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What do I need to build to get you to move your BIG VPS Storage needs to Oplink.net?
I want to build a VPS node to give super high BIG ssd storage, bigger than anyone here is offering. What would it take for you to switch?
My starting point:
2vcores (amd 7950x? or other?)
4g Ram
4-5TB SSD storage Raid10
$9.95/mo
Notes:
1. I am also not going to touch HDD, I would rather just use more ssd drives. HDD is too slow
2. We currently are only in Houston, TX USA. I know location will come up as a suggestion. (maybe in time down the road that will change)
3. I am not going to go any smaller on cores/memory. Anything smaller is a useless VPS plan to us.
Give me your thoughts/ideas on the plan/specs itself. Does it need to be an AMD 7950x CPU vcores or would you not care what CPU I use since this is storage based? Is 4-5TB high enough of a starting point for a Big Storage VPS? How much data transfer per month? etc.
Thanks
Ryan
Comments
I would suggest that if you are going to be providing 5TB of storage you should allow 4-5x that (20-25TB) in data transfer per month. At least for it to be useful I mean. That's my two cents anyway.
Aint you single homed?
I guess it all depends on what you use it for, but my personal storage vps's are used for backup, archiving and just simple storage so performance is a non issue for me. CPU is totally irrelevant and 1G of ram is enough.
I do not care if its HDD or SSD, as long as it's raid.
I'd rather take unlimited 100Mb/s than 1Gb/s with a low limit. Not that I usually hit any kind of limit, but it just feels better to know that it is unlimited and most of the time transfers to/from storage does not need to go fast anyway.
Keep in mind that these are my personal preferences, others will most likely differ a lot.
And just to confirm, location does matter. Nothing you do would make me even look at another storage server in the US, that market is totally saturated and I already have several storage vps's there that I do not use.
I agree with @FrankCastle
but I prefer 5x or more for bandwidth.
high performance not really needed for storage VPS except for something that requires high performance such as encoding and others. But for my own use, I don't need high performance. 1 core and 1 or 2 GB RAM should be enough.
Something like Xeon is actually pretty good. 7950x is certainly good, but not necessary. For reference, I have a big VDS program at crunchbits and I have 3TB of SSD space and a lot of hardware, but they use an Xeon 6150 which is perfectly adequate.
If you put out something like that I think I'd be very interested as I'd try to run a minio or backup server or something like that on it.
The only question is, is this your largest scale program? Are you considering a larger scale program?
For a server of this size I have to agree with one of the other guys and hope that you will be able to give an ample amount of traffic. Maybe 1G/s for 50TB or 100TB, if it's possible to be more generous that would be perfect.
Just in terms of current specs, yes, I would say I'm interested in getting one, and if you guys do put it on sale, please kick me in the pants.
I think the CPU should be increased to 4 because occasionally it is necessary to process data. Of course, the actual usage time may be limited, but with such sudden performance, I will not hesitate to choose it
I am trying to build out a User Generated Video On Demand Cache Network in various providers which will cache recently accessed content from a cloud S3 Storage and distribute it to viewers who need it.
For this I need a VPS that No One Else is currently providing, and its exactly what you are suggesting.
General Specs:
4 vCores
8GB RAM
3TB or more SSD but preferably NVME - RAID 10
150TB Bandwidth on a 10G Burstable Port - Most Important!
Your current Pro and Premium VPS Plans are almost perfect in matching what you want to do, but it is missing the Storage and the Bandwidth Cap!
If you can do what I am asking, I will gladly pay around $40 USD/M for something like this!
I'm open for suggestions, so message me if you'd like to explore this with me.
$19.95/mo> @inthecloudblog said:
We are muli-homed to Lumen & Cogent. Cogent is failover only if lumen goes off via routing priority settings. Routes are just better with Lumen
for lowend storage cheapos (media sharing/torrent/porn/cryptocurrency etc.) you should think about to route these VM's straight over cogent. they will abuse the shit out of your offers if possible. they want 1Gbps Unmetered 24/7 unshared with cn2 route for 7$ if possible
Wouldn't putting in a certain TB bandwidth cap, hinder such abuse?
I know that this ain’t what you asked for but how about dedicated cpu as another point of sale instead of storage?
