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IPMI/BMC is a must if plan to keep the server running longer than a release cycle of your Linux distribution.

Also remember ask your provider to assign you a private vlan and vpn to it for your own access only.

A working BMC is great, but I sure wouldn't want it facing the open web. The colo would either need some sort of private network, or you'd need to add a router and firewall of some sort to lock down access to the BMC.

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