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vps for storage 2TB or 5TB
Hi everyone,
I'm looking to buy a VPS with large HDD storage, ideally:
Storage: 2TB or 5TB HDD or moe (single or multiple disks are fine)
Network: 1Gbps port preferred, shared is OK
Bandwidth: 10TB+ per month (more is better, unmetered welcome)
Location: Preferably Europe
Budget: $50 /year
thanks
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@host_c
the 5tb promo server from host-c is great, maybe at next black friday they'll restock it
Price?
For your budget of $50, i could offer you our custom 2TB IPv6 only VPS...
Test IP: 2604:4300:a:19e::2
KVM virtualization
1vCPU
1GB RAM
1 IPv6
No IPv4
2TB HDD
10TB bandwidth
1Gbps
Virtualizor panel
$50.95/year
Add $15/year to get the same deal with IPv4
DM me for custom order link if interested.
You can also explore our other 1TB storage and 5TB storage deals on our sales thread
Hi,
we are currently running an event for LET users, maybe its interesting for you:
France location:
https://login.layer7.net/index.php?rp=/store/cloud-server-france-par1/let-special-local-storage-server-5-tb-france
German location:
https://login.layer7.net/index.php?rp=/store/cloud-server-germany-fra1/let-special-local-storage-server-5-tb-germany
How long will this promo last?
any looking glass?
is main disk NVMe?
Hi,
we allocated for it around 500 TB of space. So thats around 100 Accounts, except people will opt in for the 10 TB for 10 EUR variant, then its less.
So it will go as long as there is space for it.
no. Those hostmachines are optimized for storage. Aside of a caching device, there are just good old rotating SAS disks inside.
If you want/need NVMe space, we also run:
https://login.layer7.net/index.php?rp=/store/bare-metal-server-intel-xeon-v3v4-location-par1/hp-moonshot-m710x-l-intel-xeon-e3-1565l-32-gb-ram-ddr4-ecc-240-gb-nvme-1g-uplink
which is a physical dedicated server that can be upgraded to up to 12 TB NVMe space
LET users will pay no setup and 24.90 EUR / month for the smallest config.
And sad to say in all that time we didnt manage to bring a looking glas online.
On https://layer7.net you can get free test servers for both locations and just check it yourself.
@layer7 i meant if primary disk 120GB is NVMe
also any looking glass
and is the storage disk limited to 200 IOPS?
Hi,
yes, no worry, i understood it correctly. The primary disk is NOT NVMe.
And we really dont have any looking glass, not a single tiny little fraction of a bit, sorry ;-;
And no, the storage disk is not limited to 200 IOPS.
The primary disk is limited to 500 IOPS and 50 MB/s. The secondary disk is limited to 500 IOPS and 80 MB/s.
How do I choose the 10T version? I only see 5T
Hi,
added now:
Germany:
https://login.layer7.net/index.php?rp=/store/cloud-server-germany-fra1/let-special-local-storage-server-10-tb-germany
France:
https://login.layer7.net/index.php?rp=/store/cloud-server-france-par1/let-special-local-storage-server-10-tb-france
@layer7
Im confused about the ui on normal products
so when I select network ipv6 /48 do I also need to put the total number of ipv6 addresses to 1?
Is there a limit per customer?
Hi,
the options co-exist.
You can have single IPv6 Addresses ( Total number of IPv6 addresses )
AND/OR
you can have in addition to that, (also) a /64 or /48 network.
So in general you could have up to 16 IPv6 addresses and a /48 network.
The point here is that some people just want to have a IPv6 address or maybe 2 or 3 but not a whole network.
The 1st single IPv6 address will be automatically configured. Everything else must be configured manually.
Just 48€/Year
@layer7
While I'm always glad for more storage, what would the purpose of the slower and smaller "primary storage" be?
The usual ways these are configured is for OS disks but it being slower kinda defeats the point.
@ehab !!
What a hidden gem from a very decent provider. Highly recommended!
12.5€/3 Month or 45€/Year
Hi,
in general i fully agree with you. The following factors lead us to this decision:
This are local storage servers ( not the usual cluster / network storage stuff we use ). So we optimized them for storage capacity. As a result, aside of a faster caching device, there is simply no other SSD / NVMe device existing that could hold the primary disk ( or we would have to add it and sacrifice storage ) -- while we wanted to maximize the storage so more people can make use of this event.
