VPS Backupsy

[Matt]

I initially heard of Backupsy from WebHostingTalk, and was on the lookout for a backup solution, so thought I would give them a try.

When I initially signed up, I was using their Netherlands location.

A few weeks later, they announced their UK location, so I moved my setup into that site.

https://backupsy.com/aff.php?aff=128

Pricing: 10/10

• Very competitive pricing, and usually a very good offer running for a nice discount.

Ease of Use: 10/10

• Easy to use Control Panel
• Easily re-install the OS if you break something, or fancy a change.

Features: 9/10

• Pretty much does what it says on the tin. It's a backup VPS.
• Fast network speed.
• Reliable

Overall: 9.5/10

 

[Matt]

Some technical background regarding their setup. They are specifically aimed as a Backup solution, so come with 512MB RAM and 1vCPU



They support a wide range of OS setups. I'm using Ubuntu 13.10 with SSH / RSYNC / RSNAPSHOT running.......and that's it

# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 13.10
Release:        13.10
Codename:       saucy

 

[Matt]

Control Panel
A quick overview of the control panel they are using:


You have the basic controls over the VPS, along with an overview of the resources used over the last hour

 

[Matt]

Setup
Setup of the initial OS is done via the Reinstall tab

You can choose one of the many available images to load onto your VPS.



Re-installing if you have an OS already on there is done via the same method.

 

[Matt]

# df -h
Filesystem           Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg-root  491G  107G  360G  23% /
none                 4.0K     0  4.0K   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev                 239M  4.0K  239M   1% /dev
tmpfs                 50M  544K   49M   2% /run
none                 5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
none                 248M     0  248M   0% /run/shm
none                 100M     0  100M   0% /run/user
/dev/vda1            223M   57M  154M  28% /boot
/dev/mapper/vg-tmp   945M  1.2M  879M   1% /tmp

# uptime
10:44:39 up 106 days, 19:33,  1 user,  load average: 0.29, 0.18, 0.11

 

[Nyx]

Do you still use this service?

 

[Matt]

Do you still use this service?

I don’t use it for my own backups, but plenty of my customers do.

 

[toad]

im still using it, many years now,
matts been taking care of it all these years, what a great guy

i learned rsync last week, and i was amazed,
i used to delete and then re-copy all my files, but with rysnc, its sync,

someday i'll be as good as matt in server stuff, but i dont have much time to learn