Let's talk about failover or disaster recovery. What would you suggest to follow as possible solutions for protecting an EV1's dedicated server (with Plesk 7.5.2 installed) just for avoiding such a disaster:

1. Buying a Storage server (200 GB at 59,00$/mo) connected via VPN to the server wich needs protection? In other words: using a pure backup service?
2. Buying a second dedicated server (99,00$/mo) sincronized via PMM to the first?

In the first case there wouldn't be any Internet connectivity, i.e. neither HTTP service nor any other services. Of course it is cheap and 200 GB are much more than the generally available 60 GB...

In the second case we have a new fully functional server that could be "cloned" - as a sort of mirror of the first - thanks to the Plesk Migration Manager. BUT it costs twice the first solution an perhaps it's not worth it paying for bandwidth which you are not going to use.

Anyway... what would you suggest me to do?

Thanks, Enrico

Build yourself a cheap little Linux box that you hook up to your DSL or whatever at your home/office. While you're at it install the free single domain version of Plesk on it. Use one of the scripts you'll find around here somewhere (look for Nighthawk and backup) to have your new home/office box connect to your production servers to create incremental backups each night or at least a few times per week.

Best of all worlds there. You have backups to recover from should anything bad happen. And the backups are off of your production server. The cost is almost non-existent if you're like me and have computer parts and pieces laying around from old computers over the years. Plus you now have test/development Plesk Server that you can use to see if upgrading/installing something new will break anything.

Great solution, and really great answer! I didn't expect that the problem could be solved in such an easy way. Thank you Squire... Just trying your suggestion right now, and then I'll post a new message for letting everyone know whether or not everything worked fine.