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Currently, I rent a managed server from Hetzner for my SaaS business. However, it has some limitations and I'm thinking about switching to a root server. Thing
by WA 13y ago
Currently, I rent a managed server from Hetzner for my SaaS business. However, it has some limitations and I'm thinking about switching to a root server. Thing is, I don't want to deal with security and updates and administration and that stuff.
Can anyone recommend a solution? Is there a good software that works as good as their managed version, e. g. keeps itself updated and has a more or less tight security package out of the box? Or do I need to hire a system administrator?
I do have some Linux/command line skills, but I don't want to put a lot of time in it.
- sgift 13y agoIf you want a root server hire an admin. Especially if you want a root server from Hetzner. We had two incidents where our machine either lost power because of a problem in the datacenter or was shut down outside of a predefined service window. Hetzners reaction to the resulting problems* was that they won't do anything because it is a root server. They didn't care that they were the source of the problem. We changed the hoster afterwards. * First time was only a hanging connection to the server, because the machine was still performing disk checks (they didn't tell us that, we had to request local access), second time the hdd crashed and we learned the hard way that they are unable to configure a software raid properly (but tell you that the root servers are preconfigured with raid), which resulted in a complete data loss. External backups saved us here.
- kbar13 13y agothree thing you need to always expect when dealing with a provider who hosts your stuff: 1) offsite backups 2) potential that things go sideways during maintenance 3) offsite backups Them external backups are always worth the cost!
- annnnd 13y agoI think you forgot another one: 4) offsite backups