CloudSnapshots is a supporting service for people that have VPS servers on cloud provider DigitalOcean.

Since DigitalOcean does not provide a good, customizeable solution for taking backups – but rather a clunky, pricey effort – we developed Cloud Snapshots.

Essentially it connects to DigitalOcean over their API, and triggers snapshots to the droplets you have according to the schedules you set up.

Cloud Snapshots is customizeable: you can set each droplet you have with its own schedules according to your needs.

For example:

Snapshot an online store 3 times each day, keeping 12 last snapshots (4 days worth) + once a week, keeping 2 last snapshots.

Snapshot a WordPress based business site that seldom changes once a week, keeping last 3.

Currently we support DigitalOcean.

In the future more online providers will be added, according to their market size and/or our user needs.

Good decision. Over time you will save a lot of $$$ with us.

The process is simple:

1. Click Register. Fill in the form.
2. Go to your email and find the confirmation email we’ve sent you. Confirm your account by clicking the link in the email.
3. Log into the system by going here.
4. Press the yellow PayPal Subscribe button and set up a subscription. Don’t worry, you are only billed after the first 7 day trial is over.
5. On the menu, click edit account and paste your DigitalOcean API key.

That’s it. now you can see your droplet list on the droplets page and start creating schedules.

Yes!

We are processeing payments via PayPal, on their secure servers.

You can even cancel your subscription from your PayPal account directly.

CRON is a scheduling term, that allows you to set up elaborate schedules using just 5 sections.

• Minutes represents the minutes of a given hour, 0-59 respectively.
• Hours represents the hours of a given day, 0-23 respectively.
• Days represents the days of a given month, 1-31 respectively.
• Months represents the months of a given year, 1-12 respectively.
• Day of the Week represents the day of the week, Sunday through Saturday, numerically, as 0-6.

So for example:

• Daily at 1:20 AM => 20  1  *  *  *
• Weekly on Monday at 8AM => 0  8  *  *  1
• Monthly on the 1st at 6AM => 0  6  *  1  *

At the price of a modest plan we give you unlimited droplets, schedules and snapshots!

We believe that there is no sugnificant difference between a user with 20 droplets and 21, or 50 and 51. We don’t think we should take 70 USD per month just because you are more successful. 

Instead we believe in doing good, taking in small profit and giving good service.