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Storage/Backup VPS
Hello guys,
Im just wondering on the current demand for high storage VPS's, talking about 150GB upto several TB's, and within budget pricing ofcourse.
What would you go for, specs wise, if you want a high storage vps?
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backup? I guess only bandwidth and storage are the important factors.
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As absolute requirements for a storage VPS, I would have: * Custom software allowed (I use Tahoe-LAFS for my storage grid, for example) * At least 256MB of RAM, 384-512MB if OpenVZ+burst (due to Tahoe-LAFS and it being Python) * Either unmetered traffic with low bandwidth (say, 20mbit) - or, preferably, burstable to at least 100mbit with a high amount of traffic (several terabytes). * An acceptable amount of (burst) CPU power, for storage solutions that use encryption. Doesn't have to be incredibly much, but a maximum capacity of for example 500mHz is not going to cut it. Doesn't have to be dedicated. * Reliability/RAID would not be very important to me, since Tahoe-LAFS already takes care of redundancy and fault-tolerance.
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Buy a kimsufi with 1TB Disk lol
I already have a few storage nodes at OVH, and I'm trying to geographically distribute my nodes - so that wouldn't help much. And as far as I know there aren't very many providers offering Kimsufi-like servers.
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@joepie91 there are, but not at the same price ;-)
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I'm interested. A good offer would have this:
Why would you have a back up storage with no redundancy
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Is there some reason you need to have high throughput to get your backups stored? Is there any difference to you if you can transfer the data at a lower rate?
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@miTgiB The faster the transfer - the shorter the backup window, and the snapshot on the source server can be released sooner. This means lower overhead on the source. Overall this also allows for more frequent backups.
Honestly, I hate this answer. That kimsufi has a single disk so there's no fault tolerance.
People who think "it's only backups" have a different attitude towards data than I have.
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That's quite a bit more expensive than Kimsufi.
To be fair, I did say
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Yes, thats a good one - till people abuse and start installing other non-backup related software, and host sites out of it too...
1TB is not enough, people need far more these days hhhh.
Yep, I agree ...
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Then introduce a rule that says you cannot host public-facing services off it?
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I would agree with you if the Kimsufi server was the only backup method used. If used in conjunction with other methods it shouldn't be an issue.
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MySQL backups often lock the database while they are running.
Are you going to remotely do the backup though? Or just dump on the local machine and gzip and transfer?
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Why the heck do you need RAID for your backups. If you want reliable backup, you don't go and backup to RAID, silly, you backup using two or more vastly different strategies (e.g. to that single disk, and also locally to an external drive or tape).
Because they've very important.
I prefer multiple backups each to different RAID-protected servers/disks. Disk is cheap and losing a drive is a pain. I don't use a single drive anywhere except laptops where there isn't a choice.
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https://www.seedhost.eu/whmcs/cart.php?gid=2
> The Spanish version of that http://www.kemsirve.es/
@yeradis even though it is a different website, they are all hosted in France, and now they are offering .ca in Canada. They do not use .es (Spain) datacenter as far as I know :P
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i'm currently in-between getting a VPS for Backup from datashack or volumedrive datashack: VPS Premium 1 - $10 now $7.5 with coupon 150 GB HDD 2 GB Ram 1 IP 2 TB Bandwidth
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They're resold OVH boxes at a significant markup by the look of it.
LOL All Seedbox's generally are in OVH.
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i'd go with datashack.
I can't find this plan.
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@wicka Looks more like dixhost to me...
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That looks like a plan from one of DixHost's WHT posts.
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i've finally found a similar offer from a provider a little less obscure
sorry, its dixhost as mentioned by @jarland & @ihatetonny . Their datacenter: ovh, france wrong copy'n'paste from my notepad :P
so kemsirve.es is kimsufi brand?
200G hdd on torqhost for 3dollar yearly
Yes, its kimsufi
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spanish version i believe :P
This. You must order from the right site depending on your location.
Here the table: http://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/availability.xml
And the corresponding kimsufi ones
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Do you have a link for that?
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@djvdorp He means 3 dollars per month if you pay annually. (It's really 2.50 euro, less VAT since their advertised prices include VAT, and then converted to USD)
EDIT: Looks like they don't remove VAT when you update your country...
Looks like hostigation backup plans are all in stock.
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