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I would not shut down this PC for an extended time period...
It hosts a handful of rather large Wordpress sites for a client, in essentially a managed-server capacity. They've been happy with the performance (back when RAQs still roamed the datacenters, you quickly learned how to optimize software) and never asked for an upgrade, and WII has never offered an upgrade any time a PSU or HD has died. I'm sure if I pestered them they'd probably give me an Atom or something, but, eh.
I mean, a couple years ago the client took a full frontal slashdotting on there, and survived just fine. With code optimizations over the years, the sites are probably faster now than it was originally. (Wordpress, years and years ago, was... not fast.)
I got it on some holiday (Black Friday, maybe) promo they were having at the time. $45/mo. And no, they've not adjusted the price, either, though I think they have upped the bandwidth to be in line with current offerings, since IIRC back then you got like 100GB/mo with a server, and it's been exceeding that monthly for... several years, without any overages.
That's quick. My Kimsufi server waited 28 days for a new drive.
OVH has always been good to me. We've had disks swapped out in 30 minutes or less. Actually exemplary in all but one occasions when on a RAID1 server, they pulled the wrong disk and then couldn't find it.
@comXyz - I kid you not. But out of 15-20 disk failures over the past 2 years the rest were handled perfectly and quickly.
With new configuration coming in, the prices of the old hardwares are going down.
Instead of going such low configuration and grabbing a dedicated server, why not go with a newer hardware VPS?