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So is it 1 TB for 4 dollars a year or a month? Or you guys are talking about different offers? If it is per month, a Kimsufi is doing better.
How is $4 a month/TB worse than Kimsufi? The first year of iDrive is $4 for 1 TB, and after that, it goes up to $40 a year. The cheapest Kimsufi server is $5.99 a month with 1 TB of hard drive space, without any redundancy. iDrive e2, on the other hand, advertises 3x data replication, whereas with Kimsufi, your data is stored solely on that one drive (not including the OS).
That would be too bad and not wise.
This sounds suspicious
Why? too cheap or what?
iDrive have always done the same: first year is very cheap, then price increases in second and third year (even for their backup solution, not just e2).
I stopped using iDrive backup for that reason: first year was $8, second year was $20, third year was $80. Moving the files to another provider is not possible, and upload speed is constrained on purpose.
At least with iDrive e2, it's S3 compatible, so easy to move the files to another provider (or create a new account for the promotional price).
Wait. So does the price stick after the first year?
Not really, I haven't heard in a long time of one having a 1 TB disk, mine has 2TB.
Also it can do way more than just storing data, I personally run 2 containers in it because of the 4 GB RAM. Yes, the CPU sucks, but there is unlimited traffic of many TB included.
If, indeed, you get one year for 4 dollars and don't have to pay 40 for the next, it is a great offer for a year.
For SSD it seems to, for the $4/TB/year for HDD it does not (renews at $40)
No, typical iDrive strategy. Cheap first year, and then it goes up.
At least, with S3-compatible storage, it's easy to move around between providers.
these prices are ridiculous. What can we expect after 1 year? do they expect us bottom feeders to be too lazy to switch?
I wouldn't say $40 a year for 1TB storage is ridiculous. Compared to other S3 providers, quite competitive.
I can upload files quickly too, as long as Frankfurt is up. The issue is that Frankfurt returns 503 errors for several minutes every hour or so.
No other region has this poor uptime for this long. San Jose has started to have issues as well this week.
You can see my latency results live with:
Usually you'll see totally acceptable latency for Frankfurt... and sometimes you'll see like 60 seconds. =/
New reply from IDrive Support Team:
IDrive e2 SSD Storage uses SSD storage for optimal performance [SSD gives excellent throughput in uploads and downloads]. Store your data in SSD regions to ensure faster data read/write speeds and optimize overall storage performance.I've been using it almost a year. It is pretty great for the price. Note that some nodes are way faster than others. I use virginia and it is really fast.
I intend to cancel before renewal comes up, but I just got an email offering the same deal I originally paid.
It was clearly stated it would be $40 for the first year then $400 after that (or something along those lines).
Since I use it as a 4th node in my backups I don't care about nuking it and starting a new account for that price.
$40 again for 10TB storage?
yes, exact prices as when I signed up, but it was worded towards new clients (but sent to me as an existing one).
It looks like there's different servers endpoints in each location, which could explain the very different reliability and speed experiences we're seeing. e.g.
*.fra.idrivee2-1.comthrough*.fra.idrivee2-50.commight be going down at different times and maybe have very different traffic loads.Yeah, the speeds are all over the place. Sometimes a further away region ends up having much better actual latency. (I'm measuring "actual latency" as the time to upload/download an object, instead of just the time for a ICMP reply.)
Even the $0.004/GB per month pricing is still the lowest in the industry for managed S3 as far as I know.
Actual chat log with IDrive E2 support.
I still plan on continuing to use them for some of my company's use-cases that don't require any reliability, but disappointing we can't use them for any of our applications that require high availability.
So how about backblaze b2?
just some links, the backup software is usable:
personal - https://www.idrive.com/idrive/signup/el/internal90
e2 - https://app.idrivee2.com/signup-internal90
reseller - https://app.idrivee2.com/signup-reseller
Yep, that's what we're doing already. We load balance across B2 based on latency.
I start to get regular upload issues on my mastodon instance on idrive e2 frankfurt. My uploads could not be processed randomly, and it happens for hours, then they suddenly start to work. Also by this time, remote assets are not downloaded either.
I'm thinking of switching to another region, any suggestions? How's France ? Or did you switch to another provider ?
Just saw UpdraftPlus (S3) is supported by iDrive. This is awesome news @bikegremlin @vyas11 (in case you do application/wp level backups, too).
https://www.idrive.com/object-storage-e2/updraftplus-wordpress
Works fine now?
@vitobotta
Ireland, Virginia, Montreal, Los Angeles, Madrid, Chicago, Paris, Oregon, and Miami are okay.
Frankfurt is the worst.
When I try to upload asset, or even clean-up, I regularly get
and my Access key cannot even navigate through other desktop clients, like I'm locked out, and even idrive e2 overview webui is laggy (it tries to fetch total size and number of objects). So I'm assuming the Frankfurt datacenter is the culprit as you mentioned.
When the outage happens, are the symptoms same for you guys as well? @manouchehri @EthanZou
Currently it's a bit better, but it gets worse on night times (of Germany, to be precise).
If so, I'll try to move my bucket to France or Ireland.
I told myself "well f**k it" and moved my bucket from Frankfurt, Germany to Paris, France. I simply ran
rclone copy de:/bucket/ fr:/bucket/(but I downloaded to local also just in case). It's instantly faster, more responsive and so far random uploads are all working nicely. Hope it keeps like that.Oh come on! This is Paris bucket, and none of my file transfers on Mastodon or over Cyberduck work, and it's because:
Their public URL from their URL doesn't work neither:
I'm veeeery close to switching to another provider.
Signed up last night and can't create buckets, saying access key id is invalid. The endpoint tls has wrong certificate, so there's multiple fuckups. I wish I just did the trial instead of outright paying, but I've never experienced out of box failure this bad before.
But I think I'll try another region, just for a test, since Support hasn't gotten back to me in 24 hours.
Given recent failures by providers, I'm just going to move more and more things back under my hardware and control.