WiredTree Adds R1Soft CDP to Dedicated Servers

Managed dedicated server hosting provider WiredTree, Inc. announced the launch of R1Soft CDP from Idera, Inc.on all dedicated server hosting plans.

It now offers customers with a web hosting backup solution at low price. In addition to investing in the infrastructure required to ensure fast and complete backups, WiredTree is also leveraging efficiency to cut the cost of R1Soft backups by 50%, making backups available at a competitive price.

"WiredTree has a great deal of experience with R1Soft," says Zac Cogswell, president of WiredTree. "We previously offered R1Soft backups by special request on our dedicated server hosting plans and on hybrid web hosting services. With the launch of R1Soft CDP version 4, we now feel that the product meets the high standards our managed dedicated server customers demand. In addition to R1Soft’s impressive features, we have also invested more than $100,000 in an infrastructure that is optimized for backups."

R1Soft CDP is a software solution that takes snapshots of an entire dedicated server as frequently as every 15 minutes. It only transfers the data that has changed on a server, keeping backup windows small and reducing the risk of lost data. However, the promise of CDP can only be met if a hosting provider invests in a suitable hardware setup. Before launching R1Soft services for managed dedicated server customers, WiredTree built new storage SANs, using custom hardware with a file system designed for performance and reliability. These storage nodes are accelerated with SSDs, providing read/write processes that are faster than HDD configurations.

"If we were to start offering R1Soft services without the right storage, performance and reliability would suffer across the board," says Cogswell. "It is important to us that customers can keep their data safe using R1Soft, without affecting website performance or significantly increasing costs. We have been able to implement R1Soft in such a way that customers using dedicated server hosting plans will reap all of the benefits, without any negative effects. Performance will continue to meet our high standards, bandwidth used for backups is not taken from customer allocations, and – best of all – we can do all of this at half the price we were charging for R1Soft backups."

As a result of the investment involved in such a large implementation of R1Soft CDP, WiredTree is able to provide enterprise-grade backups at a discounted price. In addition, using R1Soft CDP does not add hidden costs in terms of bandwidth usage. For faster performance, all backups are carried out on WiredTree’s private internal network, meaning that this data is not counted in a customer’s bandwidth allocation. WiredTree has also considered the impact of R1Soft backups on workload and ease of use. R1Soft CDP is an automated solution that is managed by WiredTree along with each customer’s managed dedicated server hosting service. Customers can use their Grove client portal to monitor R1Soft and edit specific settings as necessary. But once the service is launched, customers can trust R1Soft and WiredTree to protect all their data with no manual input.

"A managed dedicated server promises incredible performance without the need to manage your own hardware," says Cogswell. "We have decided to add R1Soft to dedicated server hosting because we believe, particularly with the new version of R1Soft, we can keep data safe without adding expense or workload. We encourage every webmaster who takes data protection seriously to make use of R1Soft and our half-price solution that is available to new and existing customers alike."