My colo server died earlier today (completely unrelated to this) and didn't come back up because GRUB hadn't reinstalled properly on a replaced software RAID disk.
Damn. I should've hired you as my Adsense consultant. I haven't used Adsense in years and I couldn't find the spot to put in the keywords? I was probably doing it wrong. Too busy fixing all my broken databases.
The chassis has 2.5" bays, and so do the SSDs we used. However, the only MLC SSDs available were 1.8" versions, hence my comment. We had to work pretty hard to get any of them!
My colo server died earlier today (completely unrelated to this) and didn't come back up because GRUB hadn't reinstalled properly on a replaced software RAID disk.
But yes, Nagios did tell me it was down :)