Cheap VPS to host my Romm database

nitanmacrek

Hello. I'm trying to reduce my costs and while I've moved my website to a cheaper solution I have one more thing to move out before I can give up on my 40 € VPS: My ~300 GB of retro roms.

Since I only need download speed and not processing speed, what cheap alternative I have to my VPS?

Thanks.

emperor

https://my.hostbrr.com/order/main/index/storagebox
as low as 7.77$/y for 500GB
is it packed with emu or only roms ?

nitanmacrek

@emperor said:
https://my.hostbrr.com/order/main/index/storagebox
as low as 7.77$/y for 500GB
is it packed with emu or only roms ?

Only Roms no emulators. And thanks I'll take a look

cgz9904099

If you're moving the RomM instance itself (not just the files), the migration is straightforward with Docker Compose:

1. Copy the library with rsync so it can resume if interrupted: rsync -aHP --partial /path/to/library/ user@newhost:/path/to/library/
2. Stop the old stack, dump the DB (docker compose exec romm-db mariadb-dump -u root -p romm > romm.sql), and copy over your docker-compose.yml, .env and the resources/assets/config volumes.
3. On the new box, start only the DB container, import the dump, then bring up RomM. Keep the same ROMM_AUTH_SECRET_KEY so existing sessions/users keep working.
4. Run a quick rsync again right before the cutover to catch any changes, then point DNS/reverse proxy at the new IP.

Since it's mostly static downloads, a storage box mounted via SSHFS/rclone is fine for the library, but keep the database on local disk.