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Storage service?
BasToTheMax
Member, Host Rep
Hello everyone.
I have been thinking about offering a storage service.
However, I have some questions about what you, the customer, would prefer.
So I made a poll.
Regards,
Bas
The storage poll
- Do you prefer Object Storage or a Storage vps?94 votes
- Object Storage (more monthly bandwidth)40.43%
- Storage vps59.57%
- Which raid would you prefer?94 votes
- RAID 0 (cheapest)30.85%
- RAID 522.34%
- RAID 630.85%
- RAID 10 (most expensive)15.96%
- How much monthly bandwidth per TB of storage do you need?94 votes
- 1 TB bw per TB of storage23.40%
- 2 TB bw per TB of storage25.53%
- 3 TB be per TB of storage13.83%
- 5 or more bw per TB of storage37.23%
- Would you buy a storage service from me?94 votes
- Yes13.83%
- Maybe55.32%
- Probably not9.57%
- Nope6.38%
- $714.89%
Comments
For the people who chose 5+ TB of monthly bandwidth, what's your usecase for the bandwidth?
Daily backups of their nodes
It's only outgoing bandwidth that is counted
@BasToTheMax said:
Oh ok
KVM and RAID60 would be better.
As a storage VPS, outgoing bandwidth should be larger, 1x rate obviously not enough.
I would use it for my sexy girls gallery. (Legal age / self photographing)
And LXC? I'll take a look at raid 60
Also, what storage capacity (in TB) would you like to see?
What about this, choiceable from this two option:
Storage VPS + Shared IPv4 and Subdomain
Custom Software Installer
So they can get storage service with their favorite environment.
Billied By Storage and Bandwidth
(Expensive)
Or
Managed Shared Object Storage
Billed By Storage and Bandwidth, pay-as-you-go.
(Cheaper)
RAID6 can balance cost and safety. RAID 60 would speed up I/O, however it need more disks.
Starts at 1TB, flexible scaling would be better.
Okay. What pricing would you like to see?
Rclone compatible object storage matching 1fichier pricing (less than $1.5/tb) would be interesting. Minimal bandwidth needed, would settle for distributed jbod (lose some but not all files if a disk fails), like mergerfs etc
Instead of object storage, what about (s)FTP storage?
$1.5 would indeed be interesting. However, I'm not sure if that would be profitable though, but I will do some calculations to make sure of it.
However with object storage, I could at least cache some of the most accessed data.
What about raid 6? I could lose 2 disks before losing data if I understand it correctly.
As you would already know you should not base your service on this poll which is farse. It shows the customers also want raid 0, and prefer raid 6 to raid 10. Lol
RAID: YOLO
Capacity: unlimited
Price: free
We did it last year and have 3000 clients.
You can do it too.
This is LET. People want RAID0 as it’s cheapest, and so they quite possibly get 2-3 RAID0 storage servers for the price of a normsl S3 service in terms of $/TB.
For hobbyish projects, that mentality can make sense.
Well, he has a bit of a point. Personally i've voted No anyways so what the fuck would i care what other options i select, lol
I voted for S3 because I hate servers. Well, hate having them. Having one or two is fine.
I think i've voted for storage VPS with 5TB+ of Raid10 because... well, reasons.
raid ignore
romania location
dmca ignore
pubic tracker allow
all port open
free speaks
tor exit
resident ip
dmca ignore or posted on let
No. People do not want RAID 0 -They do not know if their service is RAID 0 if not asked.
They only see price and yabs.
If they ask for price and YABS but not RAID, I got some news for you..
I smile when I see the last question of $7.
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The best part is all those people voting Maybe. It's practically save that once an actual offer emerges that isn't like immediate deadpool pricing there won't be anything Maybe...