UnitedHosting announces partnership with R1Soft for Continuous Data Protection backup technology

London, UK - UnitedHosting (www.unitedhosting.co.uk), a leading provider of US and UK web hosting services is pleased to announce its partnership with R1Soft (www.r1soft.com) for Continuous Data Protection backup technology.

Continuous Data Protection (CDP) allows UnitedHosting to run close to continuous data backups of all its servers and customer data. UnitedHosting have deployed a private network between separate datacenters in order to perform CDP backups to off-site secure locations, providing ultimate piece of mind even during “worst case” scenario situations where data recovery is required.

R1Soft’s technology works at disk sector level, rather than traditional file level. The solution delivers bare-metal disaster recovery meaning in the worst possible circumstances UnitedHosting could completely restore a server from a very recent backup in a matter of minutes not hours. Near-continuous data protection means the difference between loosing only minute’s worth of data in the face of a disaster compared to days or weeks.

Many hosting providers take backups, but they often go untested for reliability, with nobody knowing how well those backups will restore, and in many cases they are not sufficiently up to date. With Continuous Data Protection UnitedHosting maintains an ultra reliable, extremely recent copy of all data, and its stored well away from its primary facilities.

“Our new off-site CDP backups provide our clients with complete piece of mind at many levels. If a customer deletes a file by mistake, it can be restored, but also in the face of any major catastrophe we have a secure, off-site copy of all data which can be restored to new servers in record time” said Matthew Wallis, Director of United Communications Limited.

UnitedHosting’ customers will also be given control panel access to these remote backups, allowing them to restore individual files or entire sites from any point in time over the past couple of weeks.

This announcement follows other recent press releases from UnitedHosting, such as MailFoundry hardware spam filtering, showing the company is committed to the introduction of enterprise level infrastructure to its web hosting services, even for its smallest shared web hosting customers. UnitedHosting is the first provider in the UK to deploy Righteous Software’s CDP technology.