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I've gotten the same recommendation from them. I complained because they pulled the network connection on the drive connected to the database and completely tor

I've gotten the same recommendation from them. I complained because they pulled the network connection on the drive connected to the database and completely torched the drive. They were like: well maybe you should consider running multiple database machines with replication so you can survive the next time we screw things up.

aianus 10y ago
This is true for all VPS hosting. They're cheap because they're commodity hardware that sometimes fails.
- funkyy 10y ago
  Full VPS backup should be standard feature of all premium providers...
  - joshmn 10y ago
    You'd think, but then they lose that easy upsell.
    - funkyy 10y ago
      And get tons of support requests and risk their brand name.
- gaius 10y ago
  This sounds to me more like a procedural than a hardware failure.