Geographically Distributed Backups for Enhanced Data Protection
We are excited to announce that as of this month we have deployed a system for geographically distributed backups, which minimizes the risk of data loss and аllows for fast data recovery even in case of a serious incident that may affect a whole data center.
Backups are stored in a different physical datacenter from the one hosting the live account
As of this month we started backing up accounts in a datacenter different from the one hosting the live account as follows:
- Iowa, US servers are backed up on machines in Virginia, US
- Virginia, US servers are backed up on machines in Ohio, US
- California, US servers are backed up on machines in Oregon, US
- Texas, US servers are backed up on machines in Southern Carolina, US
- London, UK servers are backed up in Eemshaven, NL
- Frankfurt, DE servers are backed up in Eemshaven, NL
- Madrid, ES servers are backed up in Eemshaven, NL
- Eemshaven, NL servers are backed up in Frankfurt, DE
- Sydney, AU servers are backed up in Singapore, SG
This service is not available for accounts hosted in Singapore for now. These accounts are backed up on different servers within the Singapore facility.
Enhanced data protection
Data storage and safety is a key component of our service and there are multiple risk factors and threats that we keep in mind when coming up with data security solutions. The most common ones are human errors, hardware failure, and hacks. For those occasions, we rely on our daily backups stored on different servers independently from the live account. But then, there are the less likely, yet more damaging risks such as fire, power outage, or a natural disaster that may shut down a whole data center facility. Hosting the backups in a different location means we improve the chances for saving your data and putting it back online even in case of such a serious incident.
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Bill
I’m surprised to learn that with your size you do not have sync-data redundancy for failover at an alternate location rather than having to restore from backup. What is the demonstrated recovery time capability to recover at an alternate location should there be a catastrophic failure at the Los Angeles data center? Our data loss is 24hrs plus at least how long it takes you to recover. Thanks
Gabriela Andonova Siteground Team
Thanks for the question, Bill. All data centers we use have top-level critical components redundancy. In case of a massive server crash, or power outage for a long period of time or a natural disaster, we as your host are responsible to ensure we can restore your data and minimize the downtime. And thanks to our sophisticated backup system, we are able to migrate TBs of data in just a few hours as it allows simultaneous restores from multiple backup instances to multiple production servers. Moreover, we can power up your website on a server that is located in a different country or continent if that is the fastest way to bring it back online.
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