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8TB UK Backup Server
Hello
I am seeking a UK VPS with at least the following specs and a budget of around £15-20/mo ex VAT.
2+ CPU Cores with CPU instruction set passthrough
4GB+ RAM
20GB+ SSD Boot Storage
8TB Additional Drive - Mechanical is fine, ideally SSD cached.
Shared 1Gbit Connectivity
5TB Transfer
1x Public facing IPv4 Address
Usage is for Borg / Rsync nightly backups from servers located in London and Wolverhampton.
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HY @mrl22 , not UK but in EU, Romania, RDS-RCS Datacenter
VPS Archimedes - Storage 8 TB
2 vCPU Xeon CPU V4 - Cpu Type -HOST, all passthrough
4 GB DDDR4 RAM
20 GB NVME Boot Drive
8 TB HDD Storage Add-on (Raid 6)
1 Free Backup of Boot Drive
1 Dedicated IPV4 IP
Internet @ 2 GBPS / Best Effort
Unmetered Internet Traffic
25.5 USD / MO
Looking Glass: https://lg-ro-or.host-c.com/
We can do some %off for you if you are interested.
Thanks. I already have one in Germany and Canada but am trying to bring it into the UK.
Our Backup servers in USA have Borgbackup installed and you can use it.
Here our US storage plans (not VPS) :
https://www.netdynamics24.com/client/order.php?step=1&productGroup=15
Use this coupon code:
LET30%to get lifetime recurring discount.No instruction passthrough, no boot drive:
HostBrr has (no aff)
For $16.67 / month. See product specs (aff)
Not even close to what he asked for? You seem to just spam your aff links on every thread with random servers
@davide I have a storage server with HostBrr at the moment.
What?
It matches all the minimum requirements, except ISA passthrough and secondary drive, as I clearly stated. Perhaps you want to re-read the specification?
Read the title, read the first sentence of the post, read the last sentence of the post, then read your response again.
Sir @bgerard , Germany has annexed the entirety of the United Kingdom last week, you are behind on the news.
I hope not, my energy bill couldn't possibly get any higher! Which is probably why I doubt OP will find the above machine within budget in the UK unfortunately.
The amount of people not reading OP's requirements are too high.
I'd be interested in the same.
But £20 for 8TB is going to be very hard to find, don't think I've ever seen anything come close to it.
@hosthatch has storage in the UK, pricing is going to be more in the land of reality (looks like 25gbp) but they'll be your best bet.
This was the closest I could think of too. Still not quite the requirements but I'm not convinced you'll find better.
I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave.
No okay I just did it. There is definitely a mental mechanism that filters lateral information before it reaches human attention, like ad banners, personal life stories, and fluff. Problem is, there is generally so much fluff that this kind of filtering gets too aggressive at times. I think this is hard to fix.
I wasn't sure what to budget. Hosting is more expensive here in the UK, but I already have a server in Canada with these specs for $20 and the same again in Germany for $16.
It is ex VAT, not that it makes a huge difference.
Why UK? They're like 8ms away from way way cheaper location
UK power pricing is insane, and HDDs use a lot of power.
Hello,
what if it is in Italy but paid in GBP?
LOL.. not a single even UK offer. Threads like this should really be heavy moderated or closed
Theres a Ukraine vs Russia thread with 17k comments on a hosting forum... where would it end?
this use case doesn't give a crap if its in UK or fuckin' Asia, therefore all offers are valid, it could even been seen as a gentleman gesture so OP spends his wallet more wisely. can you stop derail threads, a veteran should know better
@mrl22: I don't know of a single offer from the UK that matches all your requirements. I may try to search the EU with the exclusion of HostBrr if you are interested.
^ This.
That's what I called "fluff" in my comment above, and it didn't reach the brain chambers until someone defecated on my shoes. Some requests at times include excerpts of personal life stories. The internet is a ruthless place.
https://imgur.com/dU7rdMx
Not a VM offer, as we don't have a high density spinning-disk VM offering at the moment. However we can offer a dedicated server which is close to the price point:
Intel Avanton C2750
8GB RAM
Intel 120GB SSD
8TB Seagate ST8000AS0002
IPMI access
10TB on 1Gbit port
£32/month (incl VAT)
Location is London (Verne Global formerly Volta) on our 100G backbone well-peered network.
How do you know what it is that the OP needs? Maybe they really need a UK-located server for reasons that they aren't obligated to explain to us?
These disks are what made everyone get a hate boner for SMR. No TRIM and worst case seq write speeds of 1MB/s. Way way worse than the average SMR disk
Top tier reliability once filled and treated as WORM, but getting there is a painful experience
I can say from experience this is not a drive for daily backup jobs
We can offer this for 25 GBP per month at our London, UK location
Looking Glass: https://uk.lg.kuroit.com/
DM me if you want to order.
It would make zero sense where the physical disk is located anyway. For compliance the logical step is encryption etc, at that point your thinking military tank rushing through datacenter doors. It's funny but that's all
Thank you for all your responses.
The reasons I had opted that I wanted to move the backup server to the UK is that there have been a few providers I have used from LET who I have found to have fairly poor transfer speeds between our servers. Running a speedtest on both ends give almost 1Gbit, but an iperf between them anywhere from 100-250Mbit. Most of our servers are located at DigitalOcean London.
Also, there have been two providers I have purchased storage servers from recently who claimed NVMe cached storage, but in reality, I have had storage performance as low as 9MBps and 15 IOPS. I understand that cached doesn't mean fast, but I expected a bit more than a 10th of a single mechanical drive in performance. I will not name them as they have been fantastic and apologetic on support tickets.
The storage performance doesn't need to be amazing, but Borg initialization hanging due to seek times is painful.
There is also the aspect of GDPR, which is not as important as the backup data being encrypted before leaving the server using Borg.
We are willing to offer you free trial of our service for a few days. Contact us for details.