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What's your budget?
time4vps is still cheapest, otherwise wishosting introduced a 7$/m 1TB NAT VPS recently.
my budget is decent but I have not come to a conclusion. I calculated my cost on Amazon S3+Glacier and its $16 (350GB S3+ 1.5TB Glacier storage) so the VPS should be cheaper than that
Open for yearly offers as well but only confident in a known brand, used to have a @serverian and it was flawless but I canceled that awesome plan and now they are not so lowendish price wise. Service was top notch though
https://mnx.io/pricing/
They have $15/month 1TB SSD cached storage servers.
Are you saying your budget is $16 for 1TB? Or for 1.85TB scaled down to 1TB? Maybe you really want 2TB? If the competition is Glacier, you could give Online C14 a look (0.002 euro/GB/month storage plus 0.01/GB transfer in or out iirc). Hetzner has a 2TB StorageBox product at 10 euro/month (ftp/scp, not a vps) plus the various LET hosts.
@Asim pmed you
Not recommending c14 atm -
No, it was just a comparison. Yes I need 1TB initially
thanks, replied
thanks, I'll look into it
thanks for the review @pbgben
Did you get any response to your ticket?
There's also the OVH Cloud Archive product with similar pricing model.
Not really, I was hoping to get the testing done before it was archived. As I would then have to pay for operations too. (7Days before auto archive)
All my suggestions have already been posted :
In order of trustworthiness and future-proofness
for temporary storage space on monthly basis.
for a Yearly commit with some risk (ceph)
Zxhost $48/yr 1TB ceph kvm. (this could be a primary with time4vps as a secondary location, for better disaster resilience )
I'm sure the bandwidth and retrieval costs of Glacier will make any 1+1 service combination worth it.
But raid-5
. I don't know whether that's something to worry about.
KS-2A (I got one with a 2TB drive) w/ ZFS. Even though I might not have money for food, I somehow find a way to pay the $12 every month.
Wait, ZFS on one drive? Hmmm
Interesting @AshleyUK's offer is still up. I hope that doesn't jinx it
@Asim do you have a location preference? In the US (Utah) I'm tempted by this (1TB raid-6 KVM, $7/mo):
https://billing.httpzoom.com/cart.php?a=add&pid=172&carttpl=cart¤cy=2
Everything I have that's important isn't sitting on OVH.
NAT storage? @i83 perhaps? 1T £70/yr
@Asim - long time no see! Welcome back.
Vultr sells storage instances but are out of stock in Amsterdam and Tokyo. In New Jersey, they're at $5 per 125GB and it scales linearly from there. I think you have to login to the panel though as I don't see them listed on their pricing page.
Nope just feeling nice currently
What the fuck is up with that math? $7/mo, $53/3 months, $120/6 months, $210/12 months.
Edit: LoL looked up the 256GB one, and they charge you $1 to turn on TAP/TUN so you can use it as a VPN. Mmmyeaahh. No.
The $7 reflects some coupon in the offer thread iirc. See:
It's the fact that it bills monthly- but you can't prepay for that rate which confuses me.
Shrug, if you want to pursue it you could ask them. I personally have enough storage for now, so I only kept the url around for future reference.
It is an array of 4 drives.
Right, is that a problem? I opened a thread about 4-drive raid with large drives a while back, but it wasn't conclusive.
The problem is a rebuild time in case 1 drive fails completely. In case of this package the downtime will be around 8 hours.
Hi, if you need storage from 1 TB up to 4 TB - our services will satisfy this need. Full root access, RAID6 arrays. https://www.time4vps.eu/
more problematic then dealing with rebuild time itself here is the risk to run into an URE on one of the other drives while rebuilding the raid. especially for a smaller number of large disks that is... ( http://www.zdnet.com/article/has-raid5-stopped-working/ )
And that's why RAID is not a replacement of backups. Anyway the URE problem can be "dealt with" if you are ok with losing data in this chunk. While it is not completely fine it is better than loosing all data.
totally agree with that! but one should be aware of the risks after all.
Raid5 should be fine to protect against single point of failure aka loosing data by having a bad drive. anyways if it happens to come to that failure of a single drive, strategy most probably should not be rebuilding but at first moving data in a prioritized order out to another place.
If your after good speed, I can do R0 - Rebuild time is non-existent compared to those other guys. No point in keeping backups if they're not in multiple locations.