If you are a system administrator and responsible for managing server then it is essential to manage the disk space on your server. Otherwise, you will get the error "the server is running out of disk space". If you have a Tera Bytes of storage then you don't need to clean up your server to free some disk space. But if you have limited disk space then freeing up disk space regularly will be necessary for you. Continue Read
How to connect your Laravel application to use UpCloud S3 for file storage Continue Read
We are happy to announce we have added support for Multiple WordPress backups. This enables businesses who manage many WordPress sites on one server to back them up as one SnapShooter job. Continue Read
We are happy to announce we have added UpCloud S3 storage support to SnapShooter. This means our customers can now use UpCloud Object storage to store their backup jobs data. We are proud to be working more closely with UpCloud with out Snapshot and now object storage support. Continue Read
A number of our customers have been requesting a way to limit the amount of CPU a backup process consumes. This is important to make sure during a backup the server does not dedicate t0o many resources to backups, and that other processes don't suffer, for example, you would not wish for your WordPress sites to become slow. We are proud to release a solution to this issue with an improvement to our new backup engine. At the server level now customers are free to set an uploading bandwidth limit, as well as a chunked upload limit. Continue Read
We are proud to announce our alpha release of GridPane, working with customer Jordan Trask, a business technologies consultant from Canada we have added GridPane as a backup solution for all SnapShooter Customers. Jordan uses GridPane to manage his customer's WordPress sites. It is a fantastic tool for provisioning and managing WordPress installs with any host you wish, DigitalOcean, Amazon Lightsail and UpCloud for example. Continue Read
A little bit of background. The 2nd of November was the launch of SnapShooter’s new backups engine. Now, this brought a lot of improvements to the way we do backups with databases and file systems as well as directly supporting applications. One of the most significant improvements I found was that we do real-time logging from a customers server back to SnapShooter. Unlike before where we would SSH into someone's server and pull the log periodically. This process was far more efficient; the logs would stream directly from customer servers back to SnapShooter. This was probably the biggest unknown for the launch because previously the traffic was relatively low. Server load was all dependent on the queue workers, but now we were going to be processing millions of inbound connections per day. Continue Read
Learn how SnapShooter received its AWS credits. We relieve the process we went thought to access $15k in AWS credits for SnapShooter to expand its storage offering. Continue Read
Introduction SnapShooter Backup Platform, reimagining backups to make it simple for customers to keep secure there applications, databases and file systems SnapShooter is very proud to announce to release of its new backup engine. We have reimagined what is possible with on-server backups and opens the doors for tailored solutions for all. Continue Read
TLDR: 52-70 seconds per GB We often see the question, how long does a DigitalOcean Snapshot take on community forums, so we thought we would look at our past 2.5 million snapshots and come up with an answer, or most probably a range of minutes per GB. For this research, we are only looking at droplet backups. Volume snapshots are 'instant'. They are a point in time disk snapshots which are then compressed and exported away. From the API point of view, if you request the size of a SnapShot after 30 minutes, you will see its billable size shrink as the data is compressed. Continue Read
You maybe have missed the news AWS created a second Linux Distribution, which is optimised to run containers. Bottlerocket is for containers and containers only! Continue Read