We are talking here about 2x CPU, 8 GB RAM storage server. You will not install something resource eating there OS wise like windows or a heavy GUI or what ever. ( At least i would not suggest it ). So there is actually no real-life need for a fast disk. All what will be there are daemons that will provide data from the storage disk and write some logging. You simply dont need something that is faster than 500 IOPS and 50 MB/s for this. -- Actually it could be a lot weaker and would still not hurt performance.
We have been seeing customers who come up with brilliant idea's like using the faster primary disk to pimp um their RAM capacity through swap. Not only that this is in general just a bad idea to do it, it also hurts significantly the IO capacity of the IO backend. And exactly this we all dont want. So we choose IO limits that will make sure that if someone will use it as swap, he will definitely not like it.
We expect the real workload to be on the secondary ( data ) disk. So we prefer giving more juice there to have more fun for the user in a real life szenario.
( And maybe most important ) The pricing of 1 EUR per TB incl. server and quiet a lot of traffic and good port speed, hosted in west europe with IPv4/IPv6 is anyway just a nightmare economically for the provider. You dont make money there with this. The only ( realistic ) question is how much you loose with it. So if we already go here like this, we wanted to have as many LET user being able to make some senseful use of the servers. And thats why we prioritize secondary IO while we did not want to let the financial loose just completely get out of control by adding additional faster space, that will, with 2x CPU/8 GB RAM, anyway not be of much real life use.
Thanks again for replying to all the messages. I have purchased a server to idle so you'd lose less money
What's the point of running this then? Obviously we don't want you to go out of business, given how much people here love your services.
@host_c and be done (although I find @layer7's offer worth to consider as well).
So, why would I go with host_c anyway? layer7 (indirectly) answers that question.
(from layer7's site)
Me not care, for a storage server even E5v4 is plenty good enough
Huh? For a storage server?
Huh? For a storage server?
Of bloody course a decent provider has Raid6, N+2, or similar.
IMO host_c offers real storage VPS, optimized for storage, while layer7's storage VPS looks inconsistent to me, like a quite decent standard VPS with a couple of TB slapped on.
Frankly, layer7, offer me that box without 5 TB and the 120 GB with a decent SSD for €2/mo and I might bite because it would be very decent standard VPS with a decent processor and plenty of memory - but for a storage box I prefer a true and real storage VPS optimized for it's job!
In other words: a 5 TB VPS for €5/mo means to squeeze quite a lot into a very tight budget. And I strongly prefer host_c's approach to put every cent into solid and fast storage over wasting a significant slice of the budget into gadgets like 8 GB memory which are quite useless for 95+% of storage boxes.
Please, don't get me wrong, layer7, I'm definitely not bashing you, quite the contrary, if you hadn't such a good reputation (presumably well deserved) I wouldn't even have looked at your offer but simply written "host_c, done".
TL;DR layer7 seems to be a very decent provider but when I'm looking for a storage box I prefer a well proven (as benchmarked) streamlined storage box and not a, granted quite nice, standard VPS with a couple of TB added on.
So: host_c it is. PROVEN high performance storage, and by that I mean that I've seen their storage spinning rust blow quite a few NVMes out of the water.
Hi,
we joined here in late 2023 as we wanted to strength ( actually develop from 0 ) our low cost portfolio.
Thanks to LET ( which includes the community ) this was successful.
I want to give something extra back of this success and show some gratitude.
So i was asking @FAT32 some time ago for his opinion and it boiled down to this event where we give ( or at least try to give ) useful quality for a very very affordable price.
And no worry, we are since 2003 in business so i have some idea howto survive and wont go too much easily on a business suicide mission and luckily we also have enough size to survive this more or less loss of maybe 500 TB space we talk here about.
And who knows, at the end of the day, its no real loss... we just have to wait maybe 2-4 years until we make the first real profit
But thank you very much for your consideration!
i have used them in past and they gave a very good offer. No complaints. So your right as usual
Unfortunately rules of this offer are too strict,
I’m not able to get a server(only old users are able to), in the moment for my personal use the maximum what I have is 200gb drive vps,
and original price on Layer7 is kinda not so cheap..x3 times more that this offer price I guess.
Hi,
actually your account qualifies for it. What makes you think it does not?
Its not only about age. There is an either or...
And yes, the normal pricing is a lot higher.
That is an insane offer. I guess I would qualify as well? Just checking before I submit anything because 5 TB for that price would do me good.
Hi,
yes you do.
So, short version: @layer7 seems to be quite laid back and a really decent provider