Originally Posted by AdultKing

I agree with most of what you have written except this.

I have several dozen servers with OVH. The moment there is any kind of hardware failure or the machine becomes unreachable then an intervention is automatically started and the problem is fixed in an average of half an hour.

Not all unmanaged server providers do this but OVH do completely monitor everything about your server and immediately respond to fix the issue.

Too many SMART errors on a RAID disk - it's replaced. CPU running too warm - cooling system is replaced, machine stops responding to pings - intervention brings it up again and so on.

I manage all of my own servers either directly or, as I am lucky enough to own a mainstream IT company, one of my staff will work on them.