Hostmonster Review & Discount $3.95/mth – Host Monster Hosted

Before this we review about hostmonster hosting plan with its backup feature, you can read more about that review at here. This is another review article which extend into more details about hostmonster web hosting and their hosting backup feature.

Hostmonster shared hosting plan is come with Courtesy Site Backups feature, and hostmonster support team did perform schedule site backup for your hosting files and data. However this is at their discretion and not 100% guarantee of timely backup data.

“Important: Hostmonster.com assumes no responsibility for failed backups, lost data, or data integrity. Hostmonster.com is unable to provide copies or create automatic backups for sites above 4 gigabytes in size. You may create your own copies using SSH/Shell Access. If you need help using SSH/Shell Access please see our article on SSH Commands“

Hence its adviced to use the hostmonster cpanel backup utility to perform regular site backup. What you can do is either use the “manual backup” or the “backup wizard” to get the job done. Manual backup allow you to instantly backup your hosting main directory, database files, email forwarders and email filters. Else you can use the backup wizard that have backup and restore feature, that you can download backup copy or restore backup copy of files. Make sure you keep a copy of your web files and database files at your local computer. We had backup our hostmonster hosting main directory files & database files regulary, please do the same for your hostmonster hosting account too

Hostmonster shared hosting is budget web hosting selling at $3.95/mo special promo price, and its with complete file backup features inside.

From Hostmonster hosting’s cpanel X, you can find the backup tools and utilities. It’s a free tools included in every user account. You are adviced to periodically backup your site. The frequency of backup is depend on how often you make changes to your website. For my cases, where i update the website once a week, i will do backup after i make the new changes.

The website backup utility covering backup of your cpanel setting, and also database backup. For mysql backup, as an alternative, you also can use the phpmyadmin to backup the database through their export utility.

Its adviced that you copy and save the copy of the backup files in “.tar.gz format. For windows user, just save it as a normal file. And this is the file that you need to restore back your website in case of hostmonster server crash.

Although the server is daily backup by hostmonster support, its still not 100% fully guarantee of anything. We need to take account of human error as well. So, here is why the backup tools is in place to privide you easiest way to backup your website and database.

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