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Dedi Replacment: Should I stay or Should I go?
flatland_spider
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Updated: Now with reasonable network requirements.
Shoutout to The Clash for that line. 
Anyway...
I'm thinking about to dropping a dedi since I'm tired of the lack of support I've been getting. I understand people are busy, but it's 4 days short of a month from when I asked for a remote console to reinstall the OS.
Here's the current dedi:
- Quad Xeon
- 12GB RAM
- 3x 250GB SSDs
- 1Gbps uplink
- 100TB transfer
- $40/month
The three SSDs were a nice surprise, but it's main purpose was to be a backup/storage server with two large mirrored drives.
Here's the ideal dedi or hybrid:
- 4-8 thread CPU (Opteron or Xeon doesn't matter.)
- 16GB ECC RAM
- 2x 1TB+ disks (Software mirror is fine, and that's probably easier to deal with.)
- 1Gbps uplink 100Mbps-1Gbps uplink
- 100TB transfer 4-20TB transfer
- 1x+ IPv4
- 1x+ IPv6
- Console Access
- ~$40/month (Let me know if this is crazy.)
- Preferably close to Tulsa or at least in the western US.
Or should I just go with Tarsnap for my backup needs and find a 500GB+ storage KVM VPS for things like Gitea, Syncthing, and personal file hosting?
Flatland_Spider
PS: I also have three small KVM VPSs with them, and if anyone can provide some KVM VPSs, I'll drop them too:
- 1GB RAM
- 512MB Swap
- 40GB Disk
- 2x CPU
- 100Mbps port
- 500Gbps Transfer
- 1x IPv4
- Console Access
- KVM
- $1.99/month
Those are pretty ideal little VMs, but I could drop down to something in the following since they are just for testing/development:
- 0.5-1GB RAM
- 256-512MB Swap
- 20-40GB Disk
- 1-2x CPU
- 10-1000+Mbps port
- 250-500+Gbps Transfer
- 1x IPv4
- 1x+ IPv6
- Console Access
- KVM
- $1-5/month
I'm trying to get everything on IPv6, so it's a hard requirement.
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@gm5 - even if it's for the KVMs alone.
The 100TB transfer will be hard to beat. Given that 1mbit goes for around 0.25 usd/month, you're looking at 75 usd per month for the uplink alone.
$5/month.
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We would love to help but at this price point, it would be impossible for us.
Yeah, that's the big reason I've kept it around and tried to work with the support.
I canceled it, and I'm going to re-evaluate things.
I'm intrigued.
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What would make it possible, or what would be possible?
@flatland_spider what's your current provider?
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What's the policy on outing hosts? Do I drop a blind gossip tid bit and people have to guess?
I don't have a hatchet; it just was a bad relationship that I've decided to end. I just need to find all of my clothes.
Sounds like this deal from vortexnode: https://lowendbox.com/blog/vortexnode-com-vps-offer-1gb-kvmsolusvm-1-99mo-for-life-2/
They've been known to be somewhat slow in the support department, but those 24 days you experienced is quite bad.
@teamacc offtopic but what's happened with @VortexMagnus?
His account got repurposed by someone else in the vortexnode company, and, being a personal account, got banned for that.
Intel Pentium G6950 2.80GHz 2x 1TB 4GB 100TB @ 1Gbps 1* $ 39
This is at OneProvider Washington DC (LeaseWeb?)
Your restriction for the dedicated would be your budget. I don't think you'll find anything realistic at sub $100 per month. Do you realistically need 100TB per month?
As for the KVM, we just don't offer 1GB plans and don't have plans to do offer them in the near future.
If you would settle for a bigger KVM then we do offer KVM services starting at $10 on our site and there is a coupon that would bring that down to $7 per month recurring for the following:
KVM2G
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Use code LETKVM7 to bring it to $7 per month.
We could offer you the following from our NVMe KVM VPS Range:-
Looking Glass CA: http://lg.bhs.vmhaus.com
Looking Glass FR: http://lg.rbx.vmhaus.com
I've over the dedi. I've moved on to hunting other storage unicorns. VPS with dedicated resources and block storage. (Yes, I understand I am totally unreasonable and delusional.)
I just figures a dedi with 1TB+ of storage would be easier to find and more economical then something like DO's block storage.
Realistically, no.
That just happens to be part of the plan I was thinking about replacing, and that's probably the softest part out of the list.
I did have some serious backup plans though...![:\](https://lowendtalk.com/resources/emoji/confused.png ":\")
I'm probably going to trying out Tarsnap and/or SpiderOak as backup solutions, but that still leaves me with file syncing, code repos, and general file storage to cover.
Fair enough.
Thank you for the offer. I'm going to pass though. It's not the price, it's the RAM. It's too big.
I'll keep GoMach5 in mind for future VPS needs.
Ooooo... NVMe.
What's the port speed?
I appreciate that and if you happen to change your mind we would be happy to have you.
If you have a better idea on your actual bandwidth requirements for the dedicated server then it might be worth updating the original post and seeing if you can get some offers.
Regardless, good luck with your search as it seems you have a good idea of what you're after.
Port speed would be 1Gbps.
Let me know if you need any other details or customization! We would definitely be able to accomodate. Thanks!
Yeah, let me figure out how to do that.
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Cool. That's more then enough.
I see you do swap. How much swap is included, out of curiosity?
For VMH-1GB plans, we include in a minimal 512MB swap.
Great, that's more then enough.
Going with VMhaus for the KVM VMs. Thanks everyone!
Still interested in a VPS with dedicated resources and block storage for personal file storage, if there is such a thing.
Thanks for your support @flatland_spider, you would not be disappointed!
I've not been let down so far with VMHaus. Beats the normies in SATA now I'm one NVMeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Prometeus offers hosted seafile 900gb for (on sale now) 69euro/year (unlimited bandwidth in Romania DC )
http://www.prometeus.net/site/iwsea.php
It might cover your sync needs and they do take privacy seriously.
At ~$5/month, that's not a bad price. I'd be tempted to check that out for backups if it was closer then Romania.
Romania doesn't appear to have an information sharing pact with the US, so that's good.
the download speeds were pretty good when I tested. Dunno about your ISP though
http://lg-romania.prometeus.net/