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DotDot Member

Hey! me and a friend of mine are planning to start a cloud storage service to provide people with customizable plans and cheap storage.
And currently we are looking for vps with really cheap HDD storage, for an indication of price, we'll provide 1tb of storage for 10$ so uhm yea, looking at nexusbytes pricing, at around 6.5$ per tb
And we won't be using next cloud or anything, we are coders and doing this project to learn more things and will be coding our front and the backend ourselves.

Btw here will be our monthly pricing, remember we are months away from our release and this is in no way to advertise, we just wanna know if our pricing is competitive
2$ 100gb storage, 300gb bandwidth
3$ 200gb storage, 600gb bandwidth
5$ 400gb storage, 1200gb bandwidth
10$ 1000gb storage, 3000gb bandwidth

You get 100 api calls an hour for 1$ a month, scales linearly (for fellow coders, this will have an api first approach)
And additional bandwidth at 1$ for every 200gb

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  • RackNerd

  • henixhenix Member

    You want to start a storage business but you look for 10$ vps for storage?

    @deank

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  • DotDot Member

    @henix said:
    You want to start a storage business but you look for 10$ vps for storage?

    @deank

    Lol no, I meant per terabyte

  • deankdeank Member, Troll

    I've been summoned.

    The end is nigh.

  • DotDot Member

    @deank said:
    I've been summoned.

    The end is nigh.

    Uhm what do you mean ?

  • tetechtetech Member
    edited May 2021

    Servarica offer 2TB for $48/yr = $2/TB/mo, so you're 500% higher at the outset. Plus they have uncapped BW and what the heck is this $0.01 per API call - that is robbery even by AWS standards.

    And this is before considering reputation - even if the price was the same, what is the reason why anyone would go with a kid who has just got an internship versus someone who does it as their livelihood.

  • DotDot Member

    @tetech said:
    Servarica offer 2TB for $48/yr = $2/TB/mo, so you're 500% higher at the outset. Plus they have uncapped BW and what the heck is this $0.01 per API call - that is robbery even by AWS standards.

    And this is before considering reputation - even if the price was the same, what is the reason why anyone would go with a kid who has just got an internship versus someone who does it as their livelihood.

    100 calls an hour for 1$ a month = 73000 calls a month for 1$

  • yoursunnyyoursunny Member, IPv6 Advocate

    Since you are a coder, here's an exam for you.

    I have a collaborator who wants to store about 5000TB of scientific datasets.
    Average file size is 1GB, and a file cannot change once written.
    Files are generated in Switzerland and accessed from multiple locations in the USA.
    File access should have minimal latency.

    How would you design the system so that it operates efficiently?
    Where would you place the datacenters?
    Suppose a file has been downloaded to a nearby datacenter, and another user wants to access the same file, how would you find the cached copy?

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  • tetechtetech Member

    @Dot said:

    @tetech said:
    Servarica offer 2TB for $48/yr = $2/TB/mo, so you're 500% higher at the outset. Plus they have uncapped BW and what the heck is this $0.01 per API call - that is robbery even by AWS standards.

    And this is before considering reputation - even if the price was the same, what is the reason why anyone would go with a kid who has just got an internship versus someone who does it as their livelihood.

    100 calls an hour for 1$ a month = 73000 calls a month for 1$

    And API means what? S3 compatible or something else? If something else => don't care. If S3 compatible => install minIO and be done.

  • lentrolentro Member, Host Rep

    @yoursunny said: 5000TB

    How is he storing this info? What filesystem, redundancy, data center, etc? Just curious :) That's a huge task

  • skorupionskorupion Member, Host Rep

    @tetech said: Servarica offer 2TB for $48/yr = $2/TB/mo,

    From when?
    https://servarica.com/storage-servers/
    Its 10 USD p/m or 110 USD per year.

  • yoursunnyyoursunny Member, IPv6 Advocate

    @lentro said:

    @yoursunny said: 5000TB

    How is he storing this info? What filesystem, redundancy, data center, etc? Just curious :) That's a huge task

    The datasets are coming from the Large Hadron Collider.
    Data center is in every university that wants to access the datasets.

    Their current solution is XRootD on a Ceph network.
    However, data transfer is not fast enough, and nearby cache lookup requires a centralized controller that could become a bottleneck.

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  • tetechtetech Member

    @skorupion said:

    @tetech said: Servarica offer 2TB for $48/yr = $2/TB/mo,

    From when?
    https://servarica.com/storage-servers/
    Its 10 USD p/m or 110 USD per year.

    https://servarica.com/clients/store/special-group-2021

    Currently OoS, restocked periodically (probably within the "months away" timeline of OP). Hosthatch special 10TB is $125/yr = $1.04/TB/mo. Lima hot is 10TB for $25/mo = $2.5/TB/mo (in stock, regular non-coupon price).

    This is aimed "really cheap" (see OP), in other words at people who are price-sensitive and tend to look for specials/coupons etc. But the point is, you can find an existing provider who offers a higher-end product (proactive checking for bit-rot, etc.) for less than half the proposed price, or a regular VPS for as much as 90% less if you hunt and/or wait.

  • defaultdefault Veteran

    @deank said:
    I've been summoned.

    The end is nigh.

  • drizbodrizbo Member
    edited May 2021

    Its said "Cloud storage", so you're not offering VMs, but a complete storage "web service" right?
    Because then you are competing more with Gdrive, Dropbox and others. This also means you need a proper replication of files as people wont be happy to loose files just cause your raid failed.

    With such service I imagine it would be hard to get paying users. You're competing against well known companies, so what would you offer that they don't?

    And for prices, Gdrive and dropbox offer practically twice the storage for same amount; 2TB ~10$

  • GayRunGayRun Member

    No, servarica can provide 1TB of storage for $2. Unless you have a regional advantage, network advantage

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