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@labze By looking into comments, performance etc, StorageBox is not suitable for high frequency I/O operations, instead it will be good place for backup, low frequent access.
In other way, it may not be linked to web app which serve content to users /static assets etc. Instead useful to dumb the Database, logs, personal photos etc.
It was tempting for me, I am cooling down not to buy with misunderstanding and criticize later.
Does Storage VPS would be better option for high performance, freq access? Curious to understand whether StorageBox Backend and Storage VPS storages are same architecture?
I need a solid stuffs for Minio/https, which will be accessed by analytics engine, number of reads will be parallel.
edit: not for production workload, just for me and my students while learning stuffs
HDD storage is probably not what you should be after then. Even if it's cached.
Just go for NVMe servers at that point, those are literally made for high frequency and fast access.
Short answer: the storage box (which is basically webhosting) is not the right tool for learning about minio etc, get a "proper" VPS with SSD storage for this.
Long answer: you can technically run minio on the storage box, and it should work okay. However, it is not a full Linux system with services, package manager and background tasks like you normally know it, but a very limited Linux environment where you have to manually get all programs as binaries and take steps so that your programs don't get killed after a few minutes. Also you have no control over ports, no TLS termination and no sudo. So if you want to have fun solving tricky Linux puzzles, then you can run minio etc on the storage box, but if you want to get actually valuable real world experience, then please get a real VPS where you can run as root and just apt-get packages and have daemons run reliably.
Edit: so I would suggest starting with a normal VPS, even SSD should be good enough to get started, and if you then want to go to the advanced level of tiered storage and caching, you can then still get the storage box, mount it with
rclone mountand experiment with - - vfs-cache-mode, to have both fast and large storage.@Cantello yes, you can sftp/scp/rsyc etc.
how much time are you guys taking for allocation, instant or manual approval?
it has
They've said up to 24 hours. Manual.
Well, ordered mine (invoice 39655) on November 24th, and my storage box is still on pending. Unless I've been skipped it's definitely more than 24 hours. I wonder if I should start opening a ticket.
Hopefully should be setup today. Unfortunately I discovered too late that when a order is made in Blesta it already assigns it a specific DirectAdmin server and this cannot be changed. So I have to manually create every single pending order all over which were created before the new server was setup. This is very time consuming.
Take care of yourself too brother. We all understand how hectic it can get so no worries. Take your time.
What's wrong with SMR? Just curious
Yes, @labze , take things easy, you're doing a good job. It sounds time consuming, and I hope people have and keep their patience, it's appreciated
Could anyone explain how? Have never used DirectAdmin and am a little bit stumped on how to enable SSH for SFTP or rsync... TA!
You have received an ssh port allocated to you in the email. Use it + ip + username...you can use WinSCP, Filezilla or any other SFTP client.
It is fine for single-user scenario until the disk is not too full. For example using for backups, or just archiving media from time to time.
But if you hammer it with random writes in a multi-user RAID environment, the latency will be in the moon and the throughput will be unusably low too.
I ordered today, waiting #6747039a40ee3
@labze is this stackable? Can i get double IOPS?
how long does the setup on the EPYC Storage VPS take?
ordered Dec 24, #39638
i tried to read about the post but its mostly on the DA space
thanks
The boy's got his hands full now, have patience. ^
For me its was instant
You are totally right, I should read emails until the end!
Thanks for the tip. I didn't know
rclone mountintegrated with the VFS cache so well. This convinced me to pull the trigger on the DA storage offerHoly cow, has it been that long?
StorageBox 500 GB
Disk Space 0 B / 500 GB
Bandwidth 0 B / 2.44 TB
Inode 0 / Unlimited
E-Mails 0 / 2
FTP Accounts 0 / Unlimited
Databases 0 / Unlimited
Any specific reason to limit email id count?
I can't find the comment, but @labze mentioned since e-mail wasn't an advertised feature of the service, it isn't even set-up in the server.
I think since DA automatically creates a default email address, he just set it to 2 (1 for the default mail, 1 for just-in-case slot) to not break anything
Is NextCloud the easiest and simplest replacement for Google Drive/Photos?
Curious if people have any other preferences/experience with different providers
immich would be closer to google photos
Can only be installed through docker tho. It's also got the scary header. Not really reassuring that even its makers aren't confident it won't break.
Seems the storage box is much stable now.
Probably need 1-2 more weeks before performance is restored, right now it takes me 10s to open a 1kb text file xD