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LF VDS/Dedicated Server with Storage

nextlevelnextlevel Member
edited May 2024 in Requests

My current server is slowly reaching its capacity (75% of 4TB), so I am on the lookout for a new one. Here is what I'm generally looking for:

Cores: minimum 4 (dedicated). Anything comparable to a i5-7500t would work perfectly fine, but I need dedicated resources (VDS/Dedi).

RAM: minimum 32GB

Disk Space: minimum 8TB

Disk Type: SSD is preferred but may not fit in my budget. If HDD, I would like to have redundancy and good speeds.

Bandwidth: minimum 20TB. CF shows I served 17TB in the last 30 days and 9TB was cached. If ingress is metered, a grace period to migrate my data would be appreciated.

Port Speed: minimum 1Gbps

DDoS Protection: not needed

Number of IPs: 1

Location: EU

Budget: ~80 USD monthly. Currently looking to pay monthly, but I may shift to a quarterly plan if everything works out.

Budget may be too low, but please send any/all offers. I would rather have the option than not know at all. Also, I am looking to entirely avoid KYC and pay with CC or crypto.

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  • conceptconcept Member
    edited May 2024

    The first thing that comes to mind is @PulsedMedia Minidedicated servers + One of their Storage boxes.

    Other than that I would think Hetzner, Seedhost.eu, Mevspace and Oneprovider is your best bet.

    Thanked by 2nextlevel PulsedMedia
  • nextlevelnextlevel Member

    @concept said:
    The first thing that comes to mind is @PulsedMedia Minidedicated servers + One of their Storage boxes.

    Other than that I would think Hetzner, Seedhost.eu, and Oneprovider is your best bet.

    My current server is with PulsedMedia, and I've had a great experience with them. I have tried using their storage boxes, but sadly I hit the file limit before I can even use the full capacity. If they put out a 8TB model around my budget, I'll be the first to purchase it :)

    I am not sure about Hetzner/Oneprovider's KYC procedures, but Seedhost is definitely on my list of options. Thanks!

    Thanked by 1PulsedMedia
  • labzelabze Member, Patron Provider

    This can be setup next week

    4 vCore AMD 7950XD
    32 GB RAM
    150 GB NVMe
    8 TB HDD (NVMe cached)
    50 TB bandwidth @ 10 Gbps
    Frankfurt, Germany.

    $80/month

    Thanked by 1nextlevel
  • lukast__lukast__ Member, Megathread Squad

    @nextlevel said: sadly I hit the file limit before I can even use the full capacity.

    Likely you could setup a loopback filesystem, a large file containing for example an ext4 filesystem:

    cd [MOUNTPOINT]
dd if=/dev/zero of=fs bs=1M count=[SIZE_IN_MB]
mkfs.ext4 fs
mkdir data
mount fs data

    And for the server, @layer7 might have something.

    Thanked by 3PulsedMedia nextlevel totally_not_banned
  • SGrafSGraf Member, Patron Provider

    @nextlevel said:
    My current server is slowly reaching its capacity (75% of 4TB), so I am on the lookout for a new one. Here is what I'm generally looking for:

    Cores: minimum 4 (dedicated). Anything comparable to a i5-7500t would work perfectly fine, but I need dedicated resources (VDS/Dedi).

    RAM: minimum 32GB

    Disk Space: minimum 8TB

    Disk Type: SSD is preferred but may not fit in my budget. If HDD, I would like to have redundancy and good speeds.

    Bandwidth: minimum 20TB. CF shows I served 17TB in the last 30 days and 9TB was cached. If ingress is metered, a grace period to migrate my data would be appreciated.

    Port Speed: minimum 1Gbps

    DDoS Protection: not needed

    Number of IPs: 1

    Location: EU

    Budget: ~80 USD monthly. Currently looking to pay monthly, but I may shift to a quarterly plan if everything works out.

    Budget may be too low, but please send any/all offers. I would rather have the option than not know at all. Also, I am looking to entirely avoid KYC and pay with CC or crypto.

    I can conjure something up that will be within your budget. You can in touch via ticket or dm. At your option i can work something in either Amsterdam or vienna.

