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Req: VPS with 2TB HDD for $30/year
I'm looking for a "hail mary" VPS that would be a backup of a backup basically, so if everything else hit the fan, then everything else hit the second fan (somehow), then I'd switch the DNS and this VPS would temporarily serve web sites while I restore the main servers.
Ideally, it would have a decent CPU speed in case that scenario ever played out, but ~ 99% of the time, it'll be sitting idle.
It needs 2TB of storage (HDD is fine).
Must be legal adult-friendly.
Must be in the United States.
The budget is $30/year.
Thanks in advance.
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We are running a IPv6 only storage VPS special offer starting from just $28.56/yr for a 1c1g VPS with 1TB storage, but if required, we can customize a deal for you with a 1c1g VPS with 2TB storage at $40.00/year (note, it will not have any IPv4).
The server is located in US.
Legal adult-friendly content is permitted
PM me for order link if interested
I'll do it for you, if we can pick the US location.
We have some spare storage capacity sitting unused, that we can use for this.
Some revenue on it is better than no revenue... ;-)
Just reach out to us at [email protected] or DM on LET.
~ SMARTHOST
I appreciate the response. Unfortunately, that's not a good fit for hosting a publicly available website.
If you route your publicly available website via Cloudflare, it really doesn't make any difference whether or not you have a IPv4 attached to the VPS.
However, in case IPv4 is important, we can add it for $2/month ($24/year).
Total $64/year
Appreciate the info. I see that could work, but I'm not trying to add another moving part in case this VPS actually needed to be kicked in. — I find myself sometimes using a free service like no-ip.com and then next time I think about it, it's canceled because I didn't log in.
How can DNS be another moving part? You don’t use a DNS service today?
DNS with WAF like Cloudflare is awesome. Don’t sleep on it.
I don’t like IPv6 only stuff anyway, so I’m not saying get it, I’m just saying don’t sleep on Cloudflare with its DNS, WAF & CDN.
I'm using cloudflare tunnels for all my self-hosted tools. Working totally flawless
My only experience with CloudFlare has been error pages and annoyingly having to prove I'm a human to access some websites. I understand the need for proving human for submitting a form, but I just find the prove human to access static content annoying.
I meant the middleman of CloudFlare as another moving part with DNS. Right now, it's just update to point to the new IP. If CloudFlare's also involved, it's making sure that part is working as well.
You set your own anti bot level in Cloudflare. Those websites have likely enabled special rules or a higher anti bot level. It’s not Cloudflare per se.
And you shouldn’t see error pages unless your webserver responds to Cloudflare with an error, unless you configured something very wrong.
If I’m being honest you don’t seem to really understand the product, and that’s fine, but its value is insane.
No offense taken. I honestly also just don't like the idea of a middleman. I traditionally deal with adult content, and every added piece is one more thing that can potentially go wrong. Sure, it might be fine now, but companies change policies for no rhyme or reason sometimes. (i.e. see the discussion about iDrive e2 changing egress limits on accounts that are already prepaid in full).
I did look into CloudFlare DNS a while back when I was switching web hosts for a group of websites, and it just felt overly cumbersome. I'm sure it's got a lot of power in the details, but I just haven't had a need for the extras, and again, another middleman.
I do appreciate your response, though.
So the price you asked for is unrealistic for everything you expect to get. Although sometimes there are such deals here it’s not something you’ll get on a silver platter.
In full agreement with @emgh and @gbzret4d , cloudflare is a powerful tool being offered for free and the "prove yourself to be a human" is just another feature being offered, that can be disabled from their portal.
As far as the number of changes, to kick in the new server are concerned, if you make cloudflare your primary DNS manager, here also all you'll need to do is simply change one IP to change pointing to the server. So in spirit you still achieve what you require, within the budget you require.
Rest obviously @CoolGeek the decision remains yours.
AFAIK, Cloudflare will only bother you if your site contains pirated adult material. They don't care about actual legal porn.
With that being said, I think your budget is a bit too low for the requirements. Especially if you are going to be hosting adult content as not a lot of hosts like that stuff, even if it's fully legal.
Did you miss that response above from SmartHost?
And, for whatever it's worth, DediRock had a 2TB for $27/year promo recently, too.
SmartHost made it clear that if he gives you that price it won’t be for profit. The promos you’re talking about come in limited quantities, you need to keep track and find them in time as providers normally won't chase after you to get them.
Anyway I wish you good luck.
It's pretty clear it is pirated and/or he is serving malware. I wouldn't offer services to this guy if I was a provider.
@TimboJones thanks for illustrating my point about avoiding unnecessary middlemen. Countless people post on L.E.T. daily looking for DMCA ignored providers, but I post specifically looking for a VPS in the U.S. for legal adult content, and you, who has no stake in this whatsoever, have somehow concluded what I'm serving is pirated and/or malware and I should be avoided. That makes no sense whatsoever, but thankfully, I don't have you as an unnecessary middleman.
@farsighter SmartHost did not make it clear that if he gives me that price it won't be for a profit. You're concluding that all by yourself. Think of it like an apartment community. If upkeep/maintenance/taxes/etc. cost the landlord $100/apartment/month, then an empty apartment loses money. An apartment renting for his ideal rent of $500/month makes him $400 per month. If he rents another one that would have otherwise sat empty for $300/month, he still makes $200/month on that apartment. He just makes less. SmartHost said some revenue is better than no revenue with a winking face, and even clarified that he has "some spare storage capacity sitting unused."
And while I have no issue with SmokyHosts, he thanked farsighter's "unrealistic price" post, which I take to mean he's of that same mindset. SmokyHosts prices are not competitive by any means. I haven't followed him since his first offer on L.E.T., but it got outright mockery from a lot of people at how terrible it was. I remember it was so bad that I mentally put him in the "don't even bother checking out his future offers" category. For this, I graciously declined SmokyHosts offer, which did not meet my request in multiple ways. That's the end of it. It doesn't mean my expectations are unrealistic. It doesn't mean I'm doing something illegal.
I've got to say, some of the comments in this thread are ridiculous.
Great benefit of Cloudflare is you can change A-records almost instantly since clients can’t really cache the old records as they don’t know them.
CoolGeek 'cost recovery' != 'profit,' and you’re giving yourself a lot of credit with that apartment analogy, claiming that owner 'makes less' by renting it out for $500 instead of $300, when in your case it would actually be like renting it out for $100 which barely covers costs.
You’re either clueless about hosting providers costs or just looking for a provider to get down on their knees to host a backup for your XXX site (a site you’re probably making money from one way or another) anf jump at this chance... That’s why your approach is wrong.
Your site isn't a commercial business.
You want to avoid Cloudflare and middle men.
You don't care about speed, performance or SLA. Even for a rarely used fallback option.
So yes, I'm making the assumption that a non-commercial porn website is serving malware, just like every other free porn site.