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Cheap VPS with lots of storage?
I originally wanted to serve several docker containers from home (mostly immich for family photos and komga for comics and instruction manuals) but then realised that our measly 8MBit upstream connection is nowhere near enough for proper usage, especially with immich there are huge waiting times, when several family members want to check or upload something.
Additionally, I have a storage box account with 1TB from Hetzner (currently used for backing up the photos) and a free tier oracle VM account, recently upgrade to pay-as-you-go, to reduce the chance of oracle temrinating the account. So I have now mounted the storage box via SMB to the oracle VM and have the immich & komga docker hosted there. However, firstly the oracle free VMs seem to have a tendency to get blocked if oracle deems the usage too high and secondly, the connection from Hetzner via SMB to the oracle VM does not seem to reliable to me (only two weeks experience, so far no major outages), which is why I thought to combine the two.
Question: Is there a somewhat decent VPS (equivalent to a low-end CPU and ~4-8GB RAM) but with a larger amount of storage (comparable to the storage box, so 1-2TB)? Or would this be too much, cost-wise? I'd be willing to pay up to 10$/€ per month or is this absurdly utopian and I should remain with Oracle & Storage Box?
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Keep in mind that immich isn't supposed to be exposed to Internet ever.
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Thanks!
Care to elaborate? I am currently using (for the selfhosted verasion from home) Cloudflare tunnel & Authelia to protect the login.
From their website.
These do add a layer of protection ofc, especially if it's 2FA. But who knows, first zero-day and your family photos are potentially everywhere. Imo never can be "secure enough" for such things.
Immich docs recommend VPN or Tailscale (basically also a VPN) to server.
Unfortunately the storage servers are way too big (read: expensive) and the 'regular' VPS have too little storage.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯That sounds like a really sweet deal but I need a storage space including some kind of computing power to run those containers.
@host_c
Got one to try it out!! thanks!!
Can I order 1TB to try and increase for the same price? How long would this be able to increase at this price?
+1 for @jfreak53 Microtronix
Yes you can, simply open a ticket for upgrade later.
Thanks for the kudos @dev_vps!
A quick question
Sorry, we don't offer that currently.
Such a shame ive never saw their service. Very good deal. I dont need a storage atm but ill idle idle like all my webhosting plans or vps
No worries.
Thanks for the quick reply.
Could you try using the storage box over rclone mount with SFTP backend? This is what I use for my immich setup and seems to be working well. This is my mount command for reference:
rclone mount --config $config --daemon --dir-cache-time 720h --poll-interval 0 --vfs-cache-mode writes photos: /mnt/photosYeah, this is exactly what I use at the moment (not yet for immich but for the book server) but having the storage and the container on two separate cloud instances bothers me a little bit, which is why I try to consolidate all of it.
waiting for BF with @hosthatch
Hostbrr have some storage vps offers running
That is excellent, I tool them up for their 4TB option. A little costly but very good so far. Thanks for that!
I'm using koofr as rclone backend for my Immich, works way faster than HostBrr 500G storage. I guess I will wait for BF deal for similar storage and ditch HostBrr.
Hey! I can offer a VM with a Ryzen CPU with a storage box on the same internal network, which would solve the connection issues between the two instances. The general pricing can be found here:
https://hstprov.com/index.php?rp=/store/pvds/pv-config
The storage box pricing is 0.50eu/100GB/mo.
I can offer a 20% discount on a yearly commitment.
Send me a DM if you are willing to give it a shot, a little trial period is no problem
Where is HostBrr slower for you, the disks or the network?
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I guess both. I've connected it to owncloud hosted on other vps and creating a folder easily timed out or takes around 7-8 seconds (both are unacceptable to me). So it's pretty much unusable for my use case.
Any review on this? Tempted to get one to try!
can you tell me setup? last time i tried that but host vps downloaded all files which kinda doesn't serve my purpose.
I also need this offer cheap VPS with large RAM and Storage.
using it as External storage -> local
https://doc.owncloud.com/server/next/admin_manual/configuration/files/external_storage/local.html
then linking it in immich?
Oops sorry I mistaken immich with owncloud (my other setup).
For immich you have to rclone mount koofr on local disk and then use it as a volume in immich docker compose. As for thumbnails I have them stored entirely on local disk because they load faster this way, almost similar to Google photos loading speed