Posts made in September, 2011

A Review of Online Backup Services

Posted by yourtechguy on Sep 8, 2011 in Articles | 0 comments

You’re sit­ting at your desk work­ing, then the Win­dows update pops up to inform you that there are crit­i­cal updates, you click ok to pro­ceed with the updates. Now your com­puter needs to restart to fin­ish the update. It restarts again.

Your com­puter finally starts, only to go into some sort of recov­ery. After about 10 mins your com­puter boots up and you see your desktop. Now you try to resume what you were work­ing on before all this happened.

You try look­ing for some of your files on the hard-drive, but you are not find­ing them. Panic sets in. You sud­denly real­ize you may have lost every­thing that was stored on your hard-drive.

Well this sce­nario hap­pened to me but every­thing was not a total loss. I do have exter­nal hard-drives and just 2 months before I started an online backup sub­scrip­tion. Talk about relief. That’s to say I was still was not a lit­tle nervous.

I made the deci­sion to restore back to fac­tory new. The true test of your online ser­vice is when you have to restore your files. It is nice to have an easy backup pro­ce­dure, but you need to be able to restore your files even easier.

When the restore process was finally fin­ished, I installed Mozy and started to recov­ery my files. The process took a day or so because I had a lot to restore. When it was fin­ished I had every­thing back. What a life saver.

A few more rea­sons to have an online backup service:

• what if some­body broke in and stole your com­puter and exter­nal hard-drives
• what if your house burned
• what if there was a tornado

The Mozy sys­tem is com­pat­i­ble with Mac­in­tosh and Windows-based oper­at­ing sys­tems. There’s an app for the iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad and Android to be able to access  your data while on the go.

Some really nice fea­tures of Mozy backup is auto­matic you don’t have to remem­ber to backup you can use your com­puter while Mozy is back­ing up. If you have access to the Inter­net you have access to your data.

You can use Mozy for free with up to two gigs of stor­age, yes that’s right two gigs of stor­age.
Mozy is not expen­sive at $5.99 a month as price just right for 60 bucks near you can have peace of mind and know that your
call will be safe and backed up acces­si­ble from any­where on any device practically.

Click here to try Mozy’s free auto­matic back up soft­ware and your 2 gigs of free stor­age space.

Great Web Hosting from Host Gator: Coupon Codes

Posted by yourtechguy on Sep 1, 2011 in Articles | 0 comments

Here are some great coupon codes for Host Gator. I do rec­om­mend them and use them. This site is hosted by them.

To use any of the coupon codes below click this link and enter your coupon code when check­ing out. The prices in your shop­ping cart will not refect the dis­counts until you are ready to check out and enter in the code. Host Gator only allows one coupon code per purchase.

Web Host­ing Packages

• 25% off your Reg­u­lar Host­ing, VPS Host­ing, Reseller Host­ing
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• $9.94 off Reg­u­lar Host­ing, VPS Host­ing
  coupon code:      hostgatoryltg
• $24.94 off Reseller Host­ing
  coupon code:      hostgatorreselleryltg

Host Gator Tech­ni­cal Support

Host Gator pro­vides 24/7 tech­ni­cal and cus­tomer ser­vice.  They offer tele­phone ser­vice, live chat, and a ticket sys­tem. I have used the chat ser­vices sev­eral times and have been very pleased to the response I have gotten.

Here is a link to a side by side com­par­i­son com­par­i­son review of three dif­fer­ent host­ing com­pa­nies I did a while back.