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Importance of A+B Power?
concerto49
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Would anyone want this or pay more for it? It applies to dedicated servers, but also VPS that comes out of it.
Especially seeing that a power failure could possible destroy RAID cards and the data etc causing a huge mess as well.
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A power failure is an obviously catastrophic failure, it comes down to if you care about redundancy.
Edit: to more directly answer your question, if your clients care about their data, or uptime, then I'm sure they'll have an interest in this. If not immediately, most definitely through an up-sell on your part if you explain the benefits.
Yeah well, that's the question. You just rephrased it
Edited what I said to better respond to your question.
As we have seen in cases as BuyVM and FH, the power can fail on one leg pretty often, be it because of a wire failure, maintenance error, a fuse or a UPS reboot.
In this case you do not wish to have single psu or single power leg.
For my colo server where i test the network, it can be without, after all, the raid card already failed of old age and now there are 2 sata drives without any raid, so, if it fails, nothing much will happen, except i have to go there to collect the corpse, but if I have customers on it, that will be a very different story.
A+B isn't even available at FH still apparently, so enough said, but agrees on the rest.
Do you have A+B @ Prometueus?
I wouldn't pay more for it, I more of less expect a host to do this. It's their business on the line if a server fails and they can't easily recover. I've got some experience with a messed up RAID set and it's always very ugly.
For a $7/5GB VPS? 0.o
This is BUDGET hosting we're talking about here. This isn't Linode, or some other high-end provider. Power is already spendy, adding another layer of cost onto it isn't going to keep stuff below $7 per month.
Very few non enterprise customers buy A/B from us.
Even for those. Not that I would buy it, but still. It's an investment in your own equipment as well. If it breaks down, you've got to buy new stuff. Saving it may be cheaper.
A+B power on supermicro at least both connect to the a single power interface board and introduces an additional single point of failure.