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Storage VDS or Dedi server
Hello,
Looking for a VDS or dedi box with following specs to build a storage box.
NL location prefered
OS drive - SSD or NVME (size doesn't matter that much)
Storage - 8+ TB with at least 4+ drives.
Network - 1 or 10 Gbit.
RAM: 8 GB +
More drives the merrier to have good I/O, at least 4 drives would be needed for that.
Initial transfer would be about 4-6 TB to the machine, with syncs running nightly to another cold storage location.
If the dedi has SSD/NVME OS drive, I will take care of storage array setup.
CPU isn't that much of concern, if it is a dedi box, at least 4 cores / 8 threads would be fine.
Budget 50-80 euro.
Thank you!
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We can provide it, I’ll share you our offer soon
If you need it just for syncing data, just as storage box; wouldn't a storage box like ours be more than sufficient?
These; https://pulsedmedia.com/storage-boxes.php
IL advice you to go to Hetzner perfect for this
I need full root to setup the needed services and VPN on the box for clients to access, hence a isolated machine.
Hetzner's not bad, just wanted to see what LET has to offer, ideally in NL due to latency, closest to it's target audience.
I think you will not find cheaper in the Netherlands, on the other side Hetzner got great peering with Netherlands so don't worry to much about te location
Hetzner is a good option. If you want NL, then I would look at Seedhost.eu they resell Leaseweb.
ok then MD + Storage Box combo; https://pulsedmedia.com/minidedi-dedicated-servers-finland.php
Still well under your budget, and plenty of performance.
rclone mount w/ cache enabled, and pick a M10G RAID5 storage box; those are typically 6 drives in RAID5.
Stay away from pulsed. Overpriced and trash network
You seem to know all the trash networks 😭 who do you recommend?
I wouldn't take this dude's opinion much seriously, just look at his profile lol
haven't used pulsedmedia though
Trash trash trash
Pulsedmedia is good but for peering Hetzner would be better for you
Without some qualification (what problems do you know about with their network and other parts of the service) that isn't particularly helpful.
It looks like the unkempt fellow who frequents the local park and repeatedly shouts the same insults at the squirrels!
Pulsedmedia is great. MD has few minutes downtime recently, but as expected, currently in beta stage indicates on the order page.
CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2640v4
RAM: 16GB DDR4 ECC
DISKS: 1x 120GB SSD NVMe PCIe, 4x 4TB HDD
UPLINK: 40TB @ 1Gbps
1 IPv4, /48 IPv6
Remote Management Panel
PRICE: €80/month VAT incl.
Bit too strong there, they have a pretty unique offering, and their services that I've used in the past were quite good, and the network worked quite good.
In my book Pulsed is a quite good provider.
Depends what you were peering to, but I had some big names where I was sent half way around the globe to connect to.
And you can't say they're trash without providing examples that you were specifically wronged by them for something. Just saying it doesn't make it true.
Have had users of ours moving data between @PulsedMedia network and ours which doesn't get much further physically and 1G links were always excellent speeds. They've been around forever and have a pretty solid and unique offering. That guy was just making a bunch of low effort edgy bait posts.
The poster was a confirmed troll who has been banned. Discard their opinions (if you can even call them that).
Thanks @greenDot @crunchbits @PineappleM @jason5545 @MeAtExampleDotCom and @WhiteRoseG
We aim to provide the best possible service given the constraints at play.
Infact, despite that guy being an obvious troll, reminiscent of certain place of forums starting with R (which all in it's wokeness and trashyness shall not be named!); Every provider has an occasional issue. You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs! And having 100% satisfied customer base means you don't have customers in any meaningful capacity. I mean seriously, we've had complaints that we don't have support because we took longer than 30minutes to respond to a low priority ticket. Or rampage we don't have customer care, as the customer never even opened a ticket in the first place at all.
There's also the obvious flamewars etc. done by competitors; Especially in the seedbox niche which is slowly dying, presumably for large portion that no one is willing to work with each other pretty much.
For example, one very well known seedbox provider approached us wanting to buy us out, discussion turned to us buying them out. We didn't come to a deal. Their response was to start DDOS'ng us, without even bothering to hide it was them.
It's as if every other operator in the SB niche has a zero sum game mentality, or is it because it's been withering and dying slowly over the past decade. I don't know. All i know if we pooled our resources and worked together, the seedbox niche could be revitalized and the pie would start growing instead of shrinking. Every operator would have more pie, instead of less each year.
Regardless, network issues just happens sometimes. That prompted us to make quite a thorough network diagnostics page; https://wiki.pulsedmedia.com/index.php/Network_Diagnostics
Network debugging is insanely hard often, i mean it boggles the mind how difficult it can be. Sometimes stuff just is not fixable without huge expenditure. Just see the examples section: https://wiki.pulsedmedia.com/index.php/Network_Diagnostics#Real_Life_Examples_of_Issues
can vouche for @PulsedMedia - they have been around forever with transparency, good value and polar opposite of Hetzner's way of thinking. peering to my NL nodes maxes out throughput no problem.
Yes they are good also long in the game started with seedboxes for torrent sites I think, but for peering the German location from Hetzner is better for Netherlands if you want low latency