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Hi Guys, thanks for the comments.
I've used third party services in the past without much success. Problem is commitment and reponsibility in their work. Here's a couple of horror stories: wrong box taken offline and wiped out when closing an account (oops!... yeah right), second drive in a RAID server went bad not noticed for 2 months then on box reboot overwritten the newer version of databases and websites on the one that was actuall working (oops!... again).
One of the issues I have with local and the reason I'm offshore is bandwidth. Here you don't get much. I guess it has something to do with Telstra ultimately. The only true redundancy solution would be round robin DNS with multiple boxes but I can't afford that.
My reasoning was that it's possible to mirror a boot drive, at least the OS and site configuration and shelf it so in case of major problem you can boot and go online asap. Even if it's mounted as a slave in the same machine?
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