UK Hosting Provider Fasthosts Announced New Online Backup Service

The UK hosting provider Fasthosts, announced the launch of a new online backup service designed to provide protection of business data. The company said that the service is priced at GBP 10/month+VAT. The service can be used to automatically back up 1TB of data, transferring it via SSL and storing it encrypted within a its UK data center.

Backups upload only incremental changes to files meaning that bandwidth usage is kept to a minimum.

Fastshosts said that their Online Backup service fulfills an important requirement for all businesses in protecting valuable business data and files from loss or corruption. The company also explains that storage capacity is selected according to requirements and can be increased dynamically from 10 Gigabytes to 1 Terabyte.

The user is not limited to specific hardware for utilizing the service and can up- or downscale at any time and therefore only pays for their required usage. All data backups are uploaded over SSL to provide a secure transmission, and the data is stored encrypted within the secure data center. Its Online Backup uses software to analyze files marked for backup so only incremental changes are uploaded. By sending only changes to files, the amount of data transfer is significantly reduced, meaning lower ADSL bandwidth usage costs and time is saved.