Honestly you’ve already decided on speedy desktop CPU’s, SSD’d and a bunch of RAM. It’s not remotely important to me, for a server used for backups
There’s certainly a market for it, but it seems more like a fast compute with extra storage
I just want stability and a cheap price. Uptime is important. Data loss is bas but honestly fine as I’ll just rebuild from another backup, no problem
2 vcores
4g Ram
2TB SSD storage Raid10
1Gbps Unmetered
~$59/year~
Simple schema:
2c/2g/4TB/100TB@1Gbps -- 3.99€/m
4c/4g/8TB/200TB@1Gbps -- 7.99€/m
<...>
32c/256g/1PB/Unmetered@10Gbps -- 99.99€/m
With that you will have a very small chance to stand out in over-saturated storage vps market. A very small chance.
This might be interesting for me. We keep 'hot' (recent) backups on a self-managed storage server and then archive a weekly backup to glacier in S3. Server/disk performance isn't critical (although I do agree that sometimes you do need to do some processing or even compression/decompression); uptime and network routes are key though.
Plans look good. Even tho you are probably "too far" for my backup needs.. at least in my case ideal storage VPS would have 20-30GB of SSD disk for OS + beefy SATA (or whatever it is). In that case I can install OS and have ZFS pool on beefy disk.
Best to move to a VDS or ded server at that point if you need ded cpu
I see this being heavily abused by seedboxes and the like, especially with unmetered traffic.
Would be interested personally but would need 4vcpu ~33% average load. Maybe like 12.50-15$/m?
My only big SSD server that I actually need the SSD capacity is primarily for the Private Seafile instance.
It's the GreenCloudVPS 9999 plan in Chicago, with 99GB SSD capacity, costing $99 every three years.
If you sell the same capacity for cheaper, with at least 2GB RAM and 1500GB monthly transfer, I can consider a move.
Double the Cores and double the Ram and 4TB SSD Raid 10, and a reasonable price just above your starting price and I'll move over to you from our various other hosts.
how soon before something like this might be available. top option I would pickup in a heartbeat and migrate one of my other services to it
If it's true, I will definitely buy it.
This offer with a location in Europe I take without question.
What would be the price with annual payment just out of curiosity?
Even though this offer will obviously not be available in Europe.
4 vcores
8g Ram
10TB SSD storage Raid10
1Gbps Unmetered
~$19.95/mo~
Instant buy for me.
2 vcores
2tb
High BW , at least 10tb to unmetered
USD$5
I'm amazed that SSD storage VPS is this affordable nowadays.
5% off if paid annual whatever the monthly price is
Hardware costs in general came down.
I will update you guys once its ready to order. All this missing parts we didn't have are on the way. Mostly a bunch of 8TB SSDs.
Thanks for all the feedback. Since Big VPS Storage is the key here, I decided use an E5.
So for the first storage node I am going with the trusted Intel E5-2699 v4.
Still deciding what do with bandwidth/data. Its going to be limited to avoid abusers/seeders. I would say our target client is someone who needs a great vps backup server on a good network in the USA.
Here is what I am at. Let me know what you think of the BW data. I think 10Gbps burst is a must. When someone needs to reload a backup, they don't want to wait for 1Gbps speeds.
Standard Stash
2 vcores (E5-2699 v4)
4g Ram
5TB Pure SSD storage Raid10
10Gbps shared port + 100TB data, when you hit limit throttle to 200/Mbps
$9.95/mo + $4.95/setup fee (5% off if paid annual + no setup)
Pro Stash
4 vcores (E5-2699 v4)
8g Ram
10TB Pure SSD storage Raid10
10Gbps shared port + 200TB data, when you hit limit auto throttle to 200/Mbps
$19.95/mo + $4.95/setup fee (5% off if paid annual + no setup)
*Data limit is total in+out.
Thanks again for the feedback, support and orders!
-Ryan
Amazing offer.
Can't wait to see similar offer in Europe...
I don't even understand how you can make margins on this.
The time it takes to amortize the investment seems incredibly long to me
8TB SSD should cost at least $300 - $350
I require EXTRA BIG ASS FRIES
I hope someone gets the joke or it sounds quite stupid.