What sort of storage VPS offers would be exciting?

jbiloh

Couple questions:

Are people interested in large storage VPS offers?

1. If so, what specs are important/most desirable?
2. Does OpenVZ/KVM matter to you?
3. SSD or HDD? Does it matter for the purpose of storage VPS?
4. How much storage and at what price?
5. What O/S would you utilize?
6. What would you utilize the storage space for?

Once I know what the community would be most interested in seeing I am going to go hunting for those types of offers.

Thanks for sharing your opinions.

Nekki

1. Fuckoff massive disks. 2TB+ or GTFO.
2. KVM. OVZ is for sex offenders.
3. No shits given, whatever’s cheapest.
4. 2TB+. Near $2/TB.
5. Debian
6. Backups, possibly a library for a remote media server.

Advin

I wonder if anyone would be interested in ~$2/TB but non-redundant storage. Like, each drive would be separated from each other and a couple of VM's would be placed on each one. iirc this is what some seedbox providers like Whatbox do

1. If so, what specs are important/most desirable?
   Maybe 2 vCores along with ~4GB of memory and a couple TB of HDD
2. Does OpenVZ/KVM matter to you?
   KVM all the way
3. SSD or HDD? Does it matter for the purpose of storage VPS?
   HDD, having an SSD disk as the OS disk (like Servarica) would be nice but not necessary
4. How much storage and at what price?
   Like 5TB for $15/month
5. What O/S would you utilize?
   Ubuntu
6. What would you utilize the storage space for?
   Plex, maybe a few backups, general SMB storage

Shot2

@jbiloh said:
1. If so, what specs are important/most desirable?

Decent i/o and clever bandwidth (e.g. twice-the-size-of-the-storage-TB at Gbps, then some more at 10Mbps). No need for insane [number of] CPU[s] or RAM, it must be a storage box, not a transcode/seed box. F*ck noisy/greedy neighbors. Even better if it's IPv6-only (saves some bucks for the admin, keeps nasty pirates at bay)

2. Does OpenVZ/KVM matter to you?

KVM or similar full-fledged virt, no OVZ shite.

3. SSD or HDD? Does it matter for the purpose of storage VPS?

HDD for storage + some extra SSD space (10GiB?) for OS.

4. How much storage and at what price?

$2/TB

5. What O/S would you utilize?

Debian thx

6. What would you utilize the storage space for?

Backup/disaster recovery, poor man's file/S3 server, transient storage needs

Once I know what the community would be most interested in seeing I am going to go hunting for those types of offers.

Thanks for sharing your opinions.

darkimmortal

A key selling point for me would be a provider that presents multiple disks independently to the VM, without redundancy
So I can have a RAID 1 for the OS, and mergerfs for the actual storage partition
Cheaper and easier for the provider, and better for the customer

MannDude

KVM virtualization, ability to install OS via ISO so I can easily setup LUKS encryption.

paijrut

As long as in asia, singapore or jakarta

umzak

1gb ram, Kvm, hdd, 512gb, $25-$30/year, for daily site backup

brejski

1. For storage i don't care about CPU. 1GB RAM is enough.
2. KVM. I don't trust container shit, admin always can always take a look inside.
3. HDD
4. I'd use at least 6TB for maybe... 20$, lower price = better price. I like the solution of Servarica. 1 BilohBuck per year will be also OK.
5. OS - doesn't matter, I'm using docker.
6. Backups vía rsync (Linux) and SMB (Window$)

AXYZE

1. SSD + HDD combo
2. OpenVZ7 sucks, too old kernel. LXC/KVM is preferred. KVM is the best because its free & can run everything, including Windows.
3. 8-15GB SSD for OS and basic apps. HDD for data. Providers please, add small SSD, it greatly improves performance of whole node as system/apps won't rap* spinning rust. If you are trying to cut costs then make this SSD as extra option.
4. Competitive.
5. Ubuntu. Switched from CentOS7, no regrets.
6. P0rn... I mean backups, yea ordinary backups.

@brejski said:
KVM. I don't trust container shit, admin always can always take a look inside.

They can do the same thing in KVM, it doesn't matter. Even if you encrypt, hypervisor can just take a snapshot and read key from the memory. You wont even notice it.

@Advin said:
HDD, having an SSD disk as the OS disk (like Servarica) would be nice but not necessary

I would say Servarica has best LET storage VPSes. His offer is very good, services are stable and only thing missing is more locations. I'm missing something like this (small SSD + big HDD + unmetered 100Mbps) in Europe at the same price.

asterisk14

1 TB free, unlimited up and download, don't scare about specs. Do you think you could do it?

lc475

1. Storage size is most important. 1 to 2 vCPU and 1 to 2 GB RAM should be enough.
2. Never consider OpenVZ.
3. HDD, may be SSD for disk cache.
4. Around $2.5 per TB with large size option such as 10TB.
5. Let users to choose their favorite.
6. Remote backup or data archive.

