Some Ideas on Hosting Provider Information

[marcarmengou]

Some ideas about the information that could be displayed about the hosts in the future WordPress hosting provider directory:

• Security: compliance, such as ISO 27001, etc.
• Datacenter: yes or no.
  • Infrastructure provider: provider.
• SSH Access: yes or no.
  • Account or site: type.
• Backups: quantity in days.
  • Type of restoration?
• Customer service: 24/7?
• Disk space
• Transfer limit?
• Sites limit?
• Money-back?
• Staging?
• Price
  • Price Renewal?
  • Price 1/2/3 years?

[at-benni]

The backup duration isn't always a straightforward single number of days. Consider a scenario where you have daily backups for the past 7 days, followed by 4 weekly backups, and then 4 monthly backups. You'd have a backup that dates back 5 months. How do you quantify this backup schedule with just an integer?

[marcarmengou]

"Standardizing" information can be one of the frictions in some specific aspects such as this.

There are vendors that use a number of days, while others use "daily" or "weekly" copies. Some do not say what total number of copies they store, nor for how long, while others do.

Perhaps in this case it would be more convenient:

Backups

• Frequency: daily or weekly?
• Quantity? x copies
• How Long? x days

Where to draw the line on granularity of information? Do you have any better ideas about this?

[at-benni]

I think something like this would fit:

{
  "backups": [
    {"daily": 7},
    {"weekly": 4},
    {"monthly": 4}
  ]
}

another example

{
  "backups": [
    {"daily": 14}
  ]
}