The Importance of Maintaining Regular Back Ups of Your Website

Back ups are often overlooked when it comes to websites, databases and email records. Many firms think nothing of putting all of their corporate eggs in one basket, but they come to realize the error of their ways as soon as something happens that compromises their data. By then, however, it’s too late to implement any kind of safeguards, so these firms must rebuild from the ground up. Here’s how to avoid such a mission-stopping with back ups.

Why Does My Data Need Protection?
Data disasters come in all sizes. While system-wide failures are a common worst-case scenario, you might only lose a portion of your website content files or your email records. These losses are just as devastating because your entire organization has to go back and waste time retracing its steps.

Websites aren’t the only aspects of a business at risk. If your consumer information database gets corrupted by bad access routines, or a server suffers a security breach, you may irrecoverably forfeit thousands of sensitive customer records. These events can throw a monkey wrench right in the middle of your daily operations, and they’re extremely difficult to recover from.

How Do Back Ups Work?
Even top data centers suffer from natural disasters, server failures and other data loss events. The best protection is to duplicate vital information and store it in a secure location. Unfortunately, manually transferring, copying and saving information are huge tasks that take away from your staff’s ability to actually get work done.

Our automated scheduled backups save the contents of your designated critical systems on a regular basis without making your firm pause and wait. They’re ideal for organizations that innovate new technologies and create novel IT Services. At any given moment, your staff can go backwards in time and recover lost data or simply track their progression.

Automated back ups also reduce system overhead. Because these operations are handled by software, they can operate as background processes that don’t require a lot of resources. Your web servers can keep serving your consumers, your managers can continue monitoring your sales statistics and your entire corporation can move forward happily while we ensure that your important information is secure.

Certified Hosting has a variety of back up options available. Please contact us to learn how we can help you to back up your important files today!

Web hosting provider Certified Hosting begins accepting the peer-to-peer digital currency as payment for web hosting services.

Los Angeles, CA (PRESS RELEASE) April 16, 2013 – Certified Hosting (certifiedhosting.com), a leading web hosting provider, announced today that the company is accepting Bitcoin payments. As more consumers start using this digital currency to send and receive payments around the world, Certified Hosting’s announcement gives customers more payment flexibility and helps to support this rapidly growing economy.

“Accepting Bitcoin payments is very exciting for us,” says Kacy Carlsen, co-founder and CEO of Certified Hosting. “The way that people make payments is changing, and Bitcoin presents a secure method for transferring money directly to its intended destination. We have already seen demand for the ability to pay for web hosting services with bitcoins, and we are pleased to make that possible for our customers.”

In 2009, Bitcoin was launched as a digital currency, creating a way to send and receive money without a central bank. By removing the institutions at the center of banking and finance, Bitcoin effectively eliminates the large fees levied by these organizations on transfers. The appeal of Bitcoin has led to significant growth in this fledgling economy, with the monetary base of Bitcoin valued at more than $600 million and more companies offering Bitcoin payment options. Certified Hosting is one of the few web hosting providers to support Bitcoin payments, allowing those customers that use bitcoins to pay for their services securely, directly from their wallets.

“It is very important that vendors and service providers keep up with what their customers want,” says Carlsen. “Simply, we saw many of our existing customers and new leads were using bitcoins and felt it was our obligation to enable them to use this payment method with us. Bitcoin is a growing, unstable currency, but for those customers who want to eliminate central banks and improve payment privacy, it is a popular choice.”

In a conventional banking system, accounts are always linked to individuals. When customers make a purchase from a store, that store may be given confidential payment details and personal identification information such as a name and address. Bitcoin addresses these privacy issues by eliminating the account system. Whenever bitcoins are transferred, they are sent to a specific Bitcoin address that is identified by a string of characters. No personal information is linked to this address. In addition, one user may have multiple accounts, making it almost impossible to find out the total worth of an individual. Using bitcoins to pay for web hosting from Certified Hosting, customers will experience more privacy and higher security than most other payment methods.

“Data is our business, and we know better than most how data can be exploited,” says Carlsen. “We proactively encourage our customers to take their privacy and security seriously online, but the process of making a payment is by definition a security risk. Although we are very confident that the security practices of the payment card and banking industries are effective, supporting bitcoin payments gives customers another way to keep their data private.”

Current and prospective customers who would like to explore Certified Hosting’s range of web hosting plans are encouraged to visit certifiedhosting.com.

About Certified Hosting

Certified Hosting was established in 1999 as a Southern California-based unlimited web hosting company to provide shared hosting, reseller hosting, and managed dedicated servers to Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, and individuals throughout the world. Recognizing that each client has unique goals, Certified Hosting tailors hosting services to meet the individualized service needs of clients in many specific industries. Some, but not all, Certified Hosting services include unlimited FFmpeg hosting, Flash hosting, WordPress hosting, Dolphin hosting, Elgg hosting, Magento, Joomla, Drupal and PHPmotion hosting, among many other technologies used by webmasters and business owners.

For more information about Certified Hosting, visit http://www.certifiedhosting.com/