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Re:Apollo Global is buying Rackspace for $4.3B by aianus on Friday August 26, 2016 @12:34PM (#12367376)
This is true for all VPS hosting. They're cheap because they're commodity hardware that sometimes fails.
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Re:Apollo Global is buying Rackspace for $4.3B by funkyy on Friday August 26, 2016 @04:03PM (#12368927)
Full VPS backup should be standard feature of all premium providers...
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Re:Apollo Global is buying Rackspace for $4.3B by joshmn on Saturday August 27, 2016 @03:46PM (#12373860)
You'd think, but then they lose that easy upsell.
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Re:Apollo Global is buying Rackspace for $4.3B by funkyy on Monday August 29, 2016 @10:53AM (#12382208)
And get tons of support requests and risk their brand name.
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Re:Apollo Global is buying Rackspace for $4.3B by gaius on Saturday August 27, 2016 @07:48AM (#12371944)
This sounds to me more like a procedural than a hardware failure.
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