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(Home) Production Level Cloud Storage / Dev Server - can you give me advice?
Hey, nice girls and guys:
I am questioning myself what the cheapest path to reliable storage is these days. I am looking for really cheap storage comparable to hosting yourself at home. Let me share my thoughts: I currently have about 100TB in my home / dev server. This seems to be a good time to let go of it.
And I don't really need 100TB. But whenever I look (even in the before AI times) storage and compute online are extremely expensive. This is more of a prosumer project and I bought the TB HDD for probably 3 EUR or so and I bought SSDs at 10 EUR / TB - used. Enterprise SATA Samsung MLC (!!!).
I cannot afford backups of that much data, so I am running RAIDZ1 on the bulk / HDD storage and I mirror for the SSD storage. I know the risk, ... but I just could not afford it.
So ... I wonder: If I could get those prices, why can I outcompete DCs by factors of whatever. I mean oftentimes a TB costs 3 / 4 EUR a month even with cheap vendors. I understand that power and service and so on is not free. But there must be a way to get cheap storage online or is there really not?
And the other issue that keeps me hosting at home is my dev server. I currently have a 5950X with 128GB DDR4 ECC for compiling stuff (same CPU, pulling double duty). And I would really like to ditch it in favor of an cloud offering. But that seems hard to come by. I often see servers like that goign for 100s a month when I paid maybe 200 for the chip, 50 for the mainboard and we dont talk about the RAM.
Same story: I have bursty usage. I do sleep (occassionally). There should be a cheaper way. But the power bill is next to nothing compared to getting this online. So what am I getting wrong?
TLDR: How to get cheap storage online? Where to get a cheap dev VPS online? And when you hunt for cheap storage are you trying to get S3 directly or rather a VPS and install S3 on it?
Best and excuse me for my rambling 
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