KS-1 Alternatives?

FrankRuan

Hi guys, I bought an OVH KS-1 machine earlier this month(6.1$/month+6.1$ setup fee), but the performance is even worse than I thought.
I need a big storage VPS for cheap, here's the requirements

1 vCPU (usually idle, but burstable performance is needed)
1 GB RAM
1 TB Disk (HDD, SSD, HDD with SSD cached, all above is acceptable)
1 Gbps Internet Up&Down (2 TB or more bandwidth)
3~5$/month budget or 30$~40$ annually
Anywhere in the world is ok

Great connection to Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX), Montreal Internet Exchange (QIX) and OVH Oregon Datacenter. This is a nice-to-have

ManishPant

Hetzner storage box will be good for you.
Otherwise you need to wait for black friday deals

kuroit

@FrankRuan said:
Hi guys, I bought an OVH KS-1 machine earlier this month(6.1$/month+6.1$ setup fee), but the performance is even worse than I thought.
I need a big storage VPS for cheap, here's the requirements

1 vCPU (usually idle, but burstable performance is needed)
1 GB RAM
1 TB Disk (HDD, SSD, HDD with SSD cached, all above is acceptable)
1 Gbps Internet Up&Down (2 TB or more bandwidth)
3~5$/month budget or 30$~40$ annually
Anywhere in the world is ok

Great connection to Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX), Montreal Internet Exchange (QIX) and OVH Oregon Datacenter. This is a nice-to-have

STOR-2 | 1TB HDD - 1CPU - 2GB RAM

1 vCore (E-2236)
2GB DDR4 RAM
1TB Ent. HDD on RAID
3 TB Premium Transfer
120Gbps+ DDoS Protection
Location - London, UK (HydraCom)

Price: £5.00 GBP Monthly $5.00 USD Monthly for you!

Sanjue007

@servarica_hani & @NDTN has some great Storage boxes.haven't tried @hosthatch though, heard they are also great except customer service.

rm_

@FrankRuan said: the performance is even worse than I thought.

What's wrong about the performance? Should be much more than enough to saturate the 100 Mbit available, both ways, with any of rsync, sshfs, CIFS, NFS, NBD, etc - even over a VPN.

@FrankRuan said: 1 TB Disk (HDD, SSD, HDD with SSD cached, all above is acceptable)

But you got a 2 TB disk on the KS1, no?

FrankRuan

@rm_ said:

@FrankRuan said: the performance is even worse than I thought.

What's wrong about the performance? Should be much more than enough to saturate the 100 Mbit available, both ways, with any of rsync, sshfs, CIFS, NFS, NBD, etc - even over a VPN.

Here's the problem, 100Mbps is not enough.

@FrankRuan said: 1 TB Disk (HDD, SSD, HDD with SSD cached, all above is acceptable)

But you got a 2 TB disk on the KS1, no?

Indeed, that's why I have been quite annoyed these days. (aka. should I keep it or not. What if the drives are failed? OVH doesn't provide data recovery services and if it is a VPS, drive failures won't be a problem since everything is in an array.

rm_

@FrankRuan said: if it is a VPS, drive failures won't be a problem since everything is in an array.

VPS hosts do fuck up and lose data, arguably more often than the Hitachi HDDs which OVH uses fail

plumberg

@FrankRuan said:

Indeed, that's why I have been quite annoyed these days. (aka. should I keep it or not. What if the drives are failed? OVH doesn't provide data recovery services and if it is a VPS, drive failures won't be a problem since everything is in an array.

You sir, assume a lot.
Does any VPS provider give data-recovery services? Think again

Given, VPS offer better performance, but, data is users responsibility, no matter what.

VPS provider will not hesitate to tell you, oops, drives failed, your data is gone. Tough luck.

FrankRuan

@plumberg said:

@FrankRuan said:

Indeed, that's why I have been quite annoyed these days. (aka. should I keep it or not. What if the drives are failed? OVH doesn't provide data recovery services and if it is a VPS, drive failures won't be a problem since everything is in an array.

You sir, assume a lot.
Does any VPS provider give data-recovery services? Think again

Given, VPS offer better performance, but, data is users responsibility, no matter what.

VPS provider will not hesitate to tell you, oops, drives failed, your data is gone. Tough luck.

Well yes, much like hosthatch would do but I mean people like @servarica_hani puts VPSes in an array, which is safer than a single point.
And that's why I would like to choose a reputable provider which would take user's data properly.
As for data... Well this is more like a backup for a backup.

@rm_ said:

@FrankRuan said: if it is a VPS, drive failures won't be a problem since everything is in an array.

VPS hosts do fuck up and lose data, arguably more often than the Hitachi HDDs which OVH uses fail

Oh well... Fair enough 🤪 sir, I will consider about that later

ravi

check @interservermike
1TB for $3 /month with coupon code happybirthdaylala (50% recurring discount).
https://www.interserver.net/vps/storage.html

FrankRuan

@ravi said:
check @interservermike
1TB for $3 /month with coupon code happybirthdaylala (50% recurring discount).
https://www.interserver.net/vps/storage.html

Coupon not working now...

nvme

You can wait for Hosthatch sale, they usually have one during Easter.
Or may be go with Servarica or Greencloud, they have pretty good offers as well