Younger guy with ambitions but little experience, I think my point was that used servers with Hetzner are still used so if someone has been running disk heavy jobs you might want to request new disks or multiple ones and not just pick the cheapest options at the auction.
(Interesting that an anectode like above got downvoted)
> (Interesting that an anectode like above got downvoted)
experts almost unilaterally judge newbies harshly, as if the newbies should already know all of the mistakes to avoid. things like this are how you learn what mistakes to avoid.
"hindsight is 20/20" means nothing to a lot of people, unfortunately.
It's a server! What in the world is your friend doing running a single disk???
Ate a bare minimum they should have been running a mirror.