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North America docker capable hosting + SSD + some storage
I am hosting a historical photo archive just because my brother is interested in it, all costs out of my own pocket. It's currently at Hetzner, the machine has SSDs for the database / thumbnail sized pictures (this part just crossed 15GB and grows very slowly) and uses Hetzner network storage for the download sized images (it's closing on a terabyte and growing). This is a lovely setup because the machine itself is screaming fast so browsing is instantaneous while the network storage is so slow that it serves as a natural bandwidth limiter -- and we are fine with that.
I would like a mirror in North America as well. The current lowest price I am aware of is the $25 Dacentec X3440 8GB 2X2TB for $25 + $10 for an SSD. Although perhaps I would want a second SSD to make sure everything is mirrored... but that's academic because this is just a mirror and I am not sure I want to pay $35 again for this. I am guessing that a $5 Linode would do -- but they don't really have a cheap storage solution.
Our traffic currently is two terabyte-ish a month so nothing grievous and I expect the NA mirror would be even less.
Any good ideas?
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Get a Kimsufi in BHS with a 2TB disk?
Where's the SSD in that plan?
Do you honestly need the SSD's?
I have a couple image hosting websites which handle millions of requests a day using regular spindle drives and they don't even break a sweat handling it. The database's are on the spindle drives and the websites loading in under a second, near instantaneous.
That said, why do you need to mirror the content? It sounds like you don't have a lot of traffic and mirroring the content sounds a bit extreme for a small home project.
Why not just grow with heztner and setup decent offsite backups?
On Mars, on its way to the DC. No tracking number available sorry.
It's quite far from a home project really -- it's about 85 000 historical photos, scanned and tagged by volunteers, quite loved by Hungarians. Making it more available for the North American Hungarian community would be nice -- there are about two million Hungarians in the USA + Canada together, quite significant when the country itself only has 10M. And we all know that while Hetzner hardware prices are great, their US peering is not so great.
I guess I should get a small server with just spinning rust and see how fast it is.
And yes, we have an offsite backup. Everything is rsync'd daily to a storage VPS at delimiter (it's only a terabyte, I will figure out what to do when it fills up but it was 63 USD a year for a terabyte), and to a HDD hanging off my router (very sophisticated backup solution, that one is, it's sitting on the shelf raw with a small AC/DC brick and a USB to SATA cable) and a noez.de VPS (95 cents, lol) runs a DB slave.
I guess I am not following your train of thought here, how is adding a server in North America going to make the content "more available" to those Hungarians in located in the US & Canada?
Whether the image is loaded from a server in the US or from Hetzner the difference in load time will likely be only a few milliseconds which I don't see justifying the added expense.
If you are concerned about speed then a CDN is your next stop, not another server.
That all said, Hetzner has a pretty terrible network in general and their speed lacking even inside Germany, let alone the EU or North America. Replacing them with another provider with a better network would likely make a pretty large difference, but even so a true CDN will blow the doors off pretty much anything.
I guess I am old fashioned and I believe a hundred or two ms added latency by the transatlantic connection looks like a lot to me. I was kind of hoping if I could turn the backup into a mirror that'd be nice. That's about it.
A CDN is way too expensive for this project.
True, most CDNs are, but I'd like to shill for @BunnySpeed with https://bunnycdn.com (which has very cheap pricing, cheaper than most CDNs). There's a 14-day 1TB trial and I've been using them for a while with no problems. (Might wanna uncheck some regions to reduce pricing farther.) (Also will have to upload via FTP, but it seems a other upload method is coming soon™)
So that'd be $20 to store a terabyte there and another $20 to deliver 2TB... But, a CDN!
And it has overcharge protection, that's quite vital. Perhaps when the Delimiter storage VPS comes due in November, I could switch to that one as a backup-cum-CDN. Very nice idea, thanks. Might be the best of all, indeed.
Edit: and now you put me on looking for CDNs, https://www.fdcservers.net/content-delivery-network.php look, this is just $5 per Terabyte.
Just use cloudflare with a free CDN. Setup a CDN. A or CNAME record to the server, proxy it (cloud on), and serve off your servers normally. Since CF profits via upselling + other sources you get a kickass DNS host and CDN. I say use a cname so you dont proxy the whole site, just the images./static files.