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Hetzner - new product line 'storage box'
just noticed, that hetzner (beside lowering their prices on their optional backup space) now offers the same as product called 'storage box' which probably allows external access as it comes with traffic bundles.
https://www.hetzner.de/us/hosting/produktmatrix/storagebox-produktmatrix
probably will go and check on it later (esp. for speeds)
just thought something like 2 TB at € 9,90 may be of interest around here ;-)
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Wow, that sounds indeed great!
Maybe I have to try that sometimes soon - anyone with an "early bird" experience?
Seems you only get space through a pre-defined set of access methods? In other words, no root access?
This is why the prices are cheap. With root access you would have a server. Here, you have a backup space you can access in different convenient ways.
Its something like Owncloud/Pydio/etc
More likely something like a ZVOL volume and some daemons in a FBSD jail with host running ZFS on one of the high end hetzner storage boxes.
That's great news and will save me money - I have some dedicated servers, just for backups there. No need for them any longer now. Great!
What bother me is concurrent connections per account 10... you should get multiple small ones than one bigger
Isn't this a step to most of you with dedicated servers?
probably all depending on what you want to use that for. if for backup, you would probably rarely use more than one ftp/scp/cifs connection at a time or at least will be able to schedule different servers.
if you intend to do something owncloud/dropbox like sharing, I don't think this will work good. as far as i remember their backup solution doesn't provide options to have more than one user account at all.
couldn't resist ;-)
as far as I can see, there is an option to easily switch the size of the box. haven't tried that yet, so can't tell if the whole data and credentials will remain - but that's the only thing would probably make sense.
regarding the billing of a size change I'd guess they will prorate and charge on a daily base, as that's what they usually would do on other products.
for cancelation I can see an option to withdraw cost free within first 14 days of use as with their other products too. after that their normal 30 days cancelation period is in place.
now going to try and connect this to a server over at OVH to check out speeds ;-)
We're talking Hetzner here
that SX61 with 24TB is pretty slick. shame they didn't stick that free setup promo w/ that instead of the EX40
Could be interesting if they offered this as an iSCSI volume. As file storage... no thanks.
This is exactly what I have always wanted. A shame that I have now found a better solution and that they won't adjust the pricing for the next 5 years.
Pricing is attractive indeed.
some speeds out of ovh to that box...
created a non-zero dummy file with dd if=/dev/urandom of=dummy bs=100k count=1024
mounted via cifs:
mounted via sshfs with Compression=no:
sshfs seems to be fastest, but as the owner cannot be changed for files/dirs on that box it throws more likely errors even on a simple mkdir. cifs does handle this much better ;-)
rsync onto mounted space isn't an option after all, as it relies on being able to change owners/ids and probably user hardlinks and such. to use this one would need to loopback a previously created image file...
edit: did this (loopback image file which resides on storage box mounted via sshfs) to complete my playing around and get some numbers out of rsync, which I use quite a lot:
a lot about handling that space is described in hetzners wiki http://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Backup/en ... very helpful at least.
I dont think you want ISCSI over the internet, especially if you can't get it in some encrypted tunnel.
Necro-ing to let anyone who doesn't know yet:
Hetzner BX storage now supports borgbackup.
https://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/BorgBackup/en
Also: https://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Backup/en#BorgBackup
and https://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Storage_Boxes/en#BorgBackup.
Let me know if this is unacceptable necro. I was unsure.
That's some impressive necro. Given that you've already done it, might as well let it stay. Next time maybe make a separate thread or post it in the cest pit?
Seems okay to me. If one explicitly acknowledges that he/she is necro-ing and says why (like you did), it should be okay (if the justification is reasonable). :-)Edit: See my comment below.
Impressive necro post, definitely useful. Was already sold at cheap storage. Icing on the cake.
Ouch: I guess that I went against what @teamacc wrote above just before me. (I hadn't yet seen his post.) Better listen to him, he's a moderator. :-)
WTF ... 2+ year old thread for this BS ... really dude ? @vimalware
@angstrom #NoNetBSD4oil
That was a useful necro for me at least. ;-)
What's the issue? It's a relevant necro, why open a new thread when there is on that is still relevant and adds to the discussion saving a repeat of what has already been said.
A new thread would've been able to spread the information just as well, and would avoid older comments getting quoted and people getting notifications for it.
This is not "official policy" though, then again, very little actually is.
Edit: Just re-read my previous comment and this one, and they seem quite harsh. Didn't (don't) mean it that way. @vimalware asked on advice wether or not this necro was a good idea, and i tried to answer that as best as i possibly could.