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ChicagoVPS still down after almost a week, may have lost my data
Response from ChicagoVPS support on Tuesday when I could not see my VPS in their control panel over the prior weekend:
"We are currently working on this, the system is having hardware problems so we can trying [SIC] to get the data off the system. We are doing our best right now."
It's still down as of 06/27/2014. And on top of it all they billed me a few days ago!
Even if they recover the server and restore it, how can I ever trust them going forward?
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You can't. Get what you can of your data and move elsewhere.
You should be keeping backups anyway.
For future reference, you should never trust any provider with important data. If it's that important, make backups
Cvps's backups Atlest do work. I've asked then to restore my vps the their last backup twice after I messed something up.
Their backups are once a week.
I'm not worried about the data because I indeed had backed up locally. It's just the principal of the situation....
Glad to hear. In that case I would move over to a new provider ASAP.
The nature of very cheap providers is that. I use them, but always have daily or more often backups. And then, If something goes wrong or if the server's stability and/or speed goes downhill, then, I simply move my jobs to another low end server, that works. I almost have never fail with this, except in a couple of times that was my fault (didn't have backups, didn't monitor quickly enough etc.).
But, generally, with this practice, I have almost bulletproof systems with a lot of backups, failovers and great uptime and stability. The only disadvantage to that is that I must have an eye all the time, with monitoring 24/7 thru my mobile phone.
As of CVPS, one of my boxes there is veeeeery slow, I ticketed them with no real solution till now (they fixed for a couple of weeks but it went slow again)
I don't host anything important on my CVPS. I'm surprised that i'm getting disk I/O up to 1.0GB/s.
I actually use mine and I get about 150 MB/sec on SSD cached server. Other than that 0-day solusVM exploit, I haven't had any noticeable issues with them.
RAID is not a backup. It's a best effort of redundancy. YOUR DATA, YOUR RESPONSIBILITY!
I've lost data from small hosts and even a better known one who had a faulty RAID card then all the drives were corrupted. It was a few years ago. I went to dedicated servers now.