    Thanked by 1nextlevel
  • allthemtingsallthemtings Member, Megathread Squad

    Hard to beat hetzner when it comes to storage, check the dedi auctions out

    Thanked by 1nextlevel
  • djuniordjunior Member, Patron Provider

    Hi, I have the following for you! :smile:

    Intel Xeon Processor E3-1230 v6 (4c/8t)
    32 GB DDR4 RAM

    1x 10 TB HDD
    1G Uplink unmetered (fair use)
+ 5 IPv4 Address
    Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    DMCA Ignored - Owned hardware - 3–4 days set-up

    We normally don't offer this one with 10 TB, so DM me, and we can work it out.

    €60/month

    Thanked by 1nextlevel
  • sh97sh97 Member, Host Rep

    Reach out to @crunchbits

    Thanked by 1nextlevel
  • lukast__lukast__ Member, Megathread Squad

    @sh97 said:
    Reach out to @crunchbits

    In Europe?

  • hosthatchhosthatch Patron Provider, Top Host, Veteran

    If you would be willing to work with New York, we can do $50/mo with 8TB RAID-10 HDD and 100GB NVMe for OS. 4 dedicated Intel Gold 6140 cores, 32GB RAM, 50 TB bandwidth (incoming+outgoing), 40Gbps public/private network.

    Can move you to one of our EU locations (London, Amsterdam, Stockholm) for +$10/mo, but we do not have this available there as of yet. Will be a couple months at least.

    Thanked by 1nextlevel
  • PulsedMediaPulsedMedia Member, Patron Provider

    @concept said:
    The first thing that comes to mind is @PulsedMedia Minidedicated servers + One of their Storage boxes.

    Other than that I would think Hetzner, Seedhost.eu, Mevspace and Oneprovider is your best bet.

    Thanks.

    8TB models are not yet available, we have plans for them but we are deep into new DC build, and that's our main focus. Also honing in the mass production, automation and finding additional staff to get into the mass production.

    One model we intend to beta test by year's end is a 6x2.5" SATA SSD Intel N100 units, parts for 2 are in the inventory but it'll probably be another 4 months before we build our first one (needs new power delivery, hardware changes etc.)

    A few 2x4TB NVMe models might appear during summer.

    For @nextlevel 's current need, all we can offer is multiple MDs and split them OR MD+RAID5 Storage Box mounted with rclone using the local nvme as cache.

    @lukast__ said:

    @nextlevel said: sadly I hit the file limit before I can even use the full capacity.

    Likely you could setup a loopback filesystem, a large file containing for example an ext4 filesystem:

    cd [MOUNTPOINT]
dd if=/dev/zero of=fs bs=1M count=[SIZE_IN_MB]
mkfs.ext4 fs
mkdir data
mount fs data

    And for the server, @layer7 might have something.

    this sounds like excellent thing to test, very easy to backup then as well, since it's just 1 large file.

    rclone caching might not function as expected, but it's very simple just to loopback mount multiple then to enhance the caching.

    also there are mergerfs etc. via fuse, but should try as simple as possible. Simplest option might be to just spread the load to multiple nodes.

    @nextlevel said: sadly I hit the file limit

    We have very high file limits to start with, has to be what like 300k average per file in size?

    Why not just pick a 8TB version then or couple 4TB?

    Trying to understand the use case too, if you can would like to hear about it.
    By the file size, and amount served tho, it sounds like SSD is a necessity or at least caching for you.

    Thanked by 1nextlevel
  • jayjayjayjay Member, Patron Provider

    Will DM you

    Thanked by 1nextlevel
  • sh97sh97 Member, Host Rep

    @lukast__ said:

    @sh97 said:
    Reach out to @crunchbits

    In Europe?

    Missed that, my bad.

    Thanked by 1lukast__
  • nextlevelnextlevel Member

    @PulsedMedia said:

    Trying to understand the use case too, if you can would like to hear about it.
    By the file size, and amount served tho, it sounds like SSD is a necessity or at least caching for you.

