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submitted 14 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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 much reasonably quick, but expect some cloudflare tunnel errors while they perform the work.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Is this cheaper than a cloud VM? I suppose that's why you're going this route.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 hours ago

It's complicated. Normally for us no it wouldn't make sense. You would plan to amortize the hardware cost over something like 3 years, but you need to have the $ to buy the hardware and also know what hardware you'll need for future growth. The unpredictability is why cloud usually wins, but cloud is expensive in exchange for flexibility.

In our case here I'm donating the hardware and it's ridiculously overpowered for what we need, so hosting it somewhere makes sense.