If if do a site:example.com (my domain of course) using Chrome and Google, I see a hit for my home page in my log file from me using a IP from an IP block that is unmistakable. If I do a search for example (my domain less tld), I get the same thing. I had the Google Analytics plug-in installed- but I removed it and closed the browser and restarted it. It sill happens. Has anyone seen this?? Are any of you willing to test this for your domain? Obviously Chrome is pinging my site. But why?

Thank you @closetnoc and @Stephen Your comments helped me heaps really. I appreciate you writing to me since when it comes to dedicated server specs, I dont have much clue. Much obliged! I am looking forward in taking my first step from VPS to this dedicated server plan. :)

@StephenOstermiller Ah Ha!! Clever- maybe. I noticed it the other day when watching my log files live, but I did not put two and two together until last night. The first time I thought it was strange but was on a more important topic. I only hit my site if I have a problem. I do a site: to check the index count when curious or when I want to know what sites mention my domain name from time to time. I do other similar searches. Now I know. Thanks!!

@blackops_programmer SSD has improved significantly in the past few years so in my opinion they are far better than traditional hard drives. Most are much faster and more reliable. I do not recommend Raid 1- ever. I like raids, but raid 1 can be subject to errors effecting both drives. I had an app do a write to a block space that failed and caused the system not to boot. It took both drives out. I have seen this a few times. I would do a stripe-set or no raid at all.

@blackops_programmer SATA is more than fine. I prefer SCSI of course, but SATA seems to be a good substitute and heavily used within commercial production spaces these days. I am looking to build two servers and can go to about 35tb (each) using SATA in raid 5 in one 2u chassis. Of course I cannot do that with SSD or SCSI without adding them externally. So they have their place even in the commercial world.

@blackops_programmer I like stripe set raids. They are highly reliable. Add a hot spare within the raid and you are even more fault tolerant. But these require several drives. SSD drives are reliable enough that you should not have too many problems if at all. But nothing lasts forever. Just make sure you are making backups that you can recover from.