Originally Posted by
funkywizard
I used to host a lot of servers at FDC, and because our usage was cpu and ram intensive, we had quite a bit of churn to get new servers and cancel old ones as new technology came out, better prices, etc. We always budgeted the first month of hosting to work out any issues with the server and figure out if we should keep it or not and if it would be reliable. Maybe the drive would fail, maybe the server would just crash a lot more often than our other servers. Maybe everything would be perfectly fine. Either way, we just generally expected that any new server we set up, we'd have to give it kind of a testing period to see if it would be ok or not. It's easier to get a new server with FDC and migrate your data and cancel the old server than it is to get them to fix the existing server. As you said, you're getting a great price, and your other servers are working fine, so it won't make sense to jump ship and cancel all your servers. On the other hand, if you want to take best advantage of FDC's low prices, you need to be prepared to deal with these kinds of problems, which often means cancelling a misbehaving server after you get a new one and migrate your data, because it's simply too difficult and time consuming to get them to repair it.