Website Backup Tool HTTP Insure Enters Alpha Testing Phase

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— Website backup software developer HTTP Insure (www.httpinsure.com) announced on Tuesday that it has opened alpha testing for the product it intends to “revolutionize website backups.”

HTTP Insure is designed to be an external backup for websites that works with any web hosting company, using an FTP connection to perform an rsync style backup.

The company says complexity and cost have been a continuous problem for users seeking backup solutions for their websites. HTTP Insure is intended to provide a low-cost and easy to use product that can fill that gap in the website backup space.

According to the company’s president, David Guerra, the new product was born out of regular demands the people now working on the project were seeing dealing with hosting customers in the past.

“Our management team has a strong background in day to day hosting and web development and we were getting asked around 10-15 times a day to recommend a product that could do an external backup easily. There wasn’t one and now there is,” says Guerra, quoted in the press release. “We’ve been working alongside some top names in the industry to try and pull together a one size fits all product and I believe we are there or very close.”

The company says ensuring a website remains online is becoming a more regular part of the webmaster role, even on the smaller scale – with websites of every kind falling victim to hacks, server failures or even webmaster error – creating a market for an entry-level disaster recovery type of solution.

These are circumstances, according to the press release, that directly threaten hosting companies. There is no information, either on the website or in the press release, on how hosting providers might be able to offer the service to customers, or to potentially profit from doing so, but that information is most likely forthcoming, given that the product is just starting alpha testing.

The company is looking for 50 alpha testers, who will be able to use the service free of charge during the test period. They can sign up at the company’s website.