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Yeah this is a nice config. No me neither to be honest I still use my Google business account for cloud storage with rclone works still like a charm.
iDrive E2 is very very slow even in same region. its very recommended. to avoid.
Yes, but the others are not cheaper then going dedicated. So I really don't understand why people would buy it. Maybe someone can explain.
Because the cost of doing dedicated properly at scale is quite high. Think how much devops professionals cost. Therefore the point at which it's worth rolling your own does not intersect most peoples use cases. $5/tb for storage isn't that expensive, the real costs are egress and transactions which can be mitigated with caching layers, which is way easier to spin up and maintain. Also allows you to grow without provisioning new hardware.
Compute is cheap, people aren't.
Unless of course you're storing Linux ISOs
But it's not so hard to set this up yourself why would I hire DevOps if I can do it myself ?
You would if you were a business. People need to be on top of security updates, ensuring the system is running smoothly, handle provisioning of new hardware (what if you spike in load and need an additional 20, 30, 40 tb of storage?), handling edge cases not seen under small use cases.
Personal use cases, sure why not, do whatever. But managing HA clusters of storage machines with an S3 layer on top isn't a "I can do it myself" instead of hiring professionals kind of thing. Unless your business is so so tiny that you may as well use an S3 provider or has such little free cash that you'll likely fail anyway. Remember I'm speaking about hundreds of TB of data here, potentially PBs of data.
I think what you are referring to are not the people on low-end
Yes, indeed.
Why do people use S3 services on lowend? They don't store much data and can therefore benefit from keeping data off their servers, making it easier to switch compute between lowend deals.
Why do people use S3 services on highend? Because it makes financial sense up until a point.
Yeah. But the exact passphrase sometimes doesn't work ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I have been using Scaleway, but their recent product changes and the removal of a free tier have led me to look elsewhere. I've switched over to Storj and I'm happy. I don't like any object storage providers that charge transactions as I've been burnt with B2 and rclone I think it was in the past, I don't want my backup software running some scan that costs me $$$. I find it annoying to login and then also put an encryption key, but that's the only downside.
can u give me the link which 40tb server at hetzner is avaliable
I'm not sure you can actually get a 40tb server for $55. I can see 4x10tb machines on auction for $76 though
I'm actually vaguely curious about this as well: That's the price point where I expect Hetzner to only give 16TB or so.
how is SeaweedFS performance? did you use it for > 3 months with moderate usage?
Unfortunately I haven't used it long enough or with enough load to comment. I'd recommend reading their github readme though, it does talk about performance https://github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs
I've used JuiceFS (similar thing to SeaweedFS) long time and its perfect.
https://github.com/juicedata/juicefs
Here's a comparison (It's by JuiceFS so they can ignore some of their drawbacks, but I didnt saw any drawbacks with mixed content - JPEGs, MP4s etc.)
https://juicefs.com/en/blog/engineering/similarities-and-differences-between-seaweedfs-and-juicefs-structures
never heard of JuiceFS, i will definitely check it.
Thank you and have a nice day
ehab
You can filter in the auction server:
€60.70 monthly
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CPU
Intel Xeon E3-1271V3
RAM
32 GB
Drives
4 x 10 TB Enterprise HDD
Location
FSN1-DC15
Information
IPv4ECCiNIC
Details
General
Server AuctionID: 2282595
Traffic: unlimited
Information
4 x RAM 8192 MB DDR3 ECC
4 x HDD SATA 10 TB Enterprise
NIC 1 Gbit - Intel I210
Support services
replacement of defective hardware
free email support
free phone support
But that's 60 euro... Higher than the amount stated earlier in the thread. 60 is a large enough difference to invalidate some of the comparisons made, honestly.
The prices change daily, so you have to check them on different time thats why its called auction. i see them as low of 45 this is the cheapest now, keep on eye on it.
thanks ill keep it eye on it
I would posit such variable pricing would make it automatically not-a-contender for many people looking for bulk storage that may need more added in the future.
You can buy more servers, if you know a place were to buy 40tb for max 60 euros please let me know.
I've been reviewing this post over the last few days, I have tested many of these services, AWS, backblaze, wasabi, but I have found idrive e2 to work very well and perform with speed, I am not sure what others are saying about it, but works for me.
Gorillaservers will get you a cheaper price per TB but that's buying huge servers, 192TB+. Not sure anyone could beat hetzner auctions except basement hosts on sub 100TB deployments tbh
I have been using iDrive e2 since September of 2023. I use it as a remote backup location for several types of backup files. No issues in my usage so far. I think the complaints that I've seen relate to the fact that it doesn't appear there is any redundancy or other protection in place by iDrive e2 in terms of each individual endpoint. They are likely just large storage servers with some sort of S3 compatible interface. There has been some significant downtime with a few of the locations and iDrive didn't communicate those very well.
In my case, I backup my e2 buckets to a local NAS in my house every 5 minutes, so even if my buckets were to go down, I could spin up new buckets in a different region and upload everything, update my scripts, and could be up and running in a couple of hours.
Their pricing at the time I signed up was quite good (5tb for $100/yr). I think that has increased since then. But, hard to beat, for my needs, at that price.
The 5TB for $100/year has increased, you will want to check your renewal price to make sure your next renewal price has not increased.
They are running Minio as the backend