I moved to dedicated servers and VPSs many years ago with various suppliers who have a reputation for reliability but were not charging a premium for it.
Result - if I'd had more than one break a year on any server I'd been surprised. Most have uptimes in years. Usually a break is not a server but a router problem. Reload or replace it isn't difficult and downtime should be no more than an hour or two.
I can only recall once which was a disk crash so it was a rebuild for me. That was a day lost but my clients were running off a backup server in the time it takes to clear DNS caches.
Am I very lucky or Heart Internet very unlucky. But then its clear HI have a single point of failure. That's unforgiveable these days.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
