Don’t let Data Loss become a headache!
It doesn’t matter the size of your business, suffering from a data loss and losing critical files essential to your business takes time and money to restore and recover.
The effects can range to website downtime, right through to the closure of a business!
The Hippo is here to Help!
All our shared hosting plans* include a FREE basic backup service. This allows you to roll back your website to the last 24 Hours, should the worst happen.
All our Business Pro and VPS Plans, have the option of a full server backup too. The cost of this depends on the size of the server. But from just £4.99 per month, it really isn’t a lot for peace of mind.
*excludes Value plans
All backup solutions are configured when ordering a hosting product.
30 Day - Retention
Backups are taken every day, and kept for 30 days. SO even if you spot an issue that happened a few weeks ago, you can still recover your website.
Encrypted & Offsite
Your data is fully encrypted before it is sent to our secure off site service for storage.
Fully Managed
Your backups are checked manually by the Hippo Helper team to ensure that they are being taken correctly. We will also help you restore your backup should the worst happen.
Monthly Report
You will receive a report every month, so you know that your backup has been successful. This includes a number of other website checks too.
Why are website Backups important?
Many individuals and business invest a lot into their website. This may be time, money, or both. A backup protects this investment. It is a bit like an insurance policy — you hope to never have to use it, but if you do need it, it is invaluable.
With the best will in the world, and the most secure servers, all digital media is vulnerable to viruses and malicious attacks.
Other advantages are:
Roll back in minutes not weeks.
Restore elements you have accidentally deleted.
Restore in minutes not weeks.
Hipposerve Hassle-Free Features
What Makes Hipposerve Different from Everyone Else?
Customer Support
This is at the heart of everything we do. Our aim is to cut through the all the technical jargon that surround web hosting to give you a truly hassle-free service.
Affordable Performance
80% of your visitors will leave if your page takes longer than 5 seconds to load. We provide all the tools necessary to make your website fly. This includes Ultra-Fast NVMe Storage, AMD EPYC & Intel Gold Processors LiteSpeed™ web servers and fast transactional MariaDB® databases on our shared hosting — all at a really great price.
Security & Reliability
Protect the reputation of your business or organization with our robust security suite. Sleep soundly knowing that your website is always online, with Malware & Virus protection and Always on DDoS Protection being monitored by the Hippo Helper team 24/7.
Free Hippo
Yes you read it correctly, we do offer a free hippo to all our hosting customers.
Ok, it's a toy, but very cute, and just a token of our appreciation to our customers.
Transfer your Website
to us for Free!
We understand that transferring a website isn't an easy process. This is why we offer a FREE website transfer service, to move your website, email, and other online services to Hipposerve. No website is the same, so we work with you to develop a web transfer plan and timescale.
In addition, we:
Liaise with your existing provider to give you a seemless transfer
Audit and optimise your existing website where possible
Transfer domains, emails and other associated services.
7. Hippo Backup Solutions
Hippo Backup Solutions are is an unmanaged backup service provided for free on our shared hosting conditions, using the Third Party Application, JetBackup®. It is provided as is and whilst we will provide with the relevant support to use this product Hipposerve Digital Services Limited accepts no liability, for data loss whilst using this service.
This service takes one backup nightly and retains one copy of the backup. Previous backups are overwritten.
This service is unmanaged and it is your responsibility to ensure the service is correctly set up and the backups run accordingly.
We refer you to the JetBackup® terms and conditions as listed on their website and for support using this product. https://www.jetbackup.com/jetbackup-for-cpanel/