SpiralHost Joins R1Soft Hosting Partner Program for Continuous Data Protection

August 8, 2008; 06:13 AM

COVENTRY, England (August 8, 2008) – European Web hosting provider SpiralHost (http://www.spiralhost.com) announced today it has joined R1Soft’s (http://www.r1soft.com) Hosting Partner Program, an opportunity to help it market and implement the software company’s innovative data backup solution, Continuous Data Protection®.

SpiralHost currently offers Continuous Data Protection® to all customers as a free value-added service, dubbed Rest Easy™. The data protection technology from R1Soft is unique in its ability to provide real-time backup of data, virtually eliminating the threat of data loss in the event of a disaster. Through the R1Soft Hosting Partner Program, SpiralHost will receive access to priority technical support from R1Soft, a variety of sales and marketing resources, and expert assistance on effectively deploying the data protection solution.

“Providing a sound data backup solution for our customers is very important as our company competes in the world market. With R1Soft’s Continuous Data Protection®, we are able to affordably deliver on our promise to do everything we can to safeguard our customers’ data,” said Greg Bales, Managing Director of SpiralHost. “Our Rest Easy™ data protection service has already proven to be an enormous success and we look forward to offering continually more competitive solutions as the needs of our customers change in time.”

Rest Easy™ data protection includes three separate backup schedules for each Shared hosting account: Weekly backups store eight restore points for two months; Daily Backups store 14 restore points for two weeks; and hourly backups store 48 restore points for two days. Customers may specify which files should be backed up.

“SpiralHost has proven its commitment to data protection by rigorously deploying our solution on a variety of levels, especially with its progressive set of backup schedules. We are excited at the opportunity to more closely work with SpiralHost to make Continuous Data Protection® an important asset for their customers,” said David Wartell, Vice President of R1Soft division, BBS Technologies, Inc.

Shared Web hosting from SpiralHost starts at $8/monthly for 4 hosted domains and 1GB of Web space. Each plan includes a set of features for developers and businesses, including unlimited email accounts, domain aliases, and databases. All Shared hosting servers also support PostgreSQL, PHP, Perl, SSI, CGI, Python, Apache ASP, and a variety of Web applications.

In addition to Shared hosting, SpiralHost offers Reseller Hosting, domain name registration, and SSL certificates.

To learn more about SpiralHost, please visit http://www.spiralhost.com.
To learn more about Rest Easy™ from SpiralHost, please visit http://www.spiralhost.com/backup_system.php.

About SpiralHost
Founded in 2001 as a subsidiary of So Be It Web Services Ltd., SpiralHost is a leading provider of Shared Web hosting, reseller Web hosting, domain name registration, and SSL certificates. Based in England, SpiralHost serves individuals and businesses in Europe and North America.