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Which is where all our LET storage offer's are.
Storage offer's -> Hetzner
SSD & Standard offering -> HP E5's
Try and make it clear in the offer threads, sorry for any confusion.
fair enough. in which case the op should go for you.
My answer is different...who's right?
@sandro
lol...storage sites is different than storage intended as backup.
storage backup=your daily backups or whatever
storage sites=rapidgator, etc.
Basically private owncloud = good, public owncloud = bad.
Still you can't serve files with their VPSs right? I find it limiting.
Can someone bring a LET representative here to talk about it?
so? that should not be the damn ISPs problem.
Removed from "maybe use at one point" list
Don't think there are many providers who allow to host storage sites on their VPS
Most providers wouldn't give a toss so long as you're within your resource limits and you're not offering illegal downloads, surely?
Then they service just for backup, i prefer to time4vps
Show me just 5 "larger" that don't, and i mean something like 100k+ yearly turnover (which would imply owner plus maybe 1 staff, which still is probably "small" even around here) and not a bedroom operation.
The situation is simple:
You pay for storage - which apparently according to the ISP is dedicated - and other ressources (either dedicated like RAM or shared like CPU), how you use them - implies legal usage, which a file locker type website IS in most countries, pending some restrictions - is not the ISPs problem but solely yours.
I would not let my ISP tell me what i can or can't do, thats a matter of local laws and not their ToS - One reason why i don't use hosts that ban adult content (yea, this is business, not your moral fantasy, banning porn is just idiotic), IRC ("DDoS risk" is a very overused phrase by now, FDC has no protection and allows IRC since like forever without much issues), Tor relays (not like there is even a single possibility the ISP could get legal issues with that, they just ban it to prevent you from fully using cheap "unmetered" deals that would be not sustainable), Gameservers (again, the DDoS risk is very overstated, this is to prevent "CPU abuse") or Legal P2P (yea, let's blanket ban an entire protocol, makes 110% sense).
My list of available hosts with non-idiotic reasonable ToS has not much shortened by this "rules", though i had to remove a bunch because their DCs implemented something of that list over their head (which means they are small anyway, else they would have their own network).
Share!!!
Maybe you can just sshfs to their storage vps to save porn and front end web to kidechire (online.net) :v
Most don't really fit into this topic considering OPs requirement, but i.e. from the list:
vStoike (RU) - Only bans porn as it is law in Russia (which is obviously reasonable cuz law and shit), own network
Mikrovps (HU) - Very reasonable P2P policy following HU laws, no idea about porn though, own IPs on a pretty relaxed upstream known in the porn industry (doclerweb)
UrDN (UA) - Reasonable ToS all around, own network with a (formerly) outright criminal ISP as upstream
Former:
EDIS - radical tos changes. not recommended anymore.
Sure, you can then argue with them about it - In the end they either win and kick you (or force you to stop) or give in and change ToS, with the first option being MUCH more likely.
So what? Did I make the rule? Take it on EthernetServers. Besides, there're plenty of providers that do not allow it.
I agree on the stupid rules of some providers to not allow porn.
Care to name a few? I honestly don't know of any VPS provider that prohibits public file storage sites.
How about some performance testing of storage services using something like fio:
What BW/IOPS do you get:
Delimiter's ObjectSpace lets you backup and serve content directly from the object store.
http://www.delimiter.com/landingpage/objspace/
You're not being constrained to a fraction of a single server in a VPS, but content is served across multiple servers from a fully redundant backend.
I personally use this both for backups (Duplicity/Arq) and fileserving with raw http, Owncloud and Pydio.
If you calculate the cost / performance / bandwidth then it actually fares well against these dirt cheap storage services.
I asked EthernetServer support to joing this conversation to kindly explain the actual TOS.
This should be amusing then.
@Hbr So, What you have taken already please share. We want to know :-)
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They said they won't comment on here.
There's no need. They replied:
It's obvious it's allowed, @Hbr
Yeah backups only though?!
Not sure what you mean? From their reply I understand you can store whatever you want as long as it's legal.
Dom's learning.
I asked for a refund (which they gave me) but they also deleted my client account...maybe they did me a favor.
Peering to EU was horrible to all locations (Miami, Buffalo and LA). Yes, they also offered me Miami, but network connection to France/Belgium was just horrible (1MB/s max).
$30TB will buy you a decent storage VPS with the power to do more then just backups.
For $20 you can get 4 TB dedicated server at Dacentec.