New OVH servers: $63 for Xeon, 48GB RAM, 200mbps, 4TB disk

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I guess uptime on those servers isn't that important: "Network availability: 99.9%" - http://www.soyoustart.com/us/offers/sys-e32-1.xml#support

Not endorsing these guys since I have no idea what their availability is in practice, but isn't 3 nines a fairly common SLA? I believe this is what I get at Linode and Digital Ocean.

My experience with them is that their reliability is actually below that. We moved to Softlayer, couldn't be happier.

Not to be pedantic, but the 2 X 2 TB usually means it's a RAID setup, so it's actually 2 TB, not 4. Or am I wrong?

You can still use a software RAID.

Last time I checked, software RAID was at least as secure (a lot more tests) and efficient as hardware RAID, except for some high-end controllers which with an integrated small battery and cache.

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