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Mediademon have invested in a new backup system to cover all our hosting packages. All our servers include a hardware based RAID disk mirroring solution which will protect your data in the event of a disk failure. However, disk mirroring will not allow you to recover an accidentally deleted file and making regular backups yourself and restoring them when required can be time consuming. With our managed backup solution, your critical data is securely backed up every night, whilst restoration in the event of accidental data loss or hardware failure is quick and hassle free.

Data from your site is copied to large disk arrays on our backup servers in the early hours of the morning every day. Only files created or changed since the previous night's backup must be copied and because hard disk transfer rates are faster than those of magnetic tapes, the load placed on your machine by data backup is minimised and concentrated in the period when the load imposed by its other tasks will likely by least.

With the backup copy of your data synchronised, the entire disk image is copied to DLT tapes using our robotic tape library without placing any load on your machine. Once written, tapes are stored off site for maximum protection. The disk based copy means your most recent backup is instantly accessible enabling us to complete full and partial restores quickly, whilst the tape based backups allow versions of files from weeks ago to be obtained.

Should any of our servers suffer a hardware failure, the hardware will be instantly replaced and all data restored from the most recent backup free of charge. Specific files and data can also be recovered should they be deleted in error. Should a partial restore be required (A partial restore is defined as a request to recover one list of files from a single point in time) they are charged at £35 each.

Posted on 22 October 2006 (Archive on 29 October 2006)
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Mediademon are a UK company based in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, providing professional Website Design, Portal Design, Web Hosting, Intranets & Extranets, Internet Marketing, Multimedia Development, Content Management, .NET Web Applications, Data Printing, SQL Database Development and Systems Analysis Services.

Mediademon are pleased to be registered members of Microsoft's Partner Program & Microsoft's Hosting Program.

We entrusted the upkeep of our website to Mediademon from the outset since which time major changes have been successfuly introduced. Mediademon are knowledgeable, responsive and accurate. I am completely satisfied with them.

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LA Techniques Ltd.

Improved Spam Detection

Since we first set up our email anti-spam service we have found that our spam filters trap on average 99.9% of all your email spam. We are now confident that any mail with a Spam Score of 12.0 or higher is definitely spam and will be deleted automatically. All our hosting accounts receive this improved anti-spam service upgrade for free!

6 August 2007