Web Hosting : RAID setup necessary on typical site? | server recommendations

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This web hosting thread started by treoguy on 04 December 2008

I’ve taken the scalable approach when it comes to servers for my various sites. With shared servers, I never really worried about backup or even hard drives going down. Same goes for VPS. For some reason, when I moved to dedicated servers, I outfitted them with 74GB SATA drives in a RAID setup. My understanding is that it protects me if one drive happens to fail. I’ve been lucky and haven’t had that problem.

I’m at the point now where I’m looking to upgrade from a VPS paying around $75 per month to a dedicated server. I can stand to be down a day if a hard drive goes, if it means $75 a month in savings. My biggest concern would be suggestions on the best way to protect myself in the event of a catastrophe.

Contacted SoftLayer about possibly adding a second server for me and honoring the price I’m paying on my old server.

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