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Low-endian storage VM/dedicated
I am curious (but I will buy, if cost-performance/low-endian reputation are all good) about possible prices for this type of setup:
- little RAM (512Mb or below will suffice - just enough to run CentOS 6.x)
- low-end CPU (effective 0.5GHz would suffice)
- reliable network connection with narrow throughput (such as 5Mbps) and with unmetered traffic or at least 150-200Gb of monthly traffic
- much storage (starting from 500Gb
Mband above); no RAID is mandatory
Price is of secondary importance. Cost/performance is of the first. Location isn't too important.
Note: from well-known storage/backup service I already use, for example, S3 AWS (combination of "usual" and Glacier), BQBackup plan and a VPS from Backupsy.
I would like to know of possible alternatives. That doesn't mean I will abandon something already listed above (in fact, I have 7 more backup locations, mostly rented space at private servers or co-located low-end boxes). There can't be too many backup locations, you see.
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So... powerpc works? I've got a couple yellow dog linux boxes available.
Any Linux would do where I can set up rsync/use ssh to connect to. Could you post specs/price?
We curently have storage vps in Los Angeles.
That supposed to GB not Mb?
Correct. Gbs.
Gb = gigabit
You just completely missed the smartass. Low-endian?
Well I laughed
So what price per GB do you want to achieve in the end? Also, you said the lower limit is 500GB, what's the upper limit?
I've got a Fusioned backup VPS, it has 200GB space running Ubuntu 12.04, 512MB RAM. Works perfect with Duplicity and Rsync. Message a reputable provider with these specs, compare offers and try a few out.
And, at home I have a second backup VM running which does a nightly sync with this backup server.
BuyVM has several storage plans that would fit your needs quite well.
So the 750 Gb HDD I use at the moment is actually 8 times smaller than I and OS assume?
I do not think that many providers could match the prices of AWS S3 Glacier storage. I'll wait for a while, looking for more plan mentions, prior to answering this question.
No upper limit regarding disk space. I can set (an arbitrary enough) price high limit: I won't pay for the entire plan more than $25/mo.
yes, since I post it on LET, low-endians are those I ask, primarily.
Gb is gigabit. GB is gigabyte. Should be clear which, otherwise it's really confusing. If you really do have a 750 gigabit HDD, and you assume it is 750 gigabytes, then yes it's obviously eight times smaller than you assume...
I wouldn't run any Linux in less than 64 MB of RAM, but each to his own.
So, Big-Endians are out of the question then?
I think he's not getting the end I an stuff
Endian*
A bit of help then...
I doubt he meant little endian vs big endian with his request. He rather meant Low-endish (i.e. cheap).
@Master_Bo the question still remains - what kind of storage are you looking for (upper limit) and at what price per gigabyte? I could probably offer something competitive for bigger storage (a small dedi with 1x or 2x 3TB HDDs).
whoosh...
Yessir! No problem using modern correct abbreviations. When we started to use computers (when 20 megabyte disk was a huge storage quite enough for entire scientific institution), we used MBit/etc to specify bits and Mb when referring to bytes.
Those rarely condescend to offer anything low-end, you see.
Note: words "cheap" and "inexpensive" aren't synonyms to me when talking of quality.
Inexpensive. "Cheap" assumes the quality may suffer in favor of price.
At the moment my archives take circa 200Gb (thus 500GB as a minimal space - allow twice the space for processing purposes), and it grows by approx. 2-4GB every month. So 500-750GB is more than enough for several years to come.
I pay 8.5 EUR/mo for an acceptable low-end server with 500GB non-RAID space, this is average price/space ratio to me.
Well, for 500GB you could get a backupsy VPS. Not a dedi, but still... close.
Or hope that OVH would some day lift the EU-only restriction for the new KS2G.
I am already using Backupsy VPS as part of "backup network".
I don't trust OVH, that excludes them from the list.
I don't trust them either
I don't trust any other provider too, including myself. So backups must always be encrypted before uploading anywhere 
And of course the encryption keys must not be uploaded.
And hands must be washed before a meal. Yes. I just don't trust the provider to order anything from them, that's all. All backup data I generate/store are always encrypted themselves.
Sure, you can protect from yourself snooping around your own files...
BTW, what time is in Bapha now ? Or the heat doesnt let you sleep :P
Uncle rds100 probably spend most his time for me
@Maounique i'm in Pamporovo at the moment, it's a mountain resort
And, there, obviously, it is another time zone :P or you are one of those crazy mountaineers that go on in trips lasting more than 24 hours traveling in the night too so at a break where you have 3g signal on a mountain top, you browse LET and post something at 6 AM :P
I happen to know one very well
@Maounique i had problems getting reliable 3G signal here, but there was an ehternet cable sticking from the wall in the house where i am at the moment ;-)