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[MLNL.Host] Storage VPS anyone? We're thinking about them
Hi all!
The cheesiest hosting company is back! - I mean we never left, but we're back with a very important question for you millennials (ok fine zoomers too)
My partner @randvegeta and I have been talking about offering Storage VPSs, and with all the intense Black Friday talks we thought we'd come ask in the one place where we can expect brutally honest feedback.
Initial thoughts are to offer KVM VPSs with at least 250 GB storage (with additional plans offering increments in disk space), all on 1 Gbps lines (although speeds shouldn't be too important because erm its a VPS for backups).
Would this be of interest to anyone?
What would you expect spec wise?
What's the max amount of space you'd expect on a Storage VM?
Any other comments?
Thanks all!
- Storage VPS in Hong Kong?77 votes
- Yay53.25%
- Nay46.75%
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No pricing, no feedback. Everyone gonna click Yay because CHEAP and then turns out not cheap due to HK.
Also no idea how many people need Hong Kong for storage.
Nay
2 TB less than 50$ yearly. i would buy it
nah mate. If its meant for backup then go with sg for cheaper bandwidth and space
Fair, we'll post some potential pricing soon.> @skorupion said:
Care to share price/spec?
I don't really see the appeal in a HK storage VPS since HK is mainly good for latency which isn't really useful for storage VPS.
Storage VPSes are measured in TBs here. (see pulsedmedia, serisen and other offers). The moment you are writing "GB" few days before BF, it's a Nay.
Specially that most people here (I guess?) are from EU/NA so no one really needs his storage in HK. HK location might be required for people deploying apps and want nodes in Asia, etc, but I hardly doubt anyone here will find it attractive for storage, not at HK pricing since it is an expensive location.
(my 2 cents... feel free to disagree)
Not sure who wants storage in HK, but it’s definitely not me.
Sure. 125 HKD/year for 250GB and I'll buy.
I don't have any Hong Kong money
I guess it depends on how much bandwidth, ram and CPU is actually needed.
HK$125/yr = US$16, or about US$1.33 /month.
Since a 10TB disk is around $200, assuming no redundancy at all, the cost of the disk can be covered easily enough, but I don't know how much CPU/RAM/Bandwidth can be supplied with the rest of the budget.
How much do you think you need?
My current backup server is USD 15/year:
If you make a product for backup purpose, this is the plan to compete against.
Look at this table if you want to know which provider.
Hong Kong location is not a factor for backup, except in the rare case of regulatory restrictions.
With a crappy CPU, minimal RAM and NAT.. should be easily done I think.
I would love a non-NAT ipv4 VPS at this price
Watch out for our Black Friday deals coming up - can't say it's going to be that cheap but may still interest you!
Interesting, could you... hint at when that might be?
I'm looking forward for some annual APAC Storage plans
I am thinking about HK servers for 2€ with IPv4.
sweet spot would be 1TB RAID for $30 annually.
1 core is enough, ram depends on generosity. have seen anything from 512MB - 2GB, really depends on the hardware (DDR3/DDR4) i guess.
naturally for APAC location the traffic would be less. so how about 1.5TB or so.
10Gbps non premium bandwidth will be a huge bonus, but anything less than 1gbps (125MB/s) burstable isnt much of incentive these days.
if cost of HDD is easily recoverable then it makes sense to go big on dics, to offset IPv4 and Traffic costs
if it makes sense to shave off IPv4 and go NAT+IPv6, why not explore that as well if it translates to either lower price or better config.
Brutal Honest Feedback™
Thanks all! Appreciate all the feedback, keep it coming