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| * It takes a long time to boot past the firmware; generally 3-4 minutes to warm boot and 6-8 cold. ^^ why is that? is it just the firmware being buggy, or i

• zeta0134 4y ago
  Server hardware operates remote and headless, so it performs much more exhaustive memory checks and will try to proactively report failures. Good datacenters will catch these and open a ticket to replace failing hardware. Beyond that, lots of servers will then enumerate all of the network interfaces and try to initiate a net boot, and only then fall back to the hard drive. Some tweaking in the bios can usually disable these features and gain a bunch of time, but again in a headless remote context this default behavior is incredibly useful for recovery purposes. We like to avoid actually running out with a physical crash cart if we can help it :)