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Re:Postmortem of the failure of one hosting storage unit on ... by robbyt on Monday January 27, 2020 @10:08AM (#22159938)
Not bad luck, bad design. Same for Gandi, and for the situation you just described.

Drive failures and HVAC failures due to bad power are not "black swawn" events. These are very common problems for DCs, and a good design takes these problems into account.

However, a "bad" design is cheap, and hopefully the savings is passed to the customer.

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Re:Postmortem of the failure of one hosting storage unit on ... by _nalply on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @05:23AM (#22168041)
Hopefully... My dedicated hosting was very cheap, I paid $20 a month.
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Re:Postmortem of the failure of one hosting storage unit on ... by halfeatenpie on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @04:58PM (#22174531)
It's Delimiter, wasn't it? They weren't a very good hosting organization to begin with, but you get what you pay for.
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Re:Postmortem of the failure of one hosting storage unit on ... by _nalply on Monday February 03, 2020 @04:47AM (#22222777)
Right. When I relocated to a home with FTTH, I switched to self-hosting.
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