alt Hacker NewsI'm not sure if you read my post.
When you have 2 nodes running, both are mirrored and running, one can have hardware break.
Also, hardware can provide failure notifications before it breaks, and experience teaches to just update and upgrade before hard drives break.
Since tools like proxmox just add a node, you add new hardware, mark the VM for that node to mirror, and it is taken care of.
Terraform etc can sit below Proxmox and alleviate what you're speaking about:
Some examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvyeoDBUtsU
Indeed, I missed the "two servers" part; a two-node mirrored config is what I suggested myself elsewhere in the thread. It's still much less expensive than anything comparable in the cloud.