Backup policy and php cgi ?

[minesota]

I may have missed the notes on back-up ... Are there guaranted back-ups done by Hawkhost of my site ?

Any sample url of php info for shared server? Does php run as cgi and custom php.ini files addable ?

Is there any serious performance difference between basic and standard plans?

Does hawkhost plan to have ffmpeg hosting and Zeus servers in near future?

[Tony]

I may have missed the notes on back-up ... Are there guaranted back-ups done by Hawkhost of my site ?

We do backups everyday of 14% of the total accounts on the server. So over the course of a week each account is backed up. The reason for this is backups are an intensive operation. We're looking into other options for doing backups that can provide us with as low as hourly backups without extreme strain on the servers.

Any sample url of php info for shared server? Does php run as cgi and custom php.ini files addable ?

http://skyline.hawkhost.com/phpinfo.php

We run PHP as a CGI using suPHP so php.ini files need to be used to override php variables.

Is there any serious performance difference between basic and standard plans?

There isn't a performance difference all shared account types are put on the same kind of servers. The only difference is allocated space, bandwidth and we're more lenient on CPU and memory due to the fact the account costs more.

Does hawkhost plan to have ffmpeg hosting and Zeus servers in near future?

At this point in time Zeus is not supported by cPanel which we run and ffmpeg requires us to custom compile it and we don't think enough users use it to make sense to maintain it ourselves. If it was ever to be included in cPanel by default we would support it.