New webhosts are not using RAID 1 mirroring, is that bad, or common?

[hpham]

Meanwhile we are using raid10 for all our shared hosting, VPS servers, I would say: if they do use R1soft, it's still good. Check with them how frequently they do backup. R1soft can be used for multiple backups per day, so if something wrong with your server, they can restore your data to another server quickly.

[Clint1]

.....I would say: if they do use R1soft, it's still good. Check with them how frequently they do backup. R1soft can be used for multiple backups per day, so if something wrong with your server, they can restore your data to another server quickly.

See my post #5 and #3 above.

[conortreacy]

I know it's an older thread but I thought I'd pop in and let you know that we had a server fail here recently that was in RAID1 and BOTH drives took the dive. Thankfully we use r1soft on all our servers and we were able to restore data to an alternate machine for users, but the failure of raid can and DOES happen, even when you've taken the precautions.

Also, if you're checking for RAID, be sure to ask for HARDWARE RAID and not Software. If you use Software RAID and one drive fails, BOTH fail, even if in mirror mode Promise Raid was notorious for that.

At the end of the day, ALWAYS have a backup none the less. A host likely has it in their TOS/AUP that they're not responsible for lost data, so protect yourself and have your own backups. There's also services out there that offer website backup services to remote locations.