One of the drives in our server has failed. =( Even though it should be a 10 minute job OVH needs a 2 hour window to replace it.
I’ve requested they schedule it for Tuesday from 8am - 10AM PST. Hopefully it’ll be reasonably quick, but expect cloudflare tunnel errors while they perform the work.
What drives are they? SSD, mechanical, size, redundancy?
2x Raid 1 Samsung MZVL2512HCJQ-00B07. I’m sure OVH bought a million of them for pennies.
I have nicer (non-OVH) hardware for us coming soon once I can do the setup + plan out the migration.
Where would you run it?
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Interesting. So you give them a box and they put it into their rack?
Basically. It wouldn’t be with them directly, but with a smaller provider I know that has several racks. They’ll rent me a space in one of their racks, based on our power and network requirements.
Most colocation providers don’t want to deal with sharing multiple customers in a rack, they also don’t generally provide network access.
Is this cheaper than a cloud VM? I suppose that’s why you’re going this route.