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Looking for a good storage VPS

Need a VPS to store weekly backups from my primary server.

Location: Any
IPv4: 1
Storage: 1TB HDD
Bandwidth: 2TB monthly (1Gbps)
KVM preferred
RAM: 1/2GB
Payment: Will pay for the first month (to judge the performance/reliability) and after that will pay yearly.
Budget: Currently paying about $60 yearly from one provider, so more or less around that price.

Missed out on some great BF deals.

Comments

  • Servarica Polar Bear 2TB 48$/yr, but they won't allow monthly payment though. I think you can try and refund if not satisfy. Servarica support is one of the best for me

    Thanked by 1servarica_hani
  • @matheny said:
    Servarica Polar Bear 2TB 48$/yr, but they won't allow monthly payment though. I think you can try and refund if not satisfy. Servarica support is one of the best for me

    Thanks, you know of a link to that offer/package? Can't find it on their website.

  • @Drukpa said:

    @matheny said:
    Servarica Polar Bear 2TB 48$/yr, but they won't allow monthly payment though. I think you can try and refund if not satisfy. Servarica support is one of the best for me

    Thanks, you know of a link to that offer/package? Can't find it on their website.

    If you click plans on the main page, then storage, it’ll show you all available ones.

    Thanked by 1servarica_hani
  • alphavps

    root@cybertech-BG:~# curl -sL yabs.sh | bash -s -- -4
    # ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
    #              Yet-Another-Bench-Script              #
    #                     v2021-12-28                    #
    # https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
    # ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
    
    Mon 14 Feb 2022 12:46:29 AM EST
    
    Basic System Information:
    ---------------------------------
    Processor  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630L v2 @ 2.40GHz
    CPU cores  : 1 @ 2394.228 MHz
    AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
    VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
    RAM        : 975.3 MiB
    Swap       : 1024.0 MiB
    Disk       : 510.9 GiB
    
    fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
    ---------------------------------
    Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
      ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
    Read       | 87.72 MB/s   (21.9k) | 1.13 GB/s    (17.8k)
    Write      | 87.95 MB/s   (21.9k) | 1.14 GB/s    (17.9k)
    Total      | 175.68 MB/s  (43.9k) | 2.28 GB/s    (35.7k)
               |                      |
    Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
      ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
    Read       | 2.82 GB/s     (5.5k) | 3.04 GB/s     (2.9k)
    Write      | 2.97 GB/s     (5.8k) | 3.24 GB/s     (3.1k)
    Total      | 5.79 GB/s    (11.3k) | 6.28 GB/s     (6.1k)
    
    iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
    ---------------------------------
    Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed
                    |                           |                 |
    Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 913 Mbits/sec   | 628 Mbits/sec
    Online.net      | Paris, FR (10G)           | 924 Mbits/sec   | 824 Mbits/sec
    WorldStream     | The Netherlands (10G)     | 921 Mbits/sec   | 895 Mbits/sec
    WebHorizon      | Singapore (400M)          | 350 Mbits/sec   | 499 Mbits/sec
    Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 865 Mbits/sec   | 344 Mbits/sec
    Velocity Online | Tallahassee, FL, US (10G) | 809 Mbits/sec   | 428 Mbits/sec
    Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 806 Mbits/sec   | 358 Mbits/sec
    Iveloz Telecom  | Sao Paulo, BR (2G)        | 67.3 Mbits/sec  | 161 Mbits/sec
    
    iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
    ---------------------------------
    Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed
                    |                           |                 |
    Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 526 Mbits/sec   | 368 Mbits/sec
    Online.net      | Paris, FR (10G)           | 577 Mbits/sec   | 524 Mbits/sec
    WorldStream     | The Netherlands (10G)     | 700 Mbits/sec   | 802 Mbits/sec
    WebHorizon      | Singapore (400M)          | busy            | 500 Mbits/sec
    Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 650 Mbits/sec   | 181 Mbits/sec
    Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 455 Mbits/sec   | 324 Mbits/sec
    
    Geekbench 4 Benchmark Test:
    ---------------------------------
    Test            | Value
                    |
    Single Core     | 2279
    Multi Core      | 2183
    Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/16488068
    
