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Originally Posted by foorhoom
Dedicated is better supposedly, better support supposedly, but if they do down then you're out of business.
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it sounds like you need co-lo, or mirrored service. Then you would still be 'up' if one was down (i.e. redundancy). For example, I have some of my major boxes (my own personal sites stuff) hosted, or mirrored at two places. Two different data centers in different states. So if there was a network issue at one, then I would still have a second location up.
Same as I do for my web hosting company's name servers. I have them actually running at multiple locations so that it keeps my clients unaffected if there was an issue on one network. This way, I do not have to worry about one being down. I also do RAID 1 on my boxes as well as a side note in case of hardware issues to minimize downtime if a drive failed. It's never happened, but I also never want it to.
My point being, if you are mission critical, invest in the redundancy options. With all the hosting companies out there, I would be interested to know who you have hosted with in the past, and what type of set up you have. Sounds like bad experiences all around.