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The main reason why we migrated our servers from Hetzner to OVH is Hetzner's hard drive policy. Basically, if one of your drives fails, they will swap it for… a
by jwr 10y ago
The main reason why we migrated our servers from Hetzner to OVH is Hetzner's hard drive policy. Basically, if one of your drives fails, they will swap it for… another failing drive. You will keep getting various refurbished or re-tested drives. Basically, if it passes their test, it is considered a good drive, even if SMART shows a history of errors.
Obviously, these drives do not last very long, so you end up with hardware that fails more and more often as time passes. Makes you look bad in front of customers.
I guess it's a matter of pricing — Hetzner is relatively cheap, and you get what you pay for. But you should know what you're getting.
- easychris 10y agoYou can pay around €50 to get a new drive - and you can skip the proof that the drive failed or is failing. For us we always choose this option as soon as we see SMART problems arising. Even with occasional drive failures the overall costs are so much lower than cloud hosting or self-owned hardware.