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Originally Posted by Redrob
Ouch.....crashed server hard drives really suck.
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Mine don't. I learned a long time ago, if its got tits or electronics your going to have problems with it. My servers have 2 drives, one is the main drive, one is a mirror drive. One goes tits up, there is one that still has the mirror and a backup. There is also a weekly backup here. I have seen so many webmasters and sponsor cry over a drive crash. There is no excuse for not having at least two drives in a machine. To me a sponsor that say's " we had a drive crash but we had a mirror drive" is a responcable sponsor. Ones that say "we had a drive crash we are rebuilding what we can" is a bad sponsor. This is our business a backup of what we have is a must... I know I am anal about backups.
I charge flat rate of $60 an hour to people who are not my friends. Most computer stores around here charge $100 an hour or more. I don't do a lot of computer work anymore, because I flat out hate computers. Then again I owned a computer training biz and I spent more time on the phone answering questions than I did getting paid, once you start working on computers and word gets out. You end up being to busy to do webmaster work.