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Mine has 36k hours.
I also have a KS-LE special edition, in theory, i can pack a lot of KS-1 in the CPU, but I am interested in storage and IP. I am running 1 desktop and 3 containers in the KS-1 also Tor with IPv6 exit, Freenet and I export the storage over iSCSI.
As I mentioned in the thread you linked to, in rare cases they can allow it. You have to ask and they will tell you whether it's possible in your case. Everyone should ask for permission to transfer before offering transfer on the forums.
Also note that if you buy Kimsufi services via the new OVHCloud interface they may have completely different rules and policies. So again, ask and see but don't treat the answer as an answer for all cases.
The trick is to tell them that you did not find it powerful enough so you would like to transfer it to a friend and upgrade to a OVH server.
I have to say what a good idea this is, but it depends on whether they believe it or not. 😆
With just an interface change, can make much of a difference, never thought about that before, learned something new every day.
The old OVH "Managerv3" had service transfers fully automated in the panel, don't need any tickets to fully transfer a service, I shifted a Kimsufi server that way back then, when Kimsufi was still within the OVH panel (yes, they split them off and now merge back).
So maybe the new one will have that too?
Kimsufi managenent was much better on the old OVH "Managerv3".
Hopefully on the new manager we can get transfers back, IPMI feature active if the server supports it and some support from OVH
Mine is around the 40k mark. And actually, I am quite satisfied, I ran NextCloud, Plex with no transcoding, and VaultWarden. KS1 served them just fine, not the powerhouse, but in this price range, what more could you ask for.
Further more, I've improved my linux skills while I am using KS1.😉
Hopefully! I really wish I had access, but unfortunately I have no need for more KS or SYS services and none of my current are on there. I had considered asking for my existing servers to be migrated to the OVH panel early but I had assumed they would just say no and didn't bother.
What's craazy is that I've been after one of these for so long.... I forgot I actually _just _got one when it was posted a week ago or so! My automatic reaction seeing a post with KS-1 was, "gotta get it".
It has been 3 days since the order. Yesterday they asked for documents which I provided in minutes after the email. No response yet on the verification.
Depending on use case, multiple small machines can be an advantage. You have less single points of failure especially if those small machines are hosted with different providers, for backups you'd have Redundant Array of Inexpensive Servers instead of redundant drives. Though having said that, my backup locations are all covered by RAID1 or similar too, everything on my 2T KS1 can be re-created, re-obtained, or just re-copied from another of my machines (if it wasn't so cheap I might have dropped it a while ago).
Took almost a week after payment to start verification. Since everything is manual, it takes time.
If you're using these tiny machines as one of many "backup nodes", then that makes sense. Personally, I use juiceFS over wasabi S3. At $6/TB/month, I let them worry about backing up data. I don't need to re-create anything and I can mount the same file system on multiple locations.
My guess is, are you just letting it idling? If you used KS1 for daily, you wouldn't forget you just got one.🤣
Yeah, when I saw this post, my immediate reaction is getting one directly too, had been seeking it for so long.
I actually immediately set it up as a backup, using minio, and used duplicati on another VPS to back up to it, and it all worked right off the bat... I forgot! I checked and it's doing exactly what I set it up to do. So, that's good.
Interesting. Nice that it supports LZ4 and encryption at rest.
Have you been using JuiceFS for a while? Does it work well?
Edit: does it work well in RAM constrained environments?
I'm a bit more paranoid, possibly overly at times, with backups, and don't trust the same provider to backup the data I send over. I'll happily trust a single host with availability (dealing with failure cases through RAID and other infrastructure) but backups (assuming that storage area isn't the backup of something else) go to an entirely different place.
I use it to store documents, photos and stream videos from plex. Works well for me for about a year so far now. It's implemented as a fuse driver so I suppose it takes about the same RAM as other fuse-based file systems. I have a vps with 8GB ram and it runs well on that.
I was using S3QL prior to this but that thing was buggy. I still take periodic backups though. Once a month I just rsync everything into a drive just in case their data center goes up in flames, but this is far easier/cheaper than managing files across raid setup on multiple hosts.
KS1 Roulette:
RBX4
GRA1
RBX5
GRA1
all 2TB
Fuck KS
Fuck Ovh
SING IT
Is Kimsufi still the most affordable dedicated server option these days?
What about dedicated servers with an SSD?
Edit: I noticed https://www.serverroom.net/dedicated/value/#plans - are they good? Their largest SSD is 64GB which is too small for my needs unfortunately.
Yes, OneProvider/Online has some with SSD for around 10€ but given they where about 50%+ cheaper, its expensive.
More like 7€ for Avotons with 128GB SSD at OneProvider, at the moment.
Fuck OVH
SING IT
Almost tempted to jump on it as my KS-1 is still 500GB with a 77k+ hours disk and due to expire in under 2 months, but I'm still wondering if I can just transition off it entirely...
No.