    Pretty much 90% of my storage is image files from 100kb-10mb per file. I had a 8TB storage box mounted up using rclone and it was working perfectly actually. Maybe I misunderstood the file limit, but it looked like I was going to reach it faster than reaching the storage limit. But retrospectively, it might’ve been better value to just purchase an additional one, so it might be worth giving a shot again. I think multiple MDs would over complicate things with how I have my applications set up currently.

    I’m not very well versed in the terminology and all the concepts that were mentioned, but I’m willing to learn/do some research. This is all a hobby project and a learning experience for me, not a business. I appreciate your insight.

  • nextlevelnextlevel Member

    Thank you everyone who sent an offer. I’ll have to upgrade in the coming month, so this really helps a ton.

  • conceptconcept Member

    If PulsedMedia is able to help you with this, it would honestly be better so you don't have to spend the time to migrate all of your stuff elsewhere.

    Thanked by 2nextlevel PulsedMedia
  • layer7layer7 Member, Host Rep, LIR

    @nextlevel said:
    My current server is slowly reaching its capacity (75% of 4TB), so I am on the lookout for a new one. Here is what I'm generally looking for:

    Cores: minimum 4 (dedicated). Anything comparable to a i5-7500t would work perfectly fine, but I need dedicated resources (VDS/Dedi).

    RAM: minimum 32GB

    Disk Space: minimum 8TB

    Disk Type: SSD is preferred but may not fit in my budget. If HDD, I would like to have redundancy and good speeds.

    Bandwidth: minimum 20TB. CF shows I served 17TB in the last 30 days and 9TB was cached. If ingress is metered, a grace period to migrate my data would be appreciated.

    Port Speed: minimum 1Gbps

    DDoS Protection: not needed

    Number of IPs: 1

    Location: EU

    Budget: ~80 USD monthly. Currently looking to pay monthly, but I may shift to a quarterly plan if everything works out.

    Budget may be too low, but please send any/all offers. I would rather have the option than not know at all. Also, I am looking to entirely avoid KYC and pay with CC or crypto.

    Hi,

    Virtual Server with dedicated resources:

    8x dedicated AMD Epyc CPU ( will be for sure better than i5-7500t )
    64 GB RAM
    8 TB NVMe ( 20k IOPS, 500 MB/s BW ) N+1 redundancy
    50 TB Traffic included
    5G Portspeed ( weekly 250 Mbit/s average usage )
    1x IPv4/IPv6

    Price per month: 79,- EUR

    If weekly average > 250 Mbit/s usage, temporary portspeed reduction to 150 Mbit/s ( will be mathed every 5 min )

    Serverlocation: France - Paris

    Paying via Creditcard or Crypto is possible

    Thanked by 1nextlevel
  • nextlevelnextlevel Member

    @concept said:
    If PulsedMedia is able to help you with this, it would honestly be better so you don't have to spend the time to migrate all of your stuff elsewhere.

    That would definitely make life easier, but I don’t want to impose. I’ll maybe try buying a storage box, follow what was said in this thread and see how it goes for a month, otherwise I’ll look into other options.

  • nextlevelnextlevel Member

    @layer7 said:

    @nextlevel said:
    My current server is slowly reaching its capacity (75% of 4TB), so I am on the lookout for a new one. Here is what I'm generally looking for:

    Cores: minimum 4 (dedicated). Anything comparable to a i5-7500t would work perfectly fine, but I need dedicated resources (VDS/Dedi).

    RAM: minimum 32GB

    Disk Space: minimum 8TB

    Disk Type: SSD is preferred but may not fit in my budget. If HDD, I would like to have redundancy and good speeds.

    Bandwidth: minimum 20TB. CF shows I served 17TB in the last 30 days and 9TB was cached. If ingress is metered, a grace period to migrate my data would be appreciated.

    Port Speed: minimum 1Gbps

    DDoS Protection: not needed

    Number of IPs: 1

    Location: EU

    Budget: ~80 USD monthly. Currently looking to pay monthly, but I may shift to a quarterly plan if everything works out.

    Budget may be too low, but please send any/all offers. I would rather have the option than not know at all. Also, I am looking to entirely avoid KYC and pay with CC or crypto.

