[keithnoizu]

I'm paying like 2,300 a month and even something basic like failover isnt working. I'm not happy.

[shiftpgdn]

At $2300/month you could redundantly colo or lease VERY powerful servers in 3-4 data centers around the country.

[dialtone]

Except when you have to factor in all the plane flights to replace broken HDD. And the risk of not making it in time for when it breaks.

[shiftpgdn]

Most colo facilities let you buy hands on time through their techs or include a small amount per month for things like hard drive/ram swaps.

[rdl]

Yeah, I don't think I'd go with less than RAID-6 (or full system redundancy plus 1 drive redundancy in each). Rebuilds just take too long, even with an in-chassis spare on RAID5.

Unfortunately Areca is really the only controller I've found which is well supported and does RAID6 fast.

[bgentry]

would those be managed at that price? because it's a hell of a lot more expensive when you factor in the cost of devops to make sure it stays working and fails over properly.

[keithnoizu]

Poor inherited architecture, working to scale out greatnonprofits.org horizontally but it will be a while before we get there.

  I have nothing against colo but I don't really have time to run around the country checking on servers.

[nadahalli]

I feel for you :-(

Amazon is not cheap, and they have failed way too many times in recent memory.

But the api, oh the api - it's crack, and I can't live without it.

[RegEx]

I know what you mean. I have a lot of issues with AWS, but the AWS console is exactly what my manager needs so he can do things himself. Simple things such as AWS load balancing fails when we get any decent amount of traffic.