Hosting & infrastructure

How do backups work, and how fast can I restore?

Daily off-site for hosting (14-day retention), hourly for production tiers. Restore is 30 minutes for under 100 GB; emergency restores skip the queue.

Default schedule

Service tierFrequencyRetentionStorage
Managed Hosting / VPSDaily14 daysOff-site, EU
Managed Cloud (production)Hourly7d hourly + 30d dailyOff-site, EU
Game ServersDaily auto + on-demand7 daysOff-site, EU
VitalSpark / SparkTranscriptHourly30 daysOff-site, EU
Docker Containers (basic)None defaultCustomer-managed

For self-managed services (basic Docker, DNS), backup is your responsibility. We can add managed backups as a paid add-on — open a ticket.

Requesting a restore

Open a ticket marked "Restore request" with:

  • Service ID.
  • Target restore point (date, time, UTC).
  • Restore over current state, or to a side-by-side instance for inspection.

Restore times:

  • Up to 100 GB — 30 minutes from ticket creation.
  • 100 GB – 1 TB — within 2 hours.
  • Over 1 TB — call ahead, restoration is staged.

Emergency restores

If production is down and a restore is the fix, mark the ticket Sev-1 and ping us on Discord. Emergency restores skip the queue and start within 15 minutes regardless of plan tier.

Test restores

Exercise a test restore once a quarter so you know procedure and timing. No charge — open a ticket and pick a quiet window.

What is not backed up

  • Files you excluded (node_modules, cache directories).
  • Data in services you self-manage on top of our infrastructure.
  • Anything on ephemeral / scratch disks.