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Storage VPS 5-8TB ?
I'm looking for a low cost storage vps starting at
5TB but can hopefully scale up to 8TB.
Ideally the scaling should grow the existing filesystem
and not add a new mount point.
I8 would want to run Centos 7 on this.
Time4VPS is so close to my needs at €16
per month for 4TB. But that is their top line
and less keen to have two chunks of storage.
Anyone know of any Storage VPS that is 5-8TB
at this kind of price point?
Comments
Maybe you should invest in a dedicated.
Forget it. No good hoster can provide this storage for decent prices.
Go with storage boxes from Hetzner https://www.hetzner.de/us/hosting/produktmatrix/storagebox-produktmatrix
Or just invest in a dedi as said before from bugrakoc.
Did you try contacting Time4vps and asking for a custom higher plan?
Also need, I'll use to back up
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I did try that but they won't go above 4TB sadly.
what is your budget?
About the same proportionally as the Time4VPS solution would be good. So say €18 - €25 per month.
Not at time4vps pricing, but we have storage VPS plans at $15/TB -- we can do a custom plans for the sizes you need.
https://mnx.io/pricing
I honestly don't think your budget is sustainable.
If you ever deside to increase it, I can offer you a dedicated server in Bulgaria or Germany, that would fit your needs. However pricing is slightly higher. Guaranteed storage only for you, though
How can one use the snapshot feature at hetzner effectively? Meaning once my space is full, can I simply create snapshot1 and clear my whole storage space for regular use? Then, once again its filled, I create snapshot2?
And so on?
Technically if I am buying the 2tb box I get 8 snapshots for free.. So in a way I get to dump 16tb of data?
Also if I need to restore 2 files from snapshot1 and a few files from snapshot2 could I do that easily?
Am I understanding it right? Please advise.
your not going to get 5TB for that, sorry.
The snapshots count towards your overall data usage.
"The storage space consumption of the snapshots is calculated with the storage capacity of the storage box. "
https://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Storage_Boxes/en#Snapshots
I believe someone ordered a 2TB box and tried to snapshot that 2TB and it didn't work.
The best I can do is $8/TB and will go upto 16TB per KVM (More on a custom order)
I have a server from the storage series: http://oneprovider.com/dedicated-servers/paris-france
I also have a own NAS with 2x8TB drives (quit cheap since it´s my own hardware) in a DC in Germany. Maybe this could work for you?
Delimiter has Slot hosting where you can send a drive and they will attach it to a VPS.. $120/Year https://cc.delimiter.com/cart/slot-hosting/
The Delimiter solution of adding your own disks is interesting.
Maybe even two time4vps solutions storages merged with mhddfs (which supposedly can combine two disk spaces into one) with sshfs. This would hit my price point.
Thanks for all the suggestions.
Who does oneprovider resell? Kimsufi?
Interesting.. I don't remember who but someone said snapshots are not counted with the disk space.... Maybe you are correct. Thanks
Please backup your data before you send your disk to them
Backup hardware disk too?
Hasn't there been multiple reports about Delimiter slot hosting this year of people waiting months to get their drives installed?
This is what I mean @Layer. Always be safe
found the old thread
https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/91607/hetzner-storage-box-showing-wrong-total-size-solved
So you want OpenVZ/LXC... at 8TB... for 25EUR... in a RAID....
8TB SMR drive (slow, but normal is 50% more) is 200EUR, 2 are 400EUR, a server costs at least 200EUR - 800EUR, usual calculation is by 12-24 months so for pure cost coverage without BW, Space or power (or failing HW) this means a price of 33-66EUR/mo.
Sure, this scales a bit on eg. a 24 bay chassis but then you get the controller costs, caching and general node sharing (CPU, RAM) which costs on other places, plus these systems are far more expensive.
TL;dr - what you want is not realistic. 3.125EUR/TB is, at this time, not realistic - especially as VPS with a disk and not as FTP, SMB, NFS or similar where i can (for the cost of RAM which is now comparatively cheap to 3-5y ago) deduplicate all your data across hundreds of customers.
Tl;dr 2 - Yes, i store years of backups as snapshots on a single server with a 5TB HW RAID, deduplication, compression and ZFS make such things VERY efficient, with at this time nearly 60k (!) snapshots:
Tue Dec 6 06:06:21 CET 2016
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https://prnt.li/1481000872-quuus0pe.png
that most probably was my fault back in the days, as I always supposed snapshots wouldn't and shouldn't count into that size... because it doesn't make any sense of having a snapshot for a fully used 2 TB space, if you can't use it, because you don't have space left.
anyways it had been an unproven wild guess until @Amitz found out for real in the thread @Hadriel posted above and hetzner comewhat clarified in their wiki ;-)
I wouldn't want to overlay mhddfs ontop of sshfs personally I think that's asking for trouble if something goes wrong at any point.
Those offers are Online.net servers.
Does not matter as it just on top level merges.
Sounds like a great tutorial for someone to throw together. Maybe it isn't that hard I just haven't looked into it. But combining multiple shares into one mount point sounds neat.
Would even be better if the tutorial showed you how to export that for windows to be able to mount as well.