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Re:How and Why Swiftype Moved from EC2 to Real Hardware by Negitivefrags on Monday March 16, 2015 @04:38PM (#9214231)
We have 100 physical servers and hardware failures really are very rare. Very rare.

In fact over 4 years we have only had 3 hard drives fail and no other hardware failures.

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Re:How and Why Swiftype Moved from EC2 to Real Hardware by geoka9 on Monday March 16, 2015 @11:05PM (#9216047)
Do you have any plans on replacing your hard drives as they get old? Or you just wait for them to fail?
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