few of these could provide enough relevance to your organization to make the switch.

Improved Security

Virtual private servers can offer impressive security that is sufficient for many organizations. However, if you seek the best enterprise-grade security, especially for compliance reasons, a bare metal server is the ideal solution. Continue reading What are the advantages of a Bare-Metal server over a VPS?

How a Small Business Website Can Help You Grow

The internet has evolved from a simple information network, to become the world’s largest repository of data, learning, and communication tools. This has opened a pathway for digital marketing, creating strong opportunities for businesses to grow their brands, engage with customers, and promote products and services.

Despite the potential of digital marketing being well understood, there’s still a staggering number of small businesses that are yet to build their online presence. In fact, even in the United States, the world’s most highly developed market, up to 46% of small businesses lack a website.

There are now more than 4.5 billion internet users around the globe. Up to 80% of those users will research brands, products, and services online before making a purchasing decision.

If your business doesn’t have a website, you’re literally ignoring the majority of your potential market. Find out why a small business website helps, and start to develop your digital marketing strategy with the help of HostRound.

Continue reading How a Small Business Website Can Help You Grow

Introducing JetBackup – Self-service backup system on cPanel

Here at HostRound, L.L.C., data protection is our top priority.
We are constantly improving our system, adding more features for our customers to provide a better user experience.

We’re delighted to introduce the latest addition to our services – JetBackup.
JetBackup is a new, self-service backup system that allows our shared hosting customers to restore individual files/folders, email accounts, databases and/or an entire hosting account directly from the cPanel control panel.

This means you (as a shared hosting customer) don’t need to open a support ticket to request an account restoration from yesterday’s backup, you can do it immediately yourself with just one click via cPanel > JetBackup.

We provide the seven most-recent daily backup copies in your cPanel. However, if you happen to need an older backup, this will only be the time when you’ll need to open a support ticket.
We highly recommend you regularly download a copy of your account backup. Continue reading Introducing JetBackup – Self-service backup system on cPanel

Spam Experts Outgoing Filter Available to all Shared Hosting Customers

We’ve got great news for shared hosting customers in 2019. As of March, all customers on our shared hosting platforms will have access to the class-leading SpamExperts outgoing filter.

This will ensure that our valued customers are able to avoid rejections and blacklisting. You’ll protect your brand, be better able to identify abuse from your own user accounts, and avoid severe fines related to unsolicited or malicious emails.

SpamExperts outgoing filter stops spam from leaving our network and increase credibility and deliverability, and it’s available today.