Guardian Backup by XeonBD
We are very glad to introduce our latest backup service which have been LIVE for you already. In the following para you will be shortly briefed about our Guardian backup solution.
Guardian backup is a fully managed robust backup solution that provides continuous data protection and off-site disaster recovery for your own hosting. Guardian backup uses replication and synchronization, with point-in-time snap shots, to provide up to the minute data protection of your complete server configuration. Guardian directly reads your hard disk volumes at the sector level, bypassing the file system for the ultimate in performance and recovery. Our disk sector synchronization is performed while the server is online and causes no interruption to I/O requests, even on a busy hour. By reading the disk at the lowest possible level, Guardian captures incremental recovery images containing your files and all the required information for complete disaster recovery.
Guardian Backup Features
- Continuous Backups During normal host operation, the Guardian agent keeps a journal of disk changes. Incremental backups know what sectors on the disk have changed before the backup operation even starts. Guardian's method is less resource intensive than tradition file-by-file or block-by-block backup methods.
- Incremental Snapshots Our technology provides consistent point-in-time system-wide backup images.
- Bare-Metal Disaster Recovery Restore servers directly from disk-based backup. Unlike traditional backup software, there is NO need to first partition your drive and install the operating system. Bare-Metal-Recovery greatly increases the speed of complete system recovery from a catastrophic failure.
- High Performance, Low System Impact Sector based backups increase throughput and reduce overhead. Servers can be fully operational with minimal performance impact during backups. Backups can usually be performed at anytime, even on busy hour.
For your more clarification like to include that at a point each day a full backup is taken, that backup is updated each hour after that until the same time the next day, at which point it is archived as the final daily backup for that day, there are seven days retained. The daily service also includes 4 weekly backups and 3 monthly backups being archived. So if you want to restore your site in a previous point to recover any disaster you can submit a ticket to us. Currently Guardian backup only supporting all the Linux shared hosting account.
If you still have any confusion regarding this service please open a ticket from your client area under sales department and our representative will get back to you to meet your thirst.
XeonBD’s Softaculous
XeonBD’s Softaculous auto-installer offers you the ability to quickly and easily install over 140 different web applications. You can choose from an expansive selection of software for Blogging, Mailing lists, E-Commerce, Wikis, Image Galleries, Project Management, Music and Video Management, and much more.
Blogging Software:
Blogs and Micro Blogs are sites that are formatted similar to a journal. They may have a topic that they focus on, like cars or technology, and can be used by both businesses and people. The best blogs are active and have new content added often.
A sample of the available blog and micro blog software:
| WordPress WordPress MU (MultiUser) Dotclear |
Serendipity Open Blog StatusNet |
Portals/CMS:
Portals and Content Management Systems (CMSs) help you easily manage the content of your website without having to build the entire framework. You start with a base structure already, and build on top of that, allowing you to create and customize a beautiful website more quickly.
A sample of the available Portal/CMS software:
| Dolphin Drupal Zikula |
Geeklog Joomla Concrete5 |
Forums:
A forum is a communication and interaction based site built on visitor and user generated content where users can interact with you and each other.
A sample of the available forum software:
| Advanced Electron Forums MyBB |
Simple Machines Forum phpBB |
Image Galleries:
Image gallery software is designed as a simple way for you to share photos or images while maintaining complete control over the content and its legal rights.
A sample of the available gallery software:
| TinyWebGallery Piwigo |
Gallery ZenPhoto |
Wikis:
A wiki is traditionally thought of as a universally editable knowledge sharing website designed with the idea that many heads are better than one. Security settings within the software will allow you to set who can edit what data.
A sample of the available wiki software:
| MediaWiki DokuWiki |
TikiWiki |
Ad Management:
The ad management software in this list allow you to easily create and maintain a site for sharing classified ads. Use this software to allow your users to communicate their interest in a product, or sell their property or product.
