If you are using shared hosting or vps hosting or dedicated server, at anytime you can perform the database backup, and download the database backup files to your local storage. This is to safeguard your database data from lose or server problem that will crash your data for example. Its our weekly task to login to ipage web hosting control panel and download a backup copy of the mysql database and store it locally for extra protection. Althoug ipage hosting had carried out daily data backup, we still don’t think its enough. Having a local copy is the best practise, and should do so for any shared web hosting that you are currently using.
Its common practise for us to perform weekly backup for this ipage review site, this including files backup and database backup. In order to generate the ipage database backup, we login to ipage vdeck control panel and goes to phpmyadmin and export the database backup files from there and save it locally. We can export the database in plain text file, or compress it into zip or gz format before download the compress files to local storage.
In case of data lost or mysql database backup need to be restored to server, we can login to ipage phpmyadmin page again and import the database to server. We can choose to upload the plain text database format or the compress file format. In second the database can get restored back to previous edition.
Beside doing this manually, you can use the feature provided by iPage database to manage backup for your database files. Login to iPage vDeck and go to MySQL database > Manage backups > choose your database > see all backup available and download it. That’s right, the previous generated database backup is made available here and you can download as well.
Regardless for data security purposes or for website migration purposes, the data backup and recovery feature are very useful. Make sure you know how to use it. We are prefering ipage hosting because their $3.50/mo shared hosting plan are complete with daily backup service for free.
For any web hosting, its a must to carry out your own data backup and database backup. Any server disaster might end up with data lost and unrecoverable situation. No matter you are using shared hosting, vps hosting, reseller hosting, or dedicated server.. its the customer responsibility to have backup plan and disaster recovery for their data. Although in many shared hosting plan you find online today are offering nightly backup services for their shared hosting, its still a must to keep a backup files on your local computer and backup the database often as well.
Ipage shared hosting does carried out daily backup, and you can view this under their hosting specification page. And ipage backup services is by NetApp Snapshot Data Backups, a popular data backup software:
“iPage servers are backed up daily ensuring that your website is always protected.“
They also have premium backup service too. At affordable price, you can signup to their backup restore service and protect your website files and database in more complete way. Here is the iPage backup service that being promoted and available via your iPage control panel too
Ipage discount price now at $3.50 per month low, and you can signup ipage hosting today and the hosting plan is daily backup.
Ipage web hosting are unlimited web hosting plan selling at discount price $3.50 per month. Off-course, for unlimited hosting plan, we are looking for unlimited storage and unlimited transfer, unlimited domain hosting as well. For mysql database, every customer wish for unlimited mysql database creating for their account too. With this unlimited mysql database feature, you can add as many mysql database as require, and host as many database driven websites in single ipage hosting account.
For example to host this ipage review wordpress blog site, we use one mysql database. We could host ten or even hundred of wordpress blog site, and created mysql database for each of the website. Following is the current ipage database version and info that you can find useful.
- Ipage MySQL database version 5.0.83
- Ipage phpMyAdmin version 2.8.0.1
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