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Thanks. I'm not using VMs right now (just bare metal) but maybe I should. I like the idea of 500gb raid1 for active stuff and the rest non-raid for static. Can back it up on OVH cloud archive, 0.002 euro/GB/month plus 1 cent upload and 1 cent download cost. Since it's backup, the hope is the download cost will never be incurred.
OVH Cloud archive is more likely a pain in the ****
yes cheap, but only usable for a very small usecase I'd say...
tinkered around with it some days ago, I think you won't like it. at least if you use it make sure you don't put files on it you need any time soon besides the literally worst case.
every single file has to be 'unfrozen' manually before you can download it again... also I could access it with scp/sftp only from within OVH not from hetzner directly.
for hetzner 2x3TB server I'd setup just a small system partition in raid1 (<100GB) and two big single disk partitions.
to achive some redundancy for important files while being flexible on sizes I'd then setup glusterfs locally on top replicating into a directory of each of those big data partitions. so the mirrored data always only use their real size x2 and the rest of both partitions is available for non-important stuff. no need to decide on raid size before ;-)
Kimsufi madness to every householder gov program just began.. Setup fee as gov tax included.
What the fuck did I miss?
May be @cociu sarkasm today?
every single file has to be 'unfrozen' manually
Oh that's interesting. So if used at all, it should be as a few giant tarballs. IIRC you also tried C14--was that any better? Trouble with that is they charge you to delete files, if you want to pay the lower gb/month level.
Interesting idea about duplicating some files with glusterfs. I'll look into it. Basically there's 3 types of files on the box: 1) static archives (several TB), don't want to lose them but they don't change much; 2) current working data, maybe a few hundred GB tops; it's inconvenient if this is lost but it can be reconstructed/re-downloaded; 3) current live files such as program code. This should be in raid and I also replicate it to other machines (remote git repo). So I figured a 500gb raid partition for #2 and #3 wouldn't burn too much space. Maybe even 250gb is ok.
Like people says, it's different accounts. But I used my Kimsufi account to get my OVH account without sending my ID again. Just gave them my Kimsufi account number, and then I had my OVH account. Maybe a smart thing to do before the next OVH sale.
Myhken, interesting. I can send them my US/CA account handle. They never asked me for ID either, but I've been with them a while and had several servers with them.
It's about 7 hours now and they're still checking my payment manually. I guess they do it in the daytime in France so I'll check on it again tomorrow.
I thought I told you to fuck off and never speak to me again?
Did anyone already got access to their servers?
It sounds to me like some people got them, maybe because they already had active kimsufi accounts. I got a message (new account) saying my payment was being manually approved, which I figure means late tonight (i.e. daytime in France) as mentioned above.
I have another account with them from France. You think it's fine if I tell them my validated account and they could merge it?
No idea. I opened a ticket telling them the ID of my US/CA account but I know the US and EU operations are separate, with US/CA having only part of the OVH product line.
So a guy here got an i5 or... Its purely not related to this order?
Who?
I don't think anyone here got an i5. There is a separate thread about a KS3C promo of a week or so ago. That was an i3 offer and quite a few people got i5's instead of i3's. I never heard of anyone getting an i5 instead of an Atom
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you're confused...
Ooops sorry. Im on mobile phone so I think I mixed up.
the server i got yesterday works nice, but the hdd has 22000hours (two and half year 24/7)
They are still at "We check your payment manually" for me.
Same...
I saw the i3 offer but it was only available at location BHS so I didn't order. Was there an order link for RBX or GRA as well? I figured those sold out before which is why I only saw BHS order link.
it was more of lottery at that i3 sale few weeks ago, i was lucky and got i5-2400 at RBX4
May be just more Kimsufi and freedom of speech? No setup fees
Get ready to upload docs and utility bill routine to them within a few days. If they sell out earlier than review, there nothing to be delivered finally.
exactly my point of view, it may work for big archives you need to access very rarely...
on my tests I just uploaded small files of only some MB and right after uploading it became 'frozen' and could not be downloaded again. instead I had to click on 'unfreeze' for it to become available 24h to be downloaded - BUT it made me wait four hours to have it unfrozen at all.
that process of unfreezing seems much like the files getting queued or something like that - I'd suppose that is more like an intentionally limit but also a very irritating one ... can't tell if the process is faster if the file already stayed for frozen for quite some time before you try to unfreeze it or something like that.
sorry to disappoint but no, I haven't tried that yet. exactly because the need to pay for removal of data is something I am not willing to deal with. to make things worse and if I got this right you would even need to pull a whole container back into the working zone, if you want to remove a single file from it causing an even bigger operation and costs.
but as I have just said, I didn't tried.
maybe I have a look into their newer intensive stuff some times, for now I am not that much interested at the given prcing point ;-)
can definitely recommend that. most likely "poor mans raid" but I like the effectivness on using the available space to a maximized flexibility. and also I can use the glusterfs to easily mount that mirrored space somewhere else e.g. my proxmox servers to directly dump VMs on it and such things.
if you do use gluster across the public internet I recommend looking into using porper authentication restriction and ssl for encryption, if you have questions regarding this feel free to ask (maybe in another thread ;-))
I'd love to do something like this - do you know of any good tutorials? I was thinking a VPN setup would probably be the best route?
still available today
Finally I just got my server provisioned on RBX4 DC.. guess I'll be using this as archiving server till I can get a deal on a server with more specs
just got mine, the disk is 5239 hours, i guess this is good right?
That's less than a year old. By Kimsufi standards, it's awesome.