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i host a few sites with moderate traffic on an ex10 server. I can't remember of any network issues. Current uptime:

12:13:14 up 183 days, 21:23, 2 users, load average: 0.51, 0.55, 0.49

The problem is unreliability of hardware. When one of the hard disks broke in the previous server, it was faster to setup a new server to transfer everything rather than waiting for the repair.

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I concur with the unreliability of hardware. Back in January a production Hetzer box of mine saw both HDDs die at the same time. That somewhat killed the redundancy benefit of RAID.

That said, it did spur a month-long effort to truly revamp my dusty backup-and-restore process so I'm in a much better position for when it happens again.

You're telling me swapping HDDs and letting RAID rebuild is slower than setting up the server again?!

A failed HDD should NEVER, EVER, bring a server down.

i should have mentioned that both disks reporting errors. The DNS change required less downtime than the downtime of backing up everything and setting up the servers from the start.

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