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Thursday, November 17th, 2011
Internet Design & Publishing has partnered with R1Soft Enterprise Backup Solution in order to provide more reliable backups and quicker disaster recovery. Our customers rely on us to backup their web sites and quickly restore them if web hosting servers fail or become unresponsive. Our new backup software creates multiple restore points for recovering data and provides disaster recovery with a bare metal restore feature.
Continuous Data Protection (CDP) 3.0 Enterprise Edition is high performance disk to disk backup softare for physical and virtual servers, featuring a central management interface and data repository. CDP reduces server backup time from hours to minutes. There is a web based administration control panel that allows complete access to the data repository that holds all of the server and web site backups. The software is specially designed for web hosting providers running both Linux and Windows environments. R1Soft is especially known for their Linux server expertise and Linux file system backup solution.
IDP has also purchased and installed the MySQL enterprise agent addon. When it comes to backups MySQL databases require special handling. There are a variety of MySQL backup methods available and they all work differently. The R1Soft CDP for MySQL Add-on integrates Continuous Data Protection® with an online hot backup (snapshot) of MySQL databases to provide fast, efficient and safe MySQL backups. Both MyISAM and InnoDB storage engines require that tables be locked and flushed before a backup operation can take place. The R1Soft MySQL Add-on ensures that this happens and carefully coordinates it with the point-in-time file system snapshot.
Linux – MySQL Snapshots are performed by coordinating a brief (usually < 1 second) MySQL LOCK AND FLUSH with the CDP Linux snapshot device driver.
If you use CDP to backup MySQL and don’t use the R1Soft MySQL Add-on then the table lock and flush operation won’t take place – with the result that your MySQL backup will likely be corrupt.
IDP continues to grow and improve it’s services. Our new backup solution will allow us to provide more reliable backups of our web hosting environment and allow us to recover quicker from disaster.
Click here to learn more about our backup solution and disaster recovery plan.
Thursday, August 11th, 2011
IDP’s email server runs on the Atmail software. Atmail is an email server application similar to a Microsoft Exchange server except that it runs on Linux. We have transitioned our email clients over to our new Atmail email server in 2011.
Many clients have asked about syncing the webmail with Outlook, so that they can get their contacts and calendar into the webmail program. This can be done fairly easily by downloading the Atmail Outlook websync program and installing it within Outlook. Here are some instructions and the link to download the sync program:
Outlook Websync now available in Atmail 6.1
http://atmail.com/blog/2009/outlook-websync-now-available-in-atmail-61/
Thursday, April 21st, 2011
The Internet Cloud has taken a beating today. Many hosting companies who use cloud based hosting services are down today. There is a widespread reliance on Amazon Web Services for hosting a lot of web sites around the world. See this article from the Associated Press.
Amazon failure takes down sites across Internet
Cloud computing has become very popular. The idea of just purchaing the space and resources that you need and hosting it somewhere in a cloud sounds great. But what happens when there is a central point of failure and hours of downtime?
IDP owns and maintains all of our own web hosting hardware. We have physical dell servers in our rack at Netstandard data center in Kansas City. That is a good thing today! The cloud burst! Be happy if your web site is hosted with IDP.
Monday, January 31st, 2011
The new IDP Email Server is now in production. This has been a 6 month project, full of delays and unexpected technology hurdles. We are very excited to have the new server in production!!
IDP selected Atmail Email software for our new server software. Atmail Email server and Atmail Webmail software is a robust enterprise level email system. Our users will be switching from our old Squirrel Mail program to the new Atmail Webmail program. It is a dramatic improvement.
IDP company email has been running on the new server since 1/24/11. Our first customers were migrated over the weekend. We have 780 email users running on 111 domains that will need to be migrated. We are working thru the migrations alphabetically, one domain at a time. If you would like to request an earlier migration email support@goidp.com .
Once we schedule your email migration, we will email you instructions. After your accounts are migrated you will need to login to the new webmail, reset the password and customize some other settings. Then your email accounts will have to be updated to point to the new server at email.goidp.com. Both incoming and outgoing server is email.goidp.com. Webmail is at http://email.goidp.com
An Atmail User Guide is available here: http://www.atmail.com/support/index.php/Atmail6/UserGuide
