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Comment on Ask HN: What maintenance should a dedicated server have?

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- You will want to do regular firmware updates, say once or twice a year. For example, to prevent this "SSDs locking up after 40K hours" issue that may have taken the HN primary and backup down recently.

- Regular OS updates, say weekly or biweekly.

- RAID array monitoring to you know when the first drive dies rather than the second.

It's probably pretty similar to your VPSes otherwise. Make sure you have backups.

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