So you have a dedicated server, congratulations! You finally moved from a shared hosting account to your very own server with no one else, a great step for improvement but there’s one big thing many new and existing server owners seem to overlook which is

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yes many new hosts just plain forget about back ups I use raid arays + local backup + another backup on another server you can nerver have to many


I have had 3 hard drives fail in the same month twice on the same server (before using Raid) had the sites up on another server before the drive totally failed clients never even knew