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Originally Posted by AdultKing
I agree with most of what you have written except this.
I have several dozen servers with OVH. The moment there is any kind of hardware failure or the machine becomes unreachable then an intervention is automatically started and the problem is fixed in an average of half an hour.
Not all unmanaged server providers do this but OVH do completely monitor everything about your server and immediately respond to fix the issue.
Too many SMART errors on a RAID disk - it's replaced. CPU running too warm - cooling system is replaced, machine stops responding to pings - intervention brings it up again and so on.
I manage all of my own servers either directly or, as I am lucky enough to own a mainstream IT company, one of my staff will work on them.
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You are exactly right. When it comes to Hardware Issues these are definitely the responsibility of the Unmanaged Host and they absolutely should be monitoring for everything you listed. But that is only a small part of what can go wrong on a server.
Just as a short test, I logged into our own Alert System to see what my guys are working on right this very second. Here is the unedited list (of course, I only pulled out the reason for the alert and no customer or server information).......
- Outbound Traffic is Low
- Disk is almost full (90%)
- Got 401 Unauthorized from
http://XXXXXXXXX
- Outbound Traffic is High
- MySQL Slave is more than 30 seconds behind Master
Of course, none of these issues are Hardware Related so none of them would be alerted to by an Unmanaged Host.
Your point is well made, however, in that you are one of the lucky ones who has the talent and some extra staff to help out. All of that means that it probably makes very good sense for you to use an Unmanaged Host. I probably would if I were you, too. At this point I am talking to more of the one server, one employee type company and that is not you, for sure
Hope this helps!
--T