There are many companies out there with old servers still chugging along. If left long enough and with enough turnover of IT staff they sometime are forgotten. Some things to keep in mind when one day your server decides to stop working.
- When your hosting provider is bought by another company make sure you contact the new regional representative and go over the NEW service agreement with them
- Make sure it clearly states who manages what and who is responsible for addressing hardware failures
- Refresh your hardware every 3 years or when the model is older then 3 generations back. That is called budgeting
- Don't have single points of failure like 1 server
- Consider virtualizing servers
- Have a plan for when a server goes down. Random calls to the entire team in the middle of the night usually doesn't go over very well
- Last but not least thank the guys who are up all night getting it fixed
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