10 minutes ago, i receive email from serviceuptime.com, a uptime monitoring services that i subscribed to monitor the website uptime. This powweb review blog is hosted with powweb.com, and its a demo or test site for me to monitor the uptime level. Following are the downtime details and downtime location:
Down Time: 20/08/2007 07:55:37 (GMT-08:00)
Atlanta, GA, United States (72.232.37.110)
San Jose, CA, United States (66.79.164.26)
When i visited this powweb review blog, its appear to be running. If the powweb server down, i will need to initiate live chat with powweb support to get it fix instantly. Seem like only the route between atlanta and san jose only having problem. And i guess the dowtime is not global or caused at the powweb server site. To confirm this, i did a tracert to powwebreview.org, and able to reach it as well. So, this is mainly the ISP downtime.
As i said long time before, this powweb review will cover the good and bad of powweb hosting plan. And now, its covering more that that… 
the ISP as well. Have to keep the scope smaller i guess.
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Today after two weeks this blog is running at powweb hosting, its time to get serious to business, and secure the site. I mean make sure the data is safe and backup. I dont want to lost it, when server crash etc. Not that in shared hosting environment, anything disaster could happen. Its adviced that you do backup of your website daily or weekly. I choose to backup weekly on my blog hosted with powweb. Not much updates per week. Its fine with me.
Login to powweb OPS, and under the website management, you will see the site backups and restore. Click on it. Powweb Site Backups and Restore tool allows you to restore files from PowWeb’s system backups. You have the option of restoring files automatically by replacing your current files with the backed-up versions or downloading them and restoring your content manually.
PowWeb’s system backups are only kept for a few days. So, you are adviced to backup your websites locally and keep a good archieve of it. This will be useful when you need to restore your websites. One problem is that you can not use the backup and restore tools to restore SQL databases. Meaning you have to take a trip to phpmyadmin to do the database importing.
I ticked on the htdocs/ folder and click the download zip archieve on the bottom. After that i was prompt with a “siteBackups” documents, and asked to save it locally. This backup is directly, and not need to wait or email to me thing as we see in cpanel backup tools. The zip backups start downloading and done in short time. My site is not big, so backup is easier. I keep this backup at my local Pc, and the backup job is done.
Powweb is a good $5.77 hosting plan with 300GB storage space.
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