I have a concept that i would love to bounce off you guys: I am working with a dedicated self-managed hosting company to figure out a backup feature that would help them do the following: 1. Add value to their clients and differentiate their service. 2. Upsell their install base... i.e. profit off the new feature. 3. Increase loyalty and customer "stickiness." i.e. increase switching costs for their customers. So - here is what we can do - which do you think we should offer first?? 1. Continuous data protection --- most backup services are batch backups, i.e. they do batch "snapshot" backups once weekly, daily, or whatever. This would back up hard disk files from your dedicated server continously as they are saved... reducing significantly the data loss and increasing the accuracy of your restore point. 2. Offsite continuous data protection. Your dedicated server in South Carolina (for example) is backed up continuously to another facility in Nebraska. 3. Distributed Workstation backup to server - your home computer(s) or the computers in your office are backed up continuously to a file server at the managed hosting facility. Each workstation would have a client software package that would automatically backup those PCs. This could be done for about $5/client per month plus the hosted storage cost. 4. Cheap email archiving offering for exchange servers. Which of these would be most important to you? Which would be worthless? We are trying to decide which one to start with. Their client base from what I can glean is fairly similar to the DP audience. A lot of small shops and independent developers. Shell access types.