A list of the available ad management software:
| NoahClassifieds Kamads |
OpenX PHPads |
eCommerce:
eCommerce software is meant to help you quickly and easily create and manage a site that allows you to sell products to people that visit your site. Hassle-free one click installations allow for you to start making money sooner.
A sample of the available eCommerce software:
| OpenCart Magento osCommerce |
PrestaShop WHMCS Zen Cart |
Calendars:
Calendars are a good way to share important information about your business, upcoming events within your company, and product update or launch dates. These calendars are simple to use and come with an easy to navigate administration interface.
A list of the available calendar software:
| WebCalendar phpScheduleIt |
phpicalendar |
Gaming:
Add entertainment to your site and keep visitors on your site for longer by installing and adding these one-click install games to your website.
A sample of the available games software:
| BlackNova Traders Shadows Rising |
Multiplayer Checkers |
Mail and Mailing lists:
Email is one of the most common and popular ways to mass communicate information. Using a mailing list software you can allow your customers to sign up for alerts about product changes, sales, and advancements for your company.
A sample of the available mail related software:
| phpList SquirrelMail |
poMMo ccMail |
Polls and Surveys:
Customer and visitor feedback can be absolutely essential to your website’s success. Engaging your visitors will make them remember your site, and come back for more. Use any of the software below to add polling and surveying to your site.
A sample of the available poll and survey software:
| LimeSurvey LittlePoll Piwik |
phpESP Advanced Poll |
Project Management:
No matter how big or small the project, or how many people involved, keeping track of the many moving parts will increase your productivity and keep your company delivering. The one-click installation of any of the software below means you start producing sooner.
A sample of the available project management software:
| SugarCRM Mantis Bug Tracker |
ProjectPier dotProject |
Guest Books:
Allow your visitors to let you know what they think about your site in their own words by installing a guestbook software. The feedback you get could mean a huge difference in growing your traffic.
A sample of the available guest book software:
| Lazarus Advanced Guestbook |
phpBook |
Customer Support:
If you offer any kind of service, offering support to your customers is a must. Using a help desk system like any of the ones below can offer a streamlined and logical alternative to simple email support.
A sample of the available customer support software:
| Help Center Live osTicket |
HESK Open Web Messenger |
Music/Video:
Keeping your content fresh and engaging is essential to attracting to clients. Include professional quality audio and video media on your site with ease using any of the software below.
A sample of the available music and video management software:
| kPlaylist ClipBucket |
Podcast Generator VidiScript |
JavaScript Libraries:
Softaculous also allows you to install many different JavaScript libraries with ease. Below are a few of the scripts that Softaculous offers.
script.aculo.us
script.aculo.us provides you with easy-to-use, cross-browser user interface JavaScript libraries to make your web sites and web applications fly. script.aculo.us is a set of JavaScript libraries to enhance the user interface of web sites. It provides an visual effects engine, a drag and drop library (including sortable lists), a couple of controls (Ajax-based autocompletion, in-place editing, sliders) and more.
jQuery
jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development.
Ext JS
Ext JS is a JavaScript platform that helps you build sustainable applications, and is best for rapid development of cross-browser web apps.
February 2010 Server Uptime Record
Overall, our premium hosting performance reached 99.999% up time in February 2010 and just had 0.001% critical time due to the regular server maintenance to improve further service. So the table of uptime is remained same, no changes as similar as the last couple of months.
Linux Dedicated Server Up time Record
| Service | % OK | % Critical |
| FTP | 100.000% | 0.000% |
| HTTP | 100.000% | 0.000% |
| MySQL | 100.000% | 0.000% |
| SMTP | 100.000% | 0.000% |
| POP | 100.000% | 0.000% |
As you can review in the table above, our cPanel next generation advanced Premium Hosting server performance for all services reached out 100% up time during the month of August. Based on this report, we believe that we have proven that we have given premium service in our Premium cPanel Hosting plans.