    Hi,

    Virtual Server with dedicated resources:

    8x dedicated AMD Epyc CPU ( will be for sure better than i5-7500t )
    64 GB RAM
    8 TB NVMe ( 20k IOPS, 500 MB/s BW ) N+1 redundancy
    50 TB Traffic included
    5G Portspeed ( weekly 250 Mbit/s average usage )
    1x IPv4/IPv6

    Price per month: 79,- EUR

    If weekly average > 250 Mbit/s usage, temporary portspeed reduction to 150 Mbit/s ( will be mathed every 5 min )

    Serverlocation: France - Paris

    Paying via Creditcard or Crypto is possible

    This is really nice. Would it be possible to do 4x cores and 32 GB RAM for a lower monthly price?

  • MoopahMoopah Member

    @layer7 said:

    @nextlevel said:
    My current server is slowly reaching its capacity (75% of 4TB), so I am on the lookout for a new one. Here is what I'm generally looking for:

    Cores: minimum 4 (dedicated). Anything comparable to a i5-7500t would work perfectly fine, but I need dedicated resources (VDS/Dedi).

    RAM: minimum 32GB

    Disk Space: minimum 8TB

    Disk Type: SSD is preferred but may not fit in my budget. If HDD, I would like to have redundancy and good speeds.

    Bandwidth: minimum 20TB. CF shows I served 17TB in the last 30 days and 9TB was cached. If ingress is metered, a grace period to migrate my data would be appreciated.

    Port Speed: minimum 1Gbps

    DDoS Protection: not needed

    Number of IPs: 1

    Location: EU

    Budget: ~80 USD monthly. Currently looking to pay monthly, but I may shift to a quarterly plan if everything works out.

    Budget may be too low, but please send any/all offers. I would rather have the option than not know at all. Also, I am looking to entirely avoid KYC and pay with CC or crypto.

    Hi,

    Virtual Server with dedicated resources:

    8x dedicated AMD Epyc CPU ( will be for sure better than i5-7500t )
    64 GB RAM
    8 TB NVMe ( 20k IOPS, 500 MB/s BW ) N+1 redundancy
    50 TB Traffic included
    5G Portspeed ( weekly 250 Mbit/s average usage )
    1x IPv4/IPv6

    Price per month: 79,- EUR

    If weekly average > 250 Mbit/s usage, temporary portspeed reduction to 150 Mbit/s ( will be mathed every 5 min )

    Serverlocation: France - Paris

    Paying via Creditcard or Crypto is possible

    How "dedicated" are the cores, if you can clarify?

  • layer7layer7 Member, Host Rep, LIR

    @nextlevel said:
    This is really nice. Would it be possible to do 4x cores and 32 GB RAM for a lower monthly price?

    Hi,

    actually that makes no real difference. The 8 TB are so expensive, that they make the price here. The rest you get more or less for free on top.

    I could give it to you with 4 cores / 32 GB RAM for 5,- EUR less or so, thats nonsense basically.

    @Moopah said:
    How "dedicated" are the cores, if you can clarify?

    For us dedicated means dedicated. Its yours. If you use it for 100% for 24/7/365, its your problem to kill your own server performance. If you do 0%, then its waiting for your workload, and your workload alone.

    I am currently preparing an update for our website to introduce VDS. Simply check next week our website if its interesting for you.

    Thanked by 3nextlevel iKeyZ lukast__
  • Smith42Smith42 Member

    I'd suggest looking into some OVH and/or Leaseweb resellers. I think you can definitely find what you're looking for within your budget quite easily there.

    Thanked by 1nextlevel
  • totally_not_bannedtotally_not_banned Member
    edited May 2024

    @lukast__ truncate -s 1G disk.img not that it makes much of a difference outside of very large files but in my opinion it's a nifty little way to make allocate empty space.

    Thanked by 1lukast__
  • lukast__lukast__ Member, Megathread Squad

    @totally_not_banned said:
    @lukast__ truncate -s 1G disk.img not that it makes much of a difference outside of very large files but in my opinion it's a nifty little way to make allocate empty space.

    @totally_not_banned said:
    @lukast__ truncate -s 1G disk.img not that it makes much of a difference outside of very large files but in my opinion it's a nifty little way to make allocate empty space.

