Many competing services do not perform daily backups of your web data unless you pay extra for the service. Even if they do offer daily backups, they don't give you a way to restore data and manage backups yourself. You must call them and wait for them to perform the restore. But what if you only wanted one file restored from yesterday’s backup? You have to wait and hope they get it right.

LFC takes the industry standard daily web data backup to another level by providing full Backup Administration right through your account control panel. Through the control panel, you can view your backups for every day over the past two weeks and download or restore backups on the fly.

Moreover, unlike competing services who needlessly backup a complete copy of all of your data every day, LFC’s proprietary technology requires one full backup, while simply recording only the changes that you make on a daily basis. This requires dramatically less storage space and computing power, is much more efficient (meaning faster restores) and scalable, and, most importantly, allows us to provide you with self-service access to your own historical daily backups for every day over the last 14 days!

In other words, if you notice a problem with your website, database, etc. that may have occurred over a week ago, you can instantly restore to a version that was backed up prior to that time.

You can even browse through a backup on any day using a simple graphical interface and download or restore specific files only!

This is extremely valuable as it puts you in control. With competing services, if you accidentally overwrite or delete a file, you are typically required to contact technical support and wait several days to get your file back. With LFC Hosting, there is no waiting - simply find the file you wish to restore, click a button and you're back in business in seconds!

Our LFC-exclusive self-service MySQL 5 and MS SQL Server 2008 database backup feature functions in the same way. We take a daily snapshot of your database so that you can restore it to any day over the last 14 days - simply find the version you wish to restore or download, click a button and you're back in business!

We are also the only web hosting service to offer a "Backup Now" feature (especially useful for database developers) to alleviate the risk associated with database and scripting updates. For example, assume that you have a major update that does not go as planned, and you need to get back up and running. Simply press the "Backup Now" button in your LFC Control Panel to pro-actively take a snapshot prior to the update. You can then easily restore to the "Last Known Good" version and comfortably correct the update without downtime

Finally, with some competing services, backups occupy the disk space included with your account. At LFC, increased reliability comes standard!

This advantage is unique to LFC Hosting as our team of dedicated professionals developed it with you in mind.

See a demo of LFC's "OOOPS! Backup - Self Administered".