January 2010 Server Uptime Record
No change at all. The uptime record we are publishing during the last few months is still remains same. Again xeonbd's own dedicated server showed it's stability and performance. See the following uptime record of January of XeonBD's own server.
Linux Dedicated Server Up time Record
| Service | % OK | % Critical |
| FTP | 100.000% | 0.000% |
| HTTP | 100.000% | 0.000% |
| MySQL | 100.000% | 0.000% |
| SMTP | 100.000% | 0.000% |
| POP | 100.000% | 0.000% |
You can also view the live time server status by yourself too from here.
https://www.xeonbd.com/clients/serverstatus.php
IMAP vs POP3 E-Mail
If you contact support regarding an e-mail problem one of the questions we will ask you is how you are accessing your e-mail. If you are using a client such as Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Mac OS X Mail, or any other modern e-mail application we will ask if you are using POP3 or IMAP for your incoming e-mail.
There are pros and cons to both methods, but with some careful consideration of what is most important to the user(s) you can make a (well) informed decision.
IMAP: Internet Message Access Protocol
IMAP has seen a huge increase in everyday use within the past few years for several reasons.
- Pros:
- All mail is stored on the server.
- Messages will appear the same way every time you set up a new e-mail client, no need to move messages.
- You can switch between an e-mail client and webmail at any time and still have the same messages.
- If your computer crashes and you lose the data stored on your hard drive your e-mail is still safe, because it is stored on the server.
- Makes it easier to access your e-mail using a smartphone because the messages are not removed from the server.
- Cons:
- Your mail is only available on the server, so you may not be able to interact with old messages if you are unable to connect to the internet. Some mail clients have optional settings that can help with this problem, but not all of them.
- In the event of catastrophic server hardware failure you could potentially lose some e-mail (but you also have this same risk when using POP3 to download messages to your local computer).
- Folders may appear slightly different in your e-mail client using IMAP instead of POP3. This is because the folders are stored on the server instead of locally on your computer.
Most modern webmail interfaces use IMAP to display your account’s e-mail.
POP3: Post Office Protocol, version 3
POP3 is the third version of the Post Office Protocol, and is more commonly used by dial-up Internet Service Providers (ISPs) because POP3 tends to work better on slower internet connections. Instead of having the server do most of the work managing messages (IMAP) the POP3 protocol downloads the messages to the local computer and then manages them
on your computer’s hard drive. Some dial-up ISPs only provide POP3 e-mail access and do not allow IMAP connections.
- Pros:
- If you want to manage your e-mail through one main interface POP3 can put all of your messages in one place.
- Messages are stored locally so you can always access your e-mail, even when you can’t get online.
- Opening attachments is generally easier with most clients because the attachments are downloaded with the message simultaneously.
- Because your messages are downloaded to your computer your disk space limits are only defined by the size of your computer’s hard drive.
- Cons:
- Malicious javascript, viruses, and other malware has a better chance of infecting your computer because each message is 100% local.
- If your local computer has the only copy of your e-mail then you risk data loss if your hard drive fails and you don’t have proper backups. Servers usually tend to have better backups available.
- E-mail clients using POP3 can be set to leave messages on the server, but as your mailbox on the server grows in size it will take longer and longer for the client application to check for new e-mail (because it will have to check what it has download against what is on the server and then download the new messages).
POP3 is still the most commonly used e-mail protocol because of its simplicity when run in its most basic configuration and its age/reliability. The more complicated a protocol or service is the more likely it is to create more complex support situations.
Making Your Choice
Deciding which e-mail protocol is right for you is entirely dependent upon your needs and what you are doing with that particular e-mail account.
Strong cases for IMAP:
Strong cases for POP3:
These are just a few examples of when to choose each protocol. If you have any questions or would like our opinion regarding the best option for your particular situation please contact the XeonBD support department using the information below.
For a more technical overview of IMAP and POP3 please see the following recommended links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMAP
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POP3