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Would you buy this Storage LXC container?
Hi,
Would you consider the following offer?
Not oversold, basically a dedicated split into equal parts.
The only "shared" resources would be Network and CPU.
LXC
2 AMD Ryzen Cores
2GB DDR4 ECC
1TB HDD @ RAID 10
1 Gbit/s shared
IPv6 only
Not sure about traffic, maybe around 5TB
Location: Germany, Hetzner
Price: 5€ /mon
Thanks!
Comments
$2/month if stackable.
yep, it is stackable
5TB for $10/month, please.
No.
For 3-4 bucks, sure why not.
It’s OK, there was no way I was buying it anyway, I have no idea who the fuck you are.
Doesn't matter as this isn't an offer, just a survey
For 4.99€ I get a dedi with a 2TB drive and IPv4.
No Raid, Slow CPU but has IPv4 and double the Storage and Memory.
I guess depends on the use case.
If they're dedicated, why no KVM?
Don't forget to factor in the provider tag fee into your pricing.
In that case, knock yourself out, I’ll have 10TB at $200/month.
The pricing isn't appetising enough for most people who want cheap storage deals. So they would have to be buying it for some other aspect, like the CPU.
LXC will probably perform much better on an HDD array
Yea that makes sense
Also most people that want storage want it for backups... especially if this is IPv6 only. Do you really need 2cores and 2GB to run rsync?
I could understand people would want Ryzen and 2GB for transcoding media (plex or something), but then IPv6 only is very no-go for most end-users.
Storage box 1TB directly from Hetzner is 2.90€/mo. Storage Share starts at 3,90€/mo.
Will be hard to convice people to sign up for your service instead (probably).
Having cores / memory available so you can host NFS and run a backup at the same time is pretty useful. Plus if it's NFS ipv6 only isn't a big deal ( as long as your frontend has IPV6 obviously ).
Yeah. The appeal of this offering would have to be in some other value it provides, like the CPU or RAM resources. Because then the user can run whatever applications they want on the container which gives greater flexibility.
Though even with that in mind, it's a tough sell at that pricing. Maybe even a small bump down to €4 would be benificial.
Thank you for your input!
How about:
LXC
1 Core
1GB RAM
1TB HDD
1 IPv6
3,5€/mon
How about:
LXC
1 Core
1GB RAM
1TB HDD
1 IPv6
3,5€/year
No.
If it stacked (e.g. 2core/2gb ram/2tb hdd for €7/mo and etc.) then I think that would be okay. It's not some killer black friday deal or anything, but it's solid standard pricing.
I'd actually buy something like this. minio likes to take up a lot of CPU and I/O when doing uploads, and that extra bit of compute really does help.
For reference, I have a deal with Alwyzon that's similar - 1GB, 1 core (~750 GB5 score) with a 512GB disk.
Oh man, seeing the comments in here, I have been working on a secret project but storage competition seems so stiff, I have probably lost before introducing mine. The 5 per month op is offering seems near to what others are offering. It doesn't seem to me to be an unreasonable sell.
Look at JB's storage thread. Folks want near $2/TB/month pricing.
You cannot win in the race to the bottom for a simple storage vm without a lot of scale. You have to add value to your service or target a different market sector. The storage vm market in LET is probably too cutthroat unless you are colocating from the beginning.