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It can't be said enough how important it is for you to have some sort of data backup, to prevent data loss in case your hard disk becomes inaccessible, or in case your whole computer is destroyed or lost. However, while backing up your data is nice, backing up your data so that it's geographically separated and in a different location is much better. Backing up your data in one place (such as your home) is never a good idea because of the chance of fire, theft and other disasters that can happen, which can potentially wipe out your primary and backup data sources. Here are just some causes for computer loss, hard disk loss, or data loss:

The building in which you have your computer and your backups burns down or is destroyed in a natural disaster
Virus infections on your entire local network
Hard disk crashes
Stolen computer

An attractive alternative to backup your data is over the Internet, to a remote storage area, using a FTP hosting service. This is the best way to backup your data, and to ensure that they're not geographically in the same area. This is particularly important if you do most of your work on a laptop, and travel around quite a bit. This increases the risk of having your computer stolen, or that it gets damages by shaking, or wear and tear. FTP (or File Transfer Protocol), is a common standard used for transferring files (upload or download) over the Internet. With FTP software, it makes data backups so easy that you don’t need to be a computer professional to backup your data through FTP. FTP backup is possible with Vodien's FTP hosting plans. With these plans, you can backup your data and important files to our servers using FTP (File Transfer Protocol). This is a practical way to perform remote backup as it allows you to easily store important files and data offsite, and protects you against data loss from a disasters affecting your local computers. Remote backup with our FTP hosting plans is suitable for:

Regular users
FTP hosting can be used as a personal remote backup solution that protects your data against theft, fire or other disasters that could affect your local computers and hardware. If you are always travelling, then a ftp backup service makes sense because you can access your backed up data on the FTP server from any computer, anywhere in the world.
Companies dealing with large files
If you have a company that always needs to transfer large files (e.g. mock-ups, proposals, video) to people all over the place, then always sending them via email will not work. FTP hosting is a good solution because it allows you to upload/download files easily, and also resume uploads/downloads, which is important in the transfer of large files.
Company backups
Most company policies have some form of local backup, but does not protect the company against natural disasters, theft, fire, and local hardware fails that happen to the office. A remote backup solution with FTP hosting addresses this problem.

Visit this page to see a list of the FTP hosting plans that Vodien provides. For a list of video tutorials that we have, please visit our FTP video tutorials page.

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10 Mar 2010 10:11 AM