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02-26-2014, 10:54 AM #1Newbie
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Best place to buy dedicated server with safe data
I'm customer for iWeb for few years.
Everything is ok except one thing: after 1 each year HDD on my server died.
they replaced my old HDD with new one (without fee) . however, i have to backup and restore data to new HDD. that take a long time for me.
with error HDD , sometimes ,it takes few days to backup and restore 1 G data that's too bad.
For now, i want to buy a dedicated server with persistence HDD , or quick backup / restore services. because i want to store 200G photo ... if my HDD dead, i have no time to restore all of this data
anyone can recommend for the best server company ?
ps: sorry, english is not my native language.Last edited by rassen; 02-26-2014 at 10:59 AM.
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02-26-2014, 10:58 AM #2Web Hosting Master
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No server company can guarantee that a hard drive won't die. All hardware fails eventually. You need to setup RAID so that you are protected from a hard drive failure.
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02-26-2014, 11:00 AM #3Newbie
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02-26-2014, 11:04 AM #4Newbie
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how about cloud server?
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02-26-2014, 11:05 AM #5Web Hosting Master
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02-26-2014, 11:09 AM #6Newbie
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02-26-2014, 11:10 AM #7Web Hosting Master
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02-26-2014, 11:11 AM #8Corporate Member
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02-26-2014, 11:14 AM #9Newbie
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many tks. so that's mean i should use VPS , cloud servers instead of dedicated server?
because i don't know much about raid or how to setup raid or what to do if one HDD die.
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02-26-2014, 11:39 AM #10Web Hosting Master
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because i don't know much about raid or how to setup raid or what to do if one HDD die.
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02-26-2014, 01:25 PM #11Newbie
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02-26-2014, 01:55 PM #12Newbie
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Hello.
In this case, you need to head for uptime.
Every company has these details, and usually indicates it all online. In other cases, it is possible to contact with sales
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02-26-2014, 02:17 PM #13
The chances 2 hard drives die at the same time is pretty rare. And for those who are worried about something like that there is Raid-10 in which you have 4 drives and up to 2 drives can die without dataloss. But I am wondering if your server at iweb is using desktop grade hard drives instead of server grade that are intended for 24/7 use.
I would certainly suggest getting Raid-1 as that will solve all your issues, and make sure the host sets up Raid alert notifications as raid is useless if you are not aware of the failed drive and it never ends up getting replaced.█ SolaDrive - Enterprise Managed Server Solutions
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02-26-2014, 02:41 PM #14Web Hosting Master
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OP Firehost seems like a good deal for you.
If you need redundancy then you need a Cloud instance or at least redundancy in the HD.Last edited by HRR--; 02-26-2014 at 02:44 PM.
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02-26-2014, 11:22 PM #15Newbie
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02-26-2014, 11:28 PM #16
Well there are benefits and downsides to each, to name a few:
Software Raid:
- Causes slight load on the main CPU
- No write cache to boost performance
- Cheaper than hardware raid (its free)
- Using software raid means one less piece of hardware to fail
Hardware Raid:
- Offers better performance than software raid as it has a dedicated CPU and cache memory for all io processes.
- You can enable write cache which considerably boosts performance in a typical HDD array.
- Costs money as its a physical piece of hardware
I tend to recommend to clients to go with software raid for Raid-1 and hardware raid card for Raid-10, its more economical.█ SolaDrive - Enterprise Managed Server Solutions
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02-27-2014, 04:32 AM #17Disabled
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Netherlands is the best place.
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02-27-2014, 10:45 AM #18Web Hosting Master
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02-27-2014, 11:01 AM #19Junior Guru
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02-27-2014, 11:41 AM #20Web Hosting Master
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IO performance shouldn't suffer, assuming you have a proper RAID controller. Rather than 1 HDD writing a certain file, you have a similar HDD writing the same file at the same time. Both individual HDDs don't need to do anything extra (unless you are rebuilding the RAID array). If you have a bad RAID controller, it will bottleneck the IO, but that shouldn't happen.
Suppose there is a good chance the other disk fails, you still have a larger chance of being able to save the data compared to having a single HDD which is lost when it fails. But I doubt HDDs fail so rapidly after each other.
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02-27-2014, 11:49 AM #21Junior Guru
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In my experience, when a RAID is rebuilding, performance suffers quite badly. A checksum still needs to be performed across drives so there should be some impact.
HDDs are at greatest risk of failure during the rebuild. As disks get larger and larger, it's calculated that certain RAID configurations won't ever reliably rebuild without failure of another drive.
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