    Yes, but truncate does not actually allocate the size, it only changes the file size metadata and can/will succeed even when not enough (physical) space is available. The best solution in my eyes (which I didn't use because I was too lazy to look up the command line options of fallocate) would be to use fallocate -zl 1G disk.img, which also has the advantage that the file is most likely unfragmented.

    Thanked by 1totally_not_banned
  • totally_not_bannedtotally_not_banned Member

    @lukast__ said:

    @totally_not_banned said:
    @lukast__ truncate -s 1G disk.img not that it makes much of a difference outside of very large files but in my opinion it's a nifty little way to make allocate empty space.

    @totally_not_banned said:
    @lukast__ truncate -s 1G disk.img not that it makes much of a difference outside of very large files but in my opinion it's a nifty little way to make allocate empty space.

    Yes, but truncate does not actually allocate the size, it only changes the file size metadata and can/will succeed even when not enough (physical) space is available. The best solution in my eyes (which I didn't use because I was too lazy to look up the command line options of fallocate) would be to use fallocate -zl 1G disk.img, which also has the advantage that the file is most likely unfragmented.

    Interesting. I guess i was lucky that i've always had enough space then. If it's as fast as truncate that seems pretty handy for examples. Not failing for out of space could probably bite people unexpectedly.

    Thanked by 1lukast__
  • alexhostalexhost Member, Patron Provider
    edited May 2024

    Hi, dear @nextlevel

    We have Cheap Dedicated Servers, but for 10TB it will increase the price a little.

    Are you fine if you can have 6TB or 4TB?

    You can configure your dedicated server during the order, we have many options:
    https://alexhost.com/dedicated-servers/

    Unfortunately with 10TB or 8TB it will be up of your budget limit.
    If you are available to drop some requirements we are here!

    Maybe if you contact us we can make a deal.
    DDoS Protection and IPv4 / IPv6
    1Gbps
    Location: Europe (Republic of Moldova, City of Chisinau)

    We recommend pay with Crypto, we don't like KYC also :)

    Anything just contact us!

    Best Regards,
    Alexhost

    Thanked by 1nextlevel
  • lukast__lukast__ Member, Megathread Squad
    edited May 2024

    @totally_not_banned said:

    @lukast__ said:

    @totally_not_banned said:
    @lukast__ truncate -s 1G disk.img not that it makes much of a difference outside of very large files but in my opinion it's a nifty little way to make allocate empty space.

    @totally_not_banned said:
    @lukast__ truncate -s 1G disk.img not that it makes much of a difference outside of very large files but in my opinion it's a nifty little way to make allocate empty space.

    Yes, but truncate does not actually allocate the size, it only changes the file size metadata and can/will succeed even when not enough (physical) space is available. The best solution in my eyes (which I didn't use because I was too lazy to look up the command line options of fallocate) would be to use fallocate -zl 1G disk.img, which also has the advantage that the file is most likely unfragmented.

    Interesting. I guess i was lucky that i've always had enough space then. If it's as fast as truncate that seems pretty handy for examples. Not failing for out of space could probably bite people unexpectedly.

    It's a bit slower as it has to mark blocks as used but still way faster as dd:

    $ time dd if=/dev/zero of=test1 bs=1M count=10240
10240+0 records in
10240+0 records out
10737418240 bytes (11 GB, 10 GiB) copied, 21.6095 s, 497 MB/s

real    0m21.611s
user    0m0.018s
sys     0m12.568s

$ time truncate -s 10G test2
real    0m0.002s
user    0m0.001s
sys     0m0.000s

$ touch test3 && time fallocate -zl 10G test3
real    0m0.010s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.007s

$ md5sum test*
2dd26c4d4799ebd29fa31e48d49e8e53  test1
2dd26c4d4799ebd29fa31e48d49e8e53  test2
2dd26c4d4799ebd29fa31e48d49e8e53  test3

    And to demonstrate the problem with truncate:

    $ df -h .
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/vda1       237G   21G  207G  10% /
$ truncate -s 1T test
$ stat test
  File: test
  Size: 1099511627776   Blocks: 0          IO Block: 4096 regular  file
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