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recently i built a cheap web hosting company

i have a huge server as i have many clients due to my $6.95 domain offer

i need more hdd's and alogether the servers will accept around 50.000 more gigs (all of them will)

what are the best hdd's to use

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raised the key question for a small web‑hosting fleet: capacity, cost and reliability. If "50.000 gigs" means about 50,000 GB (~49 TB), the practical choices come down to three tradeoffs: raw TB per dollar, rebuild risk on large drives, and IOPS/latency for your workloads (many small files, databases, mailboxes vs mostly static content).

Use enterprise "nearline" 3.5" drives for bulk storage and SSDs for OS/DB/caching. Enterprise lines (Seagate Exos, Western Digital Ultrastar/HGST, Toshiba enterprise series) give better firmware, TLER/ERC-like behavior, and longer warranties than desktop disks. Prefer SAS or enterprise SATA on a proper HBA/backplane. Avoid consumer/desktop drives in RAID arrays and avoid SMR drives for write‑heavy or RAID/NAS use—SMR can slow writes and rebuilds dramatically.

Design arrays for long rebuild times. Large disks take many hours to rebuild; that raises the chance of a second failure or URE. Use dual‑parity protection (RAID6, RAID‑Z2) or erasure coding in a distributed store (Ceph/Gluster) if you plan to scale across many enclosures. Keep hot spares, test rebuilds off hours, and monitor SMART and controller alerts automatically.

Operational items that often get missed: buy from reputable resellers and check warranty/RMA policies; ensure enclosures have proper airflow and vibration tolerance; keep firmware unified across drives in a pool; use an HBA/controller with good vendor support and battery/flash‑backed cache if you need write performance; use SSDs or NVMe for metadata and caching layers. Finally, maintain offsite backups and clear maintenance windows so client impact is minimized—reputation matters as much as hardware (see ’s observations about public perception of the service).

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amd_sucks or someone help me figure out what the hell is going on.

look at the source of the link provided by amd_sucks

Who owns duoservers? Does the person who owns own duoservers too?

if you go here: http://www.duoservers.com/ it should look like the page amd_sucks linked to above...however,

if you go here: http://www.duoservers.com/?r=jcr266

it's different, very different. in fact look at the bottom links...they are very weird..especially the last one.

But if you click back on http://www.duoservers.com/ it will probably direct you to the website with weird links at the bottom.

Now click back on

And again http://www.duoservers.com/

WERID?

And if you try to open http://www.duoservers.com/ in IE...you get a page that just says "Wrong page"

what does this all mean? amd_sucks? I'm just curious.

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its pretty confusing eh---i own duoservers and the servers need sorting out :)

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