I hear this bad argument often (“replacing hard drives”) and I don’t understand why. It’s as if we’re mentally stuck in a bad hacking movie from 1999.

If you’re doing colocation to save money, you’ve also figured out that going to the datacenter sucks and it’s a terrible place to do work.

You’re not building your own servers from scratch, you’re generally purchasing them from a vendor who offers a warranty and optional on-site service.

Or you’re leasing them from a hosting company who will take care of those pesky RAID alarms for you.

You (or your hosting providers) have likely outfitted your server with remote out-of-band access to allow you to get into BIOS or the RAID controller without physically being in front of the server.

And finally, you have remote access to power cycle the server (or a batphone at your hosting provider to do it on your behalf).

I want to say that these datacenter-visit-prevention techniques have been near standard practice for a decade-and-a-half.

Or is it just me and my circle that do this?