Secure Your Data: Essential Tips for Safeguarding Information on Hosting Servers
We can see an incident that occurred some time ago, namely the fire in the Cyber Building. This is the building that houses the data centers of several cloud-hosting companies in Indonesia.
After yesterday's fire, several companies experienced downtime. Yes, because the power went out, and of course the server device was damaged. Not to mention external factors involving other agencies. In the end, this force majeure event had a worse impact on several website owners. There are even websites that can't be accessed for up to a week.
The hosting company also finds it difficult to restore, because the backup data cannot be moved.
Of course, we should be able to use this incident as a lesson for all website owners. Whether yesterday was affected or not, whether they rented hosting/servers from local or foreign companies.
Because we cannot predict force majeure events like this. Incidents like this are indeed rare, but if they happen, they can harm us from all sides.
Steps to Maintain Data on Hosting Server
For you website owners, whether for shared hosting services, cloud hosting, VPS, dedicated servers, or others, you need to take these steps to keep your data safe.
1. Perform regular backups
It is very important to back up data regularly. If you have a website that updates new content every day, for example, a news website, this means you need to do it more often. You should do a backup every day.
Doing this backup is very important because we don't know whether the service we use tomorrow is safe or not. Yes, even though it is a little troublesome, this will be very useful for us whenever things happen that we don't want.
2. Backup to Another Place
Usually, when you rent a hosting service, there will also be an Auto Backup service or Backup menu that can be used at any time.
But my advice is, don't do backups using that feature alone!
Even if you want to use the backup feature from a hosting service provider, first check with that party where the backup location is. Whether the backup data will also be placed in the same data center or not.
Because if the backup data is also placed in the same data center, the fallout will be the same. For example, if a data center building catches fire, the backup data cannot be restored, because it is in the same place.
We can learn from the incident at the Cyber Building yesterday. There are hosting companies whose backup servers are also in the same building, just on different floors.
However, it turned out that after the incident, the backup server room could not be accessed and was dead. Ultimately it takes time and this makes the restoration process longer. Ultimately what has an impact is the user.
So my advice, do a backup elsewhere.
You can place backup data to cloud storage services such as Google Drive, Dropbox, or others that are free. Or if your data is large and you want to place it in more professional storage, you can rent a Simple Storage Service or Cloud Object Storage.
Later your website data can be integrated into the S3 service to be stored there. But also choose an S3 service with a different server location. For example, if you have a hosting service on an Indonesian server, backup data can be placed on a Singapore server.
The point is, don't do a Local Backup, or place the backup file on the same server.
3. Choose a Quality Hosting Company
Don't just choose a hosting company. Don't be tempted by cheap prices, but don't be tempted by expensive prices because of the service offerings. Maintaining data on the hosting server is not just a matter for the hosting provider.
However, choosing a quality hosting service will help you a little to get satisfactory troubleshooting services.
Before you rent, you should first ask the hosting provider. For example, do they also perform regular backups, where is the backup server located? Is it in one data center or different? What steps will be taken in case of force majeure, etc
Things like that need to be asked. And I'm sure rarely anyone asks questions like this. Because if you are tempted by a fast hosting service, fast CS, and good server specs, you won't think about crucial things like the ones above. Even though it is also very important to ask.
For example, cloud hosting services at Cloudways. They have a paid Backup service. It's also cheap at $0.033 per GB. So, our backup data will be placed in a different data center, more precisely, Cloudways will place the backup data in the Amazon S3 bucket service, which is a storage service from AWS. So it's very safe.
This is what cloud hosting companies, especially in Indonesia, need to do so that they can maintain data on the hosting server safely and not be confused when undesirable things happen.
Conclusion
Make sure that if you want to choose a hosting service, especially VPS, don't just choose. Make sure you choose a cloud hosting service that is trusted and professional in its field. If necessary, choose one that has international standards.
And maintaining data on the hosting server also requires our role as users. Even though we have paid a high price for their services, we as users also need to do regular backups.
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