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High Storage VPS for BitTorrent Sync
Hi all,
I'm thinking of setting up two geographically and provider diverse VPSs with high storage to install BitTorrent Sync on for data backup.
I'm looking for something with at least 100GB storage, substantial traffic, low RAM (256-512MB would be sufficient)... but the aim is to keep it under $20/y for each box.
Is this too ambitious? Any suggestions as to what providers would meet this requirement?
Cheerio.
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How much is "substantial traffic"? You can take a look at our promo here in Amsterdam, New York & Los Angeles:
http://lowendtalk.com/discussion/34687/iniz-100gb-20-yr-amsterdam-new-york-los-angeles-offers-ipv4-ipv6
Thanks Patrick.
Hmm... substantial is probably a relative word there. But I'd say ~1TB would be enough for now... just enough to sync up and down (and across servers).
Those plans do look good but I have spotted one from Crissic for $15/y 100GB, 2TB traffic and 512MB RAM... so I'm grabbing one of those. Will consider that offer though
edit: link to Crissic offer (via LowEndStock) - https://my.crissic.net/aff.php?aff=058&pid=45
i-83 Custom Plan or Double Up?
i-83 might be a bit out of my reach. I like the geographical separation from US but it doesn't look like pricing for 100GB would work for my budget.
I have the one from crissic without any complaint
$20 per year for that much traffic, disk space and system load generated by the constant BitTorrent process... I'd definitely recommend that you confirm with the web host and their terms of service before signing up.
Thanks for the suggestion - I will check with the provider.
edit: Crissic's AUP states that BitTorrent Sync is allowed - looks like I'm in the clear
1TB traffic is on the safe side for the first sync and mirror to the other servers. After that, the traffic would be in the low gigs, not terabytes. I simply don't have enough bandwidth at home to sync that much data anyway.
The use of the disk space is a given. But the bysync-daemon has been counting a 0.3 load at sync and 0.1 load at idle, OS + daemon uses around 100MB of memory. It's not as resource intensive as I had imagined:
@tsangk are you using Crissic as an encrypted peer? Because I would like to know if the load goes considerably up when syncing to an encrypted btsync daemon. From my understanding it shouldnt, because encryption happens on client side.
@chrisp: No, I think I'm just running it as a regular peer. The data gets decrypted back on the Crissic server. Allows me to provide external links to the files if needed.
348MB RAM
100GB Disk
10TB BW
NAT Only (extra $3 for static)
KVM
$12 a year
Thanks @TarZZ92 - I'm interested... Any details on server location?
For these type of prices. as cheap as possible so OVH.
Hi
OVH France or Canada?
Anyway, any order link?
Cheers
OVH EU
PM for Link
can you pm me the link as well...
Mind PM'ng me the link aswell?