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philwatcher · December 2025

@Motion3549 said:

How did you do it? I would