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KS-1 half year review
Since I bought KS-1 half a year had been passed, and I just wanted to say what I feel about it.
My usage for it currently:
- nextcloud
- jellyfin
- yacht
- vaultwarden
- shaarli
For nextcloud the performance is acceptable, even sometimes with heavy WebDAV load, it worked fine, but don't use nextcloud for streaming contents, it use huge CPU times to stream, I don't know why. that's why I added jellyfin.
As for jellyfin, sometimes the transcoding gives me trouble, I need to use my powerful Dedi to transcode to direct streamable format to playback smoothly, audio works perfectly through. At least I no need to worry about the resource limitations since I have full control of the hardware.
For the other two use case, it just works, its a light load even for an atom
Now only use 650G out of 2TB even though I put almost everything I can on KS-1.
My thoughts have a cloud that is totally in control is quite reassuring. If I didn't encounter LET, I am still using Google Drive. But the cons are, that you need to be careful not fucked up by yourself(rm -rf /etc), which I did once, it's painful to try to recover everything, but I can learn from my mistake and not do it again, that kind of experience is the Google drive will never give me.
Quite satisfied with the price and my needs.
Comments
What is this ? Searching in google doesn't give meaningful result
Maybe https://github.com/shaarli/shaarli ? Self-hosted bookmarking service
Corrected spelling in the post, thanks.
How much are you paying for it including VAT or whatever tax they charge ?
PRICE EXCL. VAT 64.87 €
VAT (0 %)0.00 €
I'm outside of Europe, so no VAT.
The processor in the KS-1 is around 11 years old, and was very much a budget processor then. I'm surprised you have any success in real-time transcoding TBH! To put it into perspective, the multi-core speed on these processors is about 300 (in GB5) and pretty much any of the Epyc or Ryzen VPS options would give you 900-1200 on a single core depending how crowded the server is.
That said, I do think the KS-1 is a great choice if you don't especially need performance. I've had mine 9 years now, and it's been perfect for storage, light web serving, my main shell account and knowing that it's a dedi has given me piece of mind.
I also love my handful of KS-1. all have 2TB of disk space and I use them mainly as a backup destination for my files. On one I installed mailcow and it’s running totally fine for my private use case. The processor is old, but tbh for my projects it’s enough. Also for serving static files they are great.
I basically turned transcode off, only use direct streaming, jellyfin works, nextcloud I guess it tried to transcode, that's why it uses all CPU power I guess.
Sorry if this a stupid question, as I've never buy any ks-* before, is this monthly or yearly ?
The price is unusual, so I guess yearly. The normal price is €4.99 + VAT per month.
Yes, yearly.
What speeds do you get? Please post a bench
You can use the quote below as a reference. I think it's low enough that not worth it for a bench.
https://lowendspirit.com/discussion/comment/88249/#Comment_88249
Mine is an old one, so I have half the RAM and half (or quarter) of the disk compared to one you'd get now.
But then why you pay 5.40 EUR/month? The price is 4.99 EUR if truly no VAT.
Maybe because the setup fee?
For setup fee is 4.99EUR One-time.
But good point, I never calculate the price by my own, if the invoice said 0 VAT then I believe it. Too innocent maybe?
Yeah, it's actually 64.87=13*4.99, so one time setup fee and then 12 months. Thanks!