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cPanel control panel

Monday, October 12th, 2009
cPanelInterface

The cPanel user interface

The cPanel control panel is available on all linux shared and reseller hosting accounts – providing customers with an easy interface to manage any aspect of their website(s).

For website owners
Using cPanel makes managing your website easy. From the cPanel interface you can upload and manage your web pages, create e-mail accounts with ease, and even install blogging software, shopping carts and bulletin board software with a single click.

cPanel makes admin tasks a breeze, you can back up your data using the backup wizard, protect your sites content and bandwidth usage from abuse and even view error logs to determine problems with your website.

Click here for a demo of the website owner interface. 

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Continous data protection

Monday, October 5th, 2009
An overview of how continous data protection works

An overview of how continous data protection works

Freewind Hosting offers all shared and reseller hosting customers with R1Soft’s continuous data protection software solution providing an added layer of security to all customers’ data.

R1Soft’s continuous data protection is an application that performs high performance disk-based data protection for servers running either Windows or Linux operating systems.

R1Soft’s continuous data protection suite comprises of CDP servers and CDP agents, with the agents synchronising snapshots (differential backups) with the CDP servers. The CDP server protects disk volume data from the connected agent machines and stores them at disk level using highly efficient block-level changes.

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