Web hosting backup services are essential for protecting your website from unexpected disasters like cyberattacks, accidental deletions, server crashes, or software conflicts. A reliable backup ensures that, if something goes wrong, you can quickly restore your site to a previous working version—minimizing downtime, data loss, and disruption to your business. Without regular backups, even a small issue could lead to significant setbacks, lost revenue, or damaged reputation. Investing in automated, secure backup services gives you peace of mind and keeps your online presence resilient and recoverable.
Your web hosting provider is only as good as its backup and disaster recovery. Over the last 15 years we have experienced about every emergency server data hosting issue you can think of. We have also used many different backup strategies and software packages. In 2011, we invested significant resources and time to redo our entire backup system and disaster recovery plan. We partnered with R1Soft.com and deployed the Continuous Data Protection (CDP) Enterprise Backup software. Our normal basic web hosting includes backups of each website nightly and 10 days of backups for each website. We can easily restore your entire website or restore individual files at no charge to you. We include backups with web hosting and they are full service backups. The client does not have to set them up or do anything, we do all of the work for you.
Continuous Data Protection® Enterprise Edition
IDP has deployed CDP agents on all of its web servers. CDP provides high performance disk to disk backup service for physical and virtual servers, Microsoft and Linux operating systems. R1Soft is especially known for its Linux server backup solution and Linux expertise. CDP provides us a web based data safe® repository of server restore points. Continuous Data Protection® is the name of R1Soft’s proprietary high-performance backup method.
MySQL Database Enterprise Backup Protection
The MySQL CDP add-on backups MySQL databases online with minimal disk I/O load and impact using R1Soft’s Continuous Data Protection for MySQL. No interruption takes place during MySQL backup. 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 less than 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.
Disaster Recovery
R1Soft CDP 3.0 provides both regular file restores as well as a true block-level bare-metal restore capability. In the event of server hardware failure or operating system failure, you must restore the entire web server before your web site would be back online. We install CDP Agent’s into each VMWare Virtual Machine you are protecting as well as physical machines. We can restore VMWare Virtual Machines using a bare-metal restore method by booting the virtual machine from an ISO or PXE Network boot image. This is the fastest method of restore bypassing the VMs file system to stream blocks directly to the virtual disk. We restore physical machines in a similar way. CDP completely restores the file system and allocated blocks. This is best when restoring all or most of a disk’s (file system’s) files. This is typically Much Faster than file-by-file restore for large numbers of files, which decreases our disaster recovery time. CDP reduces the steps for Server Disaster Recovery.
FAQ
A Web Hosting Backup Service automatically creates and stores copies of your website’s data (files, databases, emails) to protect against data loss from hacking, server failures, user errors, or malware.
Backups help restore your website quickly in case of accidental deletions, hacking, updates gone wrong, or other issues. Without backups, recovery can be time-consuming or even impossible.
While it generally depends on service, we perform backups nightly for all of the sites that we host. We keep 10 days of backups for each site and can restore anything free of charge.
We perform backups on all web pages, files, databases, emails, and anything else that your site needs backed up.
No! We backup our sites automatically every night, when there are little to no visitors. This prevents slow down during peak hours when your site is receiving more traffic.
Web Design Customer Testimonials
Berkley Alliance Managers
Berkley Alliance Managers
Working with IDP is fantastic! We’ve developed several websites together and I appreciate how creative, resourceful and helpful they are. Their customer service is outstanding – professional, knowledgeable and friendly. The entire company is agile and responsive, helping at every turn to make issues opportunities and opportunities successes. I can’t wait to work on our next project together. I highly recommend IDP!
Alliance Insurance Brokerage
Alliance Insurance Brokerage
To be a client for 10 years, IDP is obviously doing business the right way. Their expertise and customer service is beyond comparison. I highly recommend them.
Southwest Risk
Southwest Risk
We worked with IDP on two insurance pool website designs. From the start, IDP’s impressive communication skills, patience, and speed have helped us meet our deadlines and bring beautiful, functional sites to our customers. They provide excellent service to everyone they deal with, which became obvious when a third party change recently affected our site. IDP reacted immediately, and the solid relationship they had in place with the third party led to a quick fix, with minimal client disruption. Now I am confident the web hosting phase will run as smoothly as development has! I highly recommend IDP to businesses in need of their service.
Doug Herriott, OD
Eyecare Associates of Lees Summit
We have use IDP for several years. We had a professionally designed website for many years with another company but found when we searched for ourselves we seldom came up on the first page in organic search. Once we switched to IDP within a few weeks we were coming up on the top of organic search in several keywords relating to our business. We have remained that way as IDP has periodically made changes in our website to keep our content current and relevant for the search engines. One of the reasons we were slow to switch was the perceived amount of it would take to redo the website. This was not the case. We had to give some basic content but IDP quickly built us a very nice and effective website. We were very pleased at how turn key the process was. Monte and his staff really do a wonderful job. I cannot say enough good things about them or how pleased we are with the product and services they provide.
Kids TLC
Kids TLC
IDP created a much more SEO and user friendly website for us nearly 5 years ago. They provide very prompt, courteous and accurate support! IDP looks for cost effective web option to help us maximize our site, when necessary.
The Auto Clinic
The Auto Clinic
IDP has become a very important piece of the marketing strategy for The Auto Clinic. IDP has given our company a strong presence on the internet. I continue to receive positive comments related our website design from our customers and associates in the Lee’s Summit business community. Also, since IDP initiated their internet search engine advertising strategies, we have found more and more of our new customers are discovering our company through internet searching. Our positioning on the internet has allowed us to put our logo in front of our new and repeat customers. I have been very satisfied with my company’s exposure for the dollars spent.