    
  • bulbasaurbulbasaur Member
    edited February 2022
    @cybertech said: Block Size 4k (IOPS) 64k (IOPS)
    Read 87.72 MB/s (21.9k) 1.13 GB/s (17.8k)
    Write 87.95 MB/s (21.9k) 1.14 GB/s (17.9k)
    Total 175.68 MB/s (43.9k) 2.28 GB/s (35.7k)
    Block Size 512k (IOPS) 1m (IOPS)
    ------ --- ---- ---- ----
    Read 2.82 GB/s (5.5k) 3.04 GB/s (2.9k)
    Write 2.97 GB/s (5.8k) 3.24 GB/s (3.1k)
    Total 5.79 GB/s (11.3k) 6.28 GB/s (6.1k)

    These speeds look quite high for a storage VPS, is this the level of performance we can expect @AlexBarakov?

  • @stevewatson301 said:

    @cybertech said: Block Size 4k (IOPS) 64k (IOPS)
    Read 87.72 MB/s (21.9k) 1.13 GB/s (17.8k)
    Write 87.95 MB/s (21.9k) 1.14 GB/s (17.9k)
    Total 175.68 MB/s (43.9k) 2.28 GB/s (35.7k)
    Block Size 512k (IOPS) 1m (IOPS)
    ------ --- ---- ---- ----
    Read 2.82 GB/s (5.5k) 3.04 GB/s (2.9k)
    Write 2.97 GB/s (5.8k) 3.24 GB/s (3.1k)
    Total 5.79 GB/s (11.3k) 6.28 GB/s (6.1k)

    These speeds look quite high for a storage VPS, is this the level of performance we can expect @AlexBarakov?

    It could be SSD-cached HDD server. YABS only writes to a 2G file, so the data could comfortably fit in SSD or RAM cache.

  • bulbasaurbulbasaur Member
    edited February 2022

    @matheny said: It could be SSD-cached HDD server. YABS only writes to a 2G file, so the data could comfortably fit in SSD or RAM cache.

    SSD caching on top of HDD server isn't a problem. Typically I've had a bad experience running minio on storage servers because of its high I/O requirements and some caching can definitely help.

    I was asking merely because whenever I discussed this issue with other providers, they'd say that speeds of ~100-200MB/s were expected for a storage server. So I was looking for clarification from @AlexBarakov if I can expect to reach these speeds for short periods of time, in which case I'd gladly buy one.

    Thanked by 1matheny
  • FrankZFrankZ Veteran
    edited February 2022

    @stevewatson301 said: These speeds look quite high for a storage VPS, is this the level of performance we can expect

    My AlphaVPS storage server in Sofia

    Basic System Information:
    ---------------------------------
    Processor  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2450L 0 @ 1.80GHz
    CPU cores  : 1 @ 1795.672 MHz
    AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
    VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
    RAM        : 985.4 MiB
    Swap       : 1024.0 MiB
    Disk       : 503.9 GiB
    
    fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
    ---------------------------------
    Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
      ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
    Read       | 790.00 KB/s    (197) | 15.34 MB/s     (239)
    Write      | 826.00 KB/s    (206) | 15.83 MB/s     (247)
    Total      | 1.61 MB/s      (403) | 31.17 MB/s     (486)
               |                      |
    Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
      ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
    Read       | 50.36 MB/s      (98) | 57.65 MB/s      (56)
    Write      | 53.37 MB/s     (104) | 61.76 MB/s      (60)
    Total      | 103.74 MB/s    (202) | 119.41 MB/s    (116)
    
    iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
    ---------------------------------
    Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed
                    |                           |                 |
    Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 914 Mbits/sec   | 273 Mbits/sec
    Online.net      | Paris, FR (10G)           | 920 Mbits/sec   | 401 Mbits/sec
    WorldStream     | The Netherlands (10G)     | 914 Mbits/sec   | 602 Mbits/sec
    WebHorizon      | Singapore (400M)          | 344 Mbits/sec   | 127 Mbits/sec
    Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 874 Mbits/sec   | 242 Mbits/sec
    Velocity Online | Tallahassee, FL, US (10G) | 805 Mbits/sec   | 243 Mbits/sec
    Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 810 Mbits/sec   | 290 Mbits/sec
    Iveloz Telecom  | Sao Paulo, BR (2G)        | busy            | busy
    
    iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
    ---------------------------------
    Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed
                    |                           |                 |
    Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 693 Mbits/sec   | 153 Mbits/sec
    Online.net      | Paris, FR (10G)           | 706 Mbits/sec   | 738 Mbits/sec
    WorldStream     | The Netherlands (10G)     | 710 Mbits/sec   | 714 Mbits/sec
    WebHorizon      | Singapore (400M)          | 391 Mbits/sec   | 379 Mbits/sec
    Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 663 Mbits/sec   | 679 Mbits/sec
    Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 649 Mbits/sec   | 447 Mbits/sec
    
    Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test:
    ---------------------------------
    Test            | Value
                    |
    Single Core     | 359
    Multi Core      | 373
    Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/12493056
    

    I highly recommend AlphaVPS.

  • alwyzonalwyzon Member, Host Rep

    @stevewatson301 said:
    SSD caching on top of HDD server isn't a problem. Typically I've had a bad experience running minio on storage servers because of its high I/O requirements and some caching can definitely help.

    That's exactly what the cache is there for. Moving around the head of an HDDs is slow and the cache helps to avoid that for random access of small files. And yes, that's about the performance you should be able to expect on a cached HDD setup as long as the files stay in the cache. Beyond that, it will drop to the physical limits of an HDD (which are around ~150 MB/s for sequential R/W and way below that for random R/W).

    — Michael

  • alwyzonalwyzon Member, Host Rep

    And, thanks for the mention! Here are some options:

    Storage Server 1T: 5,79 € per month for…
    2048 MB DDR4 ECC Memory
    2 vCore Xeon® Silver (2ⁿᵈ Gen)
    1 TB HDD (RAID 6/Cached)
    5 TB Monthly Bandwidth
    ✓ Located in Vienna, AT
    ✓ 1x IPv4 + /64 IPv6 included
    ✓ 1000 Mb/s Up- and Downlink

    [[ ORDER NOW ]]
    (All prices excl. VAT)

    For more information refer to the Alwyzon website, our Looking Glass and the Terms of Service.

    And of course, here is the obligatory YABS: :)

    # ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
    #              Yet-Another-Bench-Script              #
    #                     v2021-12-28                    #
    # https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
    # ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
    
    Mon Feb 14 10:11:12 UTC 2022
    
    Basic System Information:
    ---------------------------------
    Processor  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) Silver 4210 CPU @ 2.20GHz
    CPU cores  : 2 @ 2194.842 MHz
    AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
    VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
    RAM        : 1.9 GiB
    Swap       : 0.0 KiB
    Disk       : 1000.0 GiB
    
    fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
    ---------------------------------
    Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
      ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
    Read       | 50.64 MB/s   (12.6k) | 1.19 GB/s    (18.6k)
    Write      | 50.70 MB/s   (12.6k) | 1.20 GB/s    (18.7k)
    Total      | 101.34 MB/s  (25.3k) | 2.39 GB/s    (37.4k)
               |                      |                     
    Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
      ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
    Read       | 2.32 GB/s     (4.5k) | 4.04 GB/s     (3.9k)
    Write      | 2.45 GB/s     (4.7k) | 4.31 GB/s     (4.2k)
    Total      | 4.78 GB/s     (9.3k) | 8.35 GB/s     (8.1k)
    
    iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
    ---------------------------------
    Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed     
                    |                           |                 |                
    Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 1.03 Gbits/sec  | 1.03 Gbits/sec 
    Online.net      | Paris, FR (10G)           | 1.03 Gbits/sec  | 1.03 Gbits/sec 
    WorldStream     | The Netherlands (10G)     | busy            | 856 Mbits/sec  
    WebHorizon      | Singapore (400M)          | 451 Mbits/sec   | 519 Mbits/sec  
    Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 768 Mbits/sec   | 807 Mbits/sec  
    Velocity Online | Tallahassee, FL, US (10G) | 728 Mbits/sec   | 913 Mbits/sec  
    Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 647 Mbits/sec   | 755 Mbits/sec  
    Iveloz Telecom  | Sao Paulo, BR (2G)        | 589 Mbits/sec   | 619 Mbits/sec  
    
    iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
    ---------------------------------
    Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed     
                    |                           |                 |                
    Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 1.03 Gbits/sec  | 1.03 Gbits/sec 
    Online.net      | Paris, FR (10G)           | busy            | 974 Mbits/sec  
    WorldStream     | The Netherlands (10G)     | 1.03 Gbits/sec  | 978 Mbits/sec  
    WebHorizon      | Singapore (400M)          | 439 Mbits/sec   | 501 Mbits/sec  
    Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 764 Mbits/sec   | 775 Mbits/sec  
    Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 580 Mbits/sec   | 751 Mbits/sec  
    
    Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test:
    ---------------------------------
    Test            | Value                         
                    |                               
    Single Core     | 763                           
    Multi Core      | 1437                          
    Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/12771372
    
    Thanked by 1frakass
  • I can vouch for @alwyzon. Top notch services. Amazing network as well.

    Thanked by 1alwyzon
  • My recommendations:

    @servarica_hani - https://servarica.com/storage-servers/
    @hosthatch - https://hosthatch.com/storage-vps (VERY premium but need to wait for promos)
    @LiteServer - https://liteserver.nl/hdd-storage-vps/

    I have used Servarica and HostHatch for over a year now and have been very satisfied with the service. Snagged a LiteServer box this BF and it's been excellent so far.

  • AlexBarakovAlexBarakov Patron Provider, Veteran
    edited February 2022

    Thank you for the recommendations guys.

    @stevewatson301 - our storage machines are generally suitable for cold storage and services that are not very I/O intensive. I know that some people to use Minio without issues, but expectations shouldn't be very high for I/O performance on our 5EUR per TB KVMs.

    We run hardware RAID60 with BBWC and/or SSD caching on our nodes. We try to balance things out, so everyone gets an equal slice whenever is needed and we very rarely get any complaints.

    If anyone's interested - here's more information: https://alphavps.com/storage-vps.html

  • @alwyzon said:
    And, thanks for the mention! Here are some options:

    Storage Server 1T: 5,79 € per month for…
    2048 MB DDR4 ECC Memory
    2 vCore Xeon® Silver (2ⁿᵈ Gen)
    1 TB HDD (RAID 6/Cached)
    5 TB Monthly Bandwidth
    ✓ Located in Vienna, AT
    ✓ 1x IPv4 + /64 IPv6 included
    ✓ 1000 Mb/s Up- and Downlink

    [[ ORDER NOW ]]
    (All prices excl. VAT)

    For more information refer to the Alwyzon website, our Looking Glass and the Terms of Service.

    And of course, here is the obligatory YABS: :)

    # ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
    #              Yet-Another-Bench-Script              #
    #                     v2021-12-28                    #
    # https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
    # ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
    
    Mon Feb 14 10:11:12 UTC 2022
    
    Basic System Information:
    ---------------------------------
    Processor  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) Silver 4210 CPU @ 2.20GHz
    CPU cores  : 2 @ 2194.842 MHz
    AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
    VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
    RAM        : 1.9 GiB
    Swap       : 0.0 KiB
    Disk       : 1000.0 GiB
    
    fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
    ---------------------------------
    Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
      ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
    Read       | 50.64 MB/s   (12.6k) | 1.19 GB/s    (18.6k)
    Write      | 50.70 MB/s   (12.6k) | 1.20 GB/s    (18.7k)
    Total      | 101.34 MB/s  (25.3k) | 2.39 GB/s    (37.4k)
               |                      |                     
    Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
      ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
    Read       | 2.32 GB/s     (4.5k) | 4.04 GB/s     (3.9k)
    Write      | 2.45 GB/s     (4.7k) | 4.31 GB/s     (4.2k)
    Total      | 4.78 GB/s     (9.3k) | 8.35 GB/s     (8.1k)
    
    iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
    ---------------------------------
    Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed     
                    |                           |                 |                
    Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 1.03 Gbits/sec  | 1.03 Gbits/sec 
    Online.net      | Paris, FR (10G)           | 1.03 Gbits/sec  | 1.03 Gbits/sec 
    WorldStream     | The Netherlands (10G)     | busy            | 856 Mbits/sec  
    WebHorizon      | Singapore (400M)          | 451 Mbits/sec   | 519 Mbits/sec  
    Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 768 Mbits/sec   | 807 Mbits/sec  
    Velocity Online | Tallahassee, FL, US (10G) | 728 Mbits/sec   | 913 Mbits/sec  
    Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 647 Mbits/sec   | 755 Mbits/sec  
    Iveloz Telecom  | Sao Paulo, BR (2G)        | 589 Mbits/sec   | 619 Mbits/sec  
    
    iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
    ---------------------------------
    Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed     
                    |                           |                 |                
    Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 1.03 Gbits/sec  | 1.03 Gbits/sec 
    Online.net      | Paris, FR (10G)           | busy            | 974 Mbits/sec  
    WorldStream     | The Netherlands (10G)     | 1.03 Gbits/sec  | 978 Mbits/sec  
    WebHorizon      | Singapore (400M)          | 439 Mbits/sec   | 501 Mbits/sec  
    Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 764 Mbits/sec   | 775 Mbits/sec  
    Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 580 Mbits/sec   | 751 Mbits/sec  
    
    Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test:
    ---------------------------------
    Test            | Value                         
                    |                               
    Single Core     | 763                           
    Multi Core      | 1437                          
    Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/12771372
    

    Strongly recommended @alwyzon. Have a storage server with them.working like a charm

    Thanked by 1alwyzon
  • Also a couple of storage offers at https://console.vmspecialist.com/order/main/packages/order/?group_id=2 currently. Recently ordered one, though I've not got around to actually moving stuff onto it yet...

  • Do you have recommended tools for self hosted s3 object storage?

  • alwyzonalwyzon Member, Host Rep

    @umzak said:
    Do you have recommended tools for self hosted s3 object storage?

    Checkout MinIO: https://github.com/minio/minio

    That‘s exactly what you are looking for. Exposes an S3-compatible API and can be run as standalone (on a single VPS) or even as distributed cluster (over multiple VPS for redundancy).

    — Michael

  • @alwyzon said:
    And, thanks for the mention! Here are some options:

    Storage Server 1T: 5,79 € per month for…
    2048 MB DDR4 ECC Memory
    2 vCore Xeon® Silver (2ⁿᵈ Gen)
    1 TB HDD (RAID 6/Cached)
    5 TB Monthly Bandwidth
    ✓ Located in Vienna, AT
    ✓ 1x IPv4 + /64 IPv6 included
    ✓ 1000 Mb/s Up- and Downlink

    for this spec: Storage Server 1T
    if I made payment by yearly, do you have the discount?

  • alwyzonalwyzon Member, Host Rep

    @frakass said:
    for this spec: Storage Server 1T
    if I made payment by yearly, do you have the discount?

    Sure, there is a yearly option available at checkout for all plans and that automatically applies an 8% recurring discount.

  • foitinfoitin Member
    edited February 2022

    Liteserver, awesome EPYC CPU and great IO performance. Has been using their service for a few months and zero down time. Seems reliable enough.

    Interserver that has given out free credit recently offers quite decent storage VPS.
    Both IO and network performance are decent and it satisfies all your needs except for budget. Not sure about its reliability though. Only time will tell.

    Avoid H○○(it's mentioned in this discussion as well) if you care about your data.:) their storage plans have bad performance anyway.

  • Liteserver, it's very stable. ;)
    Hosthatch, I personally do not recommend. :)

  • raviravi Member
    edited February 2022

    Greencloud @NDTN is having some offer on backup vps. You can check here:
    https://greencloudvps.com/billing/store/top-provider-sale

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