Haz, Fletch Hasues wrote: > I don't have any answers for you there. But I will make one > suggestion to you. You should make sure you have out of band access > to a server like this in a situation such as yours. Decent servers > have lights ouit, management, or system console cards with a network > stack on them. If you had this access, you could obtain console on > the host, or even physically reset the host. If your hosting > provider can not provide you with this type of access, then I would > look around for another provider.
I am shopping around, have been for a few years. Your basic options for cheap whole-system hosting are: 1 Real Dedicated Hosting where a properly server-class box with some kind of LOM, or at least a KVMoIP. 2 Virtual Private Servers, living in some kind of VM. 3 My dodgy hosting company, who will give you a generic beige box in an air-conditioned warehouse somewhere. Option #1 is obviously preferable, but crazy expensive; at least 3x the cost of #2 or #3. I just can't afford it. Option #2 is getting better all the time, but I still have crawling paranoia about letting someone else dictate what kernel I'm booting, which is often a requirement (Xen, virtuozzo, etc.). Option #3 is an awesome amount of power for a very reasonable price, but, obviously, fraught with problems. In any case: I know what killed my system now, partly: my LDAP randomly died, taking syslogd with it. Everything after that until I got it rebooted wasn't written to disk. :-/ -- Thorne Lawler Technical Consultant Managed Services | Infrastructure Services | Server Support Unix | KAZ Group Pty Ltd 360 Elizabeth Street | Melbourne Victoria 3000 (03) 9631 1747 | 0408 491 552 | Fax: (03) 9654 7334 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.kaz-group.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------
