[Ologn]

I would say be cognizant that a major cloud provider might always just contact you out of the blue and say they after a few years of usage they blew away your VPS, and have no recovery for it, and you should rebuild it from scratch off your last backup.

I already was using more than one service but I cancelled Rackspace when this happened, although was not making enough yet to be fully and automatically redundant. It was a pain to suddenly have to drop everything and rebuild the service, as it broke the entire service I was offering. Actually I rebuilt everything on my existing service at Linode (now Akamai), and then got a VPS at Ramnode as my backup. So it was a lot of work suddenly thrown at me that I didn't need. Luckily, while my backup practices are not completely ideal, I do follow the 3-2-1 backup rule enough that it wasn't catastrophic.

Here's the message I got from Rackspace in 2019:

This message is a follow-up to our previous notifications regarding cloud server, "c0defeed". Your cloud server could not be recovered due to the failure of its host.

Please reference this ID if you need to contact support: "CSHD-5a271828"

You have the option to rebuild your server from your most recent server image or from a stock image. Once you have verified that your rebuilt server is online, you must (1) Copy your data from your most recent backup or attach your data device if you use Cloud Block Storage and (2) Adjust your DNS to reflect the new server’s IP address for any affected domains. When you have verified that your rebuilt server is online, with your data intact, you will need to delete the impacted server from your account to prevent any further billing associated with the impacted device.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.