Jason Y. Lundgren Vice President
Young Management Corporation
I just wanted to take time to let you know how much we appreciate the web hosting / web design services you have provided us the past several years. I’ll never forgot how concerned I was when my past web host went out of business and forced me to look elsewhere. I thought I had a good web host, but once I switched to IDP it wasn’t long before I realized the quality of services IDP provides are far superior to those I had been receiving!
Recreation Wholesale
Recreation Wholesale
We’ve been with Jill, Monte and the crew for roughly six years and they are awesome. We had tons of trouble with companies coming and going and our SEO just not working. Go IDP has taken all the stress out of our site and they are QUICK to respond. Can’t recommend them highly enough.
Brad Runnebaum
PlatinumOne Insurance
The entire team at Internet Design & Publishing has been fantastic to work with. I recommend them to everyone that I know.
Vaught Roofing, Inc.
Vaught Roofing, Inc.
I just wanted to take time to let you know how much we appreciate the web hosting / web design services you have provided us the past several years. I’ll never forgot how concerned I was when my past web host went out of business and forced me to look elsewhere. I thought I had a good web host, but once I switched to IDP it wasn’t long before I realized the quality of services IDP provides are far superior to those I had been receiving! Since choosing IDP to be my webhost some 7+ years ago, you have performed services which have improved my search engine results to a level I never expected possible (i.e. #1 or #2 ranking on just about every pertinent search criteria)!
HumanaNatura Natural Health Community
HumanaNatura Natural Health Community
IDP helped to turn our good website into a great one, with their redesign resulting in a web traffic increase of 600% in the first three months. The team is knowledgeable, patient, and easy to work with – taking our ideas, bringing their own, and synthesizing our best thinking into reality. Our globally-oriented site now has the level of polish that it needed, making our content come alive and attracting much greater interest and word of mouth referrals. Thanks guys!
Kari Burchett
Eyecare Associates of Osawatomie
A great job customizing our business web page, made great suggestions to improve upon our own ideas and delivered a product exactly how we wanted! Highly recommend.
Kerry McCane
After referring a couple of clients to IDP for products, I’ve finally had the opportunity to work with them directly on a complete redesign of my company’s website. They have been fantastic to work with – knowledgeable, thorough and very, very patient. They are willing and able to take on the needs of very unique businesses, companies that need much more than just a basic ecommerce presence. I look forward to continuing to work with the team as we continue to launch new products that require even more challenging integrations.
Nick A. Cutrera
Law Offices of Nick A. Cutrera, LLC
I was satisfied with my firm’s existing website when a friend recommended that I ask IDP to evaluate it. I decided that an evaluation wouldn’t hurt, and I’m glad I did. IDP transformed our website from a generic, informational site into our second biggest revenue generator, only behind client referrals. The website has been so successful in generating new business that I have been able to substantially reduce marketing dollars spent elsewhere. In addition, IDP’s fast response to requests for changes to the site is impressive. I recommend IDP to any company looking to grow its business and to better serve its existing customers.
Etap Communications
Etap Communications
We began working with IDP on a mutual client’s website redesign. They were so easy to work with and were always available to answer any questions. The process to get the new site up was seamless and the client was extremely pleased too!
Loren Shanks
Community Buying Group
Monte and Jill are great to work with. We’ve used them for several projects and have always done a great job! They do great work in a short amount of time. Our company has every intention to continue to use them in the future.
Performance Furniture
Performance Furniture
About 3 years ago we were searching for a new web design and SEO company, and when we put the word out we were looking 3 separate companies recommended IDP. In fact we had very few other recommendations. We have a unique direct sales strategy for our high end TV Furniture, TV Cabinets, and TV Consoles and IDP has helped us to market Performance Furniture locally as well as nationwide. Their approach to SEO is very straightforward where we know what is happening and can track our results. Very satisfied with IDP.
Thoroughbred Ford
Thoroughbred Ford
We have worked with Internet Design & Publishing since 2003 and they have been nothing but fantastic. Their response time to our requests is incredible. They have helped us redesign our websites, several times and every time they finish on time and on budget. They manage our internet marketing and are always on top of it. When we have asked for the impossible, they have always found a way to work it out. I am constantly impressed with their knowledge and creativity. I could not recommend another website designer more. Should anyone be looking for more information on IDP, feel free to contact us.
Kennedy Graphics
Kennedy Graphics
It was a pleasure working with IDP. They gave us a quote that was easy to understand and competetitively priced. Everything was completed on or before schedule and within budget. We made some additions/tweaks to the system during the process and to our delight they responded promptly and handled all of our concerns and helped us figure out how to accomplish our goals. Follow-up after the project has been excellent. We will certainly look to IDP for our future needs and have already recommended them to several business associates and friends.
Project One Integrated Services
Project One Integrated Services
IDP finally allowed us to have a quality website that reflects our company, message and high level of service we provide to our clients. The process went smoothly and quickly and we are thrilled with the final results. I would recommend using IDP to any company with website needs.
Brian Buffington
iResQ
I have been working with IDP since around 2010 (currently 2016) and am pleased with their work. They are fair and trustworthy. I have recommended them to several friends and colleagues and will continue to do so.
Amanda Covey
The Tub Connection
I’ve worked with IDP in the past but never as extensively, nor in as large a capacity as we have for the last 18 months. The projects we have completed have required grave attention to detail and near constant communication which I am happy to say made all the difference in the world. I recommend IDP highly, and look forward to working with them in the future!
