So, how good are Arvixe?

[Wishbone]

That Cron would be really helpful. Please post it here

Make a directory called /home/[username]/backup

(replace <username> with your username)

In this directory, create a file called backup.csh containing:

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# Go to the web root
cd ~/public_html

# Get the current time for the archive file name
setenv DATE `date | sed 's/ /_/g'`

# Dump out the database to a file in the web root
mysqldump --opt -u [username] -p'[password]' [database] > backup.$DATE.sql

# Tar up the current directory and place the file in ~/backup
tar cvzf ~/backup/backup.$DATE.tar.z .

# Remove the SQL file
rm -f backup.$DATE.sql

# Find all files in the backup directory older than 30 days and remove it
find ~/backup -name 'backup.*.tar.z' -mtime +30 -exec /bin/rm {} \;

In the code above, replace [username], [password] and [database] with the appropriate values.

The CRON:

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0	0	*	*	*	cat /home/[username]/backup/backup.csh | tcsh

I used to be able to run the backup.csh script directly, but started getting funny errors. I found that piping the file to tcsh works.

Once you test it manually, I would try to revive this data in a test install to make sure that this backup contains absolutely everything you need. You might want to clear out the cache first, or better yet, find a way to have the tar command ignore /tmp completely.

[kendo451]

I recently had to choose a new host for about 100 CMS Made Simple sites. It came down to Rackspace Cloud Sites versus Arvixe.

The deciding factor for me was that Rackspace told me they supported reseller accounts. But that did not turn out to be completely true. The sub accounts do not have the administrative ability of the main account and cannot create new domains.

Far more importantly, the database latency on Cloud Sites kills CMS Made Simple performance.

So, if I had to do it over again, I would with Arvixe. Arvixe is far less expensive for the same services, minus the "cloud".

Having used the "cloud" I'm not so sure it's worth the extra expense as long as you have automated daily backups in place.

Ken

[nmorgan]

What does support entail? Do they offer upgrading of the software or anything like that?

[nmorgan]

When clicking the arvixe banner link you go to : http://abctronics instead of arvixe (carefull it looks like a malware link). Typing in domain directly does get you there so someone at cmsms needs to fix that banner link!

[calguy1000]

fixed... thanks.