Nope, I've rented a dedicated server through OVH and I never had to touch a single cable or change a single disk. I also dealt with owned servers and I had to

Nope, I've rented a dedicated server through OVH and I never had to touch a single cable or change a single disk. I also dealt with owned servers and I had to deal with power outages and gas based generators, internet outages caused by too high trucks taking out a data line, and UPS beeping because their battery life was nearing zero. So there's a non trivial difference there.