ColonelPanic

1. Up to date images - just cancelled a storage vps right after buying because Ubuntu 16 was the most up to date image they had.
2. Don't care about OpenVZ/KVM
3. Happy with HDD, as long as the drives aren't ancient and there's a backup system in place
4. 500Gb-2Tb depending on price
5. Ubuntu/owncloud
6. Collaboration/filesharing/backup of recording project.

Right now, who has the best bank per buck for $5 or less that can manage #1 and #4?

Ian_Dot_Tech

@umzak said:
1gb ram, Kvm, hdd, 512gb, $25-$30/year, for daily site backup

You mean a plan like this
https://billing.leveloneservers.com/cart.php?a=add&pid=88
(been an offer we have had for a while)

duckeeyuck

@jbiloh said: If so, what specs are important/most desirable?

big booty, big tits on my vps is what i want
I don't use much cpu but really fast cpus for lower latency, on storage nodes this is great because most people dont use much of it

1. ssd cold storage, nvme is too overkill when you dont need high read speeds but do want low latency
2. YES
3. Not really
4. 200gb-2tb, depends what site im raping
5. debian/freebsd
6. crawled/scraped data

bruh21

@Ian_Dot_Tech said:

@umzak said:
1gb ram, Kvm, hdd, 512gb, $25-$30/year, for daily site backup

You mean a plan like this
https://billing.leveloneservers.com/cart.php?a=add&pid=88
(been an offer we have had for a while)

What happens after 1TB BW? Are you suspended, or are you throttled?

duckeeyuck

@brejski said: KVM. I don't trust container shit, admin always can always take a look inside.

paranoia goes hand in hand with selfishness as one thinks everything is about them
or thinks a provider cares for what you do personally

Chronic

Some sort of hard drive colocation like zfs.rent does would be interesting.

risharde

The problem with this is we all know storage is going to fail, storage like this will probably Deadpool the provider AND complaints will be made when storage fails and data loss occurs.

yoursunny

$18/year cheap cheap.
1TB HDD, advertised as RAID 10 but actually RAID 0.
Involucration on a random date between 6 and 11 months.
The ensued drama will be exciting.

risharde

@yoursunny said:
$18/year cheap cheap.
1TB HDD, advertised as RAID 10 but actually RAID 0.
Involucration on a random date between 6 and 11 months.
The ensued drama will be exciting.

Perfect summary

BlaZe

Offers/hosts which accept BilohBucks.

Void

@yoursunny said:
$18/year cheap cheap.
1TB HDD, advertised as RAID 10 but actually RAID 0.
Involucration on a random date between 6 and 11 months.
The ensued drama will be exciting.

“You probably don’t recognize because of the red dp “

cristsau

1TB
KVM
hdd
$2/TB.
Debian
Backups

bulbasaur

@BlaZe said:
Offers/hosts which accept BilohBucks.

Exactly my thoughts, this has to be JB collecting feedback on behalf of RN. They could directly collect this information too, but then everyone would start posting comments and expecting RN to offer storage at the price proposed by folks.

rogerwilco

@stevewatson301 said:

@BlaZe said:
Offers/hosts which accept BilohBucks.

Exactly my thoughts, this has to be JB collecting feedback on behalf of RN. They could directly collect this information too, but then everyone would start posting comments and expecting RN to offer storage at the price proposed by folks.

Comment first to receive double bandwidth+Comment second to receive double storage=Double the number of overall replies in the offer threads!

"RackNerd’s offers are usually highly commented by community members"

TimboJones

@stevewatson301 said:

@BlaZe said:
Offers/hosts which accept BilohBucks.

Exactly my thoughts, this has to be JB collecting feedback on behalf of RN. They could directly collect this information too, but then everyone would start posting comments and expecting RN to offer storage at the price proposed by folks.

I don't see RN doing lowest cost storage. They're into volume of CC's abundant and ready to go old Intel's.

BlaZe

@TimboJones said:

@stevewatson301 said:

@BlaZe said:
Offers/hosts which accept BilohBucks.

Exactly my thoughts, this has to be JB collecting feedback on behalf of RN. They could directly collect this information too, but then everyone would start posting comments and expecting RN to offer storage at the price proposed by folks.

I don't see RN doing lowest cost storage. They're into volume of CC's abundant and ready to go old Intel's.

One man's shit, is another man's food.

TimboJones

@BlaZe said:
One man's shit, is another man's food.

Note to self, never eat at @BlaZe's.

guowq

Can it be better than greencloud? 4c6GB2T HDD with cache. Just 90＄/3years

cybertech

$1/TB would be exciting.