It goes without saying that we are big fans of DigitalOcean. Their virtual private servers are easy to use, scale up and they offer great performance for the price. We’ve built many sites and apps there over the years, and we’re excited to see them add new tools like the App platform and Kubernetes support. DigitalOcean is a great spot to spin up a server for a production website or app. It’s also a great place to build out a proof of concept idea that’s been kicking around in your head. We’ve fired up our share of droplets for this very reason. Continue Read
We are the proud new owners of SnapShooter.com and will be transitioning to that domain name over the coming months. Continue Read
Here at SnapShooter, we love data. We love moving it around and we love analyzing it to see where we can make our processes and services more efficient. We’ve been working on some new tools lately to allow you to see some of your server’s key performance indicators while you run a SnapShooter backup. Running a backup takes server resources: namely CPU cycles, RAM and networking bandwidth. Being able to know how much and when these resources are used is a critical piece of data - and we have added this data right to our SnapShooter platform. Continue Read
We’re excited to launch our new S3 Sync tool. This new service at SnapShooter allows you to sync, move and shift data from one S3-compatible data storage service to another. This means you can easily move data from Amazon to Backblaze or DigitalOcean Spaces over to Firebase Cloud Storage and so on. If you’ve got data to move or sync, this is the tool for you. Continue Read
There's a popular saying: "the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." The same thinking works for your data backup strategy. If you have been putting off backup planning (or if it's time to review your strategy), now is a great time to put the work in. Continue Read
You can see CPU steal when using the top command. In the hypervisor world, CPU steal can be seen as the hypervisor limiting your ability to use CPU cycles. In the significantly worse cause, your provider could be overselling there hardware, and the steal is coming from your neighbours sharing the physical hardware. I noticed from the screenshot that the server was a t3.medium. The T series processes at AWS are sold as burstable instances. They are not designed to be used at max capacity. If your server only sees a high load 20% of the time, it is perfect. At SnapShooter, we make hefty use of them as our ingestion load is very busty. Most people do backups at the hour mark, so our load always peaks for 5-10minutes after every hour. Continue Read
We are delighted to announce that we have added Scaleway for our backup support. You’ll be able to carry out your Scaleway volume backups from a single location. And, with our unique dashboard you’ll be able to back up Scaleway instances volumes hourly, daily or weekly. Continue Read
Need to get better insights on your DigitalOcean Spending? We have the prefect tool to keep an eye on your DigitalOcean costs. Monitor, Droplets, Apps, Volumes, Snapshots, Databases and Load Balancers. Continue Read
We are happy to announce we have added our new backup engine's ability to restore multiple files at once. When we launched our new backup system, we were happy with our one-click restore process. For example, you could restore on a MySQL database, and we would automatically SSH to your server and run the import. With our the latest update, you can select many files and restore them together. When you manage a backup, you will see the option to choose one or many files. Continue Read
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
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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