Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS?
by toast0 on Monday February 06, 2023 @09:12AM
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Who faces the immediate consequences of failed hardware --- that's who needs to monitor it.
Disk monitoring isn't too hard though. For hard drives, run smartctl once an hour, alert when reallocated or pending sectors grows quickly or hits 100. For SSDs, cross your fingers; in my experience with a few thousand, they tend to work great until they disappear from the bus, never to be seen again. Have a data recovery plan that doesn't involve storage of the data onto the same model devices with very similar power on hours --- power on hour correlated firmware errors are real.
Disk monitoring isn't too hard though. For hard drives, run smartctl once an hour, alert when reallocated or pending sectors grows quickly or hits 100. For SSDs, cross your fingers; in my experience with a few thousand, they tend to work great until they disappear from the bus, never to be seen again. Have a data recovery plan that doesn't involve storage of the data onto the same model devices with very similar power on hours --- power on hour correlated firmware errors are real.