On Thu, Jun 07, 2007, Gabor Szabo wrote about "Re: OT: Hosting": > I have recently setup a new server with http://www.m5hosting.com/ > > They are responsible for everything that needs physical proxymity > I have root access and do whatever I want.
When everything runs smoothly, there's not much need for physical access. I am running a server in a hosting facility for 10 years, and I don't think I went there physically more than 5 times. HOWEVER, I can hardly imagine having no physical access. What happens if you have, say, a disk failure, and the system won't boot (so you can't access anything remotely), what do you do to salvage what can be salvaged from the disk? If, say, someone breaks into your machine, how do you reinstall the OS? "KVM over IP" is nice, but if you need to reboot the machine, or stick in a CD-ROM to boot, it might not be enough. I found myself more than once (but again, not more than 5 times in 10 years) sitting in the hosting facility for many hours doing some emergency repair work that couldn't be done remotely (and couldn't be done by the facility operators - and even if it could be done they would charge you an arm and a leg to do it). So how does it work for you without physical access? Anyway, their monthly fee appears to be $105, not the $70 that someone suggested. That's cheaper than the Israeli hosters I know, but not twice cheaper. > Actually as most of the stuff I host there is for international > visitors, it is better > to have it in the US. Indeed. This, of course, depends on the intended audience of your server. If it's mostly for your own use, you are the intended audience :-) -- Nadav Har'El | Thursday, Jun 7 2007, 21 Sivan 5767 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |If Windows is the answer, you didn't http://nadav.harel.org.il |understand the question. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
