Tag: Fasthosts

As a Fasthosts technology parter, I was lucky enough to tour the Fasthosts data centre last December. During the tour, I learned that they were planning on improving their VPS product this year with 1Gbps bandwidth and new storage VPS plans.

With the addition of a snapshot feature in the Edition 2 VPS, you can now take snapshots (known as "images") of your Fasthosts cloud VPS to protect against data loss and recover from a disaster scenario.

While you can use the snapshot feature for backups, I strongly recommend you have other backups in place for two reasons:

If I had a bucket list, this would be on it.

Last December, I had the privilege of being invited to tour the new Fasthosts / IONOS data centre here in the Midlands (Worcester) and I jumped at the chance.