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How to Mount S3-Compatible Storage on Your Server and Access it in Your Filesystem
Managing files directly from cloud storage services—like Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage (GCS), and Backblaze B2—can simplify your workflows…
Restore a Linux File Backup
June 10, 2020
This tutorial explains how you can restore a linux file backup of, for example the /var/www directory on your server. Step 1 Assuming you…
AWS RDS MySQL Backup to S3
June 10, 2020
You can back up your MySQL Amazon RDS databases using SimpleBackups similar to how you back up MySQL databases and have it uploaded…
DigitalOcean Supported Regions
June 10, 2020
Last Update: May 29, 2023 At the moment, DigitalOcean has 13 data centers across the globe: New York City , The US: NYC1, NYC2, NYC3 San…
The Ultimate MySQL Database Backup Script
January 17, 2024
This article and video are part of “The Ultimate Backup Script” serie we are creating to provide you with MySQL database backup scripts…
Create DigitalOcean Droplets Daily Backups
June 6, 2020
Setting up a website and database daily backup using SimpleBackups using DigitalOcean Droplets . In this step by step tutorial, I am going…
Create a DigitalOcean server backup in style.
October 21, 2019
One of the awesome features of SimpleBackups is ‘Rapid Server Setup’ — which allows you to magically connect SimpleBackups to newly…
Add SSH key after creating a DigitalOcean droplet
October 6, 2019
If you got locked out and cannot access your DigitalOcean server but still have access to your DigitalOcean account, then here is a…
Pros/Cons of Storing Customers' Files in S3 Buckets for your SaaS
April 11, 2019
If you are building an application that needs to store customers' data in the cloud, you have a few options to think about. In this post I…
Don’t put all your eggs (servers/backups) in one basket (cloud)
January 13, 2019
Just like you diversify income sources, diversify your cloud infrastructure providers! Intro We are always taught that we “ should not put…