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Originally Posted by The Duck
Just curious, does the host does have any responsibilities (I take it most will add to their TOS that they are not responsible) if all data and databases are lost due to a hardware failure on new hard drives on a fully managed dedicated server.
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I'm not sure there would be any recourse as such, but perhaps they should have impressed upon you that a single drive failing could lose your data. Basic software RAID1 is supported by most OSs and is a relatively cheap way to keep you going in the event of a drive dying. If your server has hotswap bays, you don't even need to shut down in order to replace the failed drive.
A couple of years ago I had a server with brand new enterprise drives handed over; within less than a week one of the drives failed...