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$75-100 USD
Hi,
I'm wondering what $75-100USD yearly will get me? I prefer a EU location, storage-centric vps (350-500GB+?) but will also use it to host a couple of low traffic sites, private torrenting (don't worry low upload/download usage)
I was going to go for a kimsufi/atom based dedicated server, but I can't convince myself that their cpu's will be robust enough to handle my needs
Thanks!
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Kimsufi is the best bet if you want to hammer it, but a media server (Thats what you want, right?) needs more powah
I don't think torrents use that much cpu. "Media server" makes me think of video transcoding which is different. A Kimsufi would be fine, or one of the @VortexNode $60/year Atoms if you can get one, or maybe one of @Francisco's 250GB storage KVM's at $70/year(?) if any of those are available in LU (ask for ram upgrade too). Or try worldstream.nl custom and clearance servers if you can increase your budget a little. The $15/mo i3 is a reasonably fast box for single thread performance and has a 500gb disk.
There's cheaper storage plans around (I'm obsessed with them) but they have comparatively low iops and cpu performance, which is fine for predominantly storage products rather than general purpose servers. But if you really need 500GB on the cheap you could try for an Iniz (openvz.io) 500gb storage plan in Amsterdam or London at 3 GBP/month if they come back in stock. They say "torrenting allowed, limit speed to 100mbit/s".
Torrents don't use much CPU, but the way it accesses and sends files can tend to beat on the disks a bit.
Also, you can have the Atom I just gave up from @VortexNode, if it's available. It was having a hell of a time getting an OS installed- and then decided it didn't want to boot after VN spent hours working on it.. I felt kind of bad that they only got $15 for the amount of work they did to get Debian installed.
The Atom should do the job just fine if the websites are low traffic. Torrenting is not really CPU intensive.
If you can live with 200GB and pay $120/year, for $10 a month you can get an 8gb, 6 core Scaleway Atom VPS with 200GB of pure SSD. It's NAS but still total I/O heaven compared to anything with a spinny disk.
Humm, I see, thanks for the suggestions--Kimsufi appears to be perpetually out of stock
I can't find VortexNode atom on their website, anyone know where i can find the specs?
Thanks!
Try http://kimi.nwwebsites.co.uk/ or https://check.ovh/
Why not get one of the cheaper plans and just add a bunch more storage to it?
That works too, but OP seemed to want cpu power as well as storage. The Atom cores are slow, but with enough of them you can do stuff.
https://www.vortexnode.com/clients/cart.php?gid=10 - seems to be out of stock at the moment.
I seem to recall @rds100 had some cheap dedis for a while...and he's in EU.
Thanks for all the suggestions folks! Lol it feels like Kimsufi/ovh is a bit of a lottery lately --vortex is pretty cool but they are out of stock and their hd's are only 250gb (https://www.vortexnode.com/clients/cart.php?gid=10) and @rds100 of fitvps has some interesting deals but not quite the amount of space I'm after.
thnx again
https://buyvm.net/storage-vps/ iirc the (free) ram upgrade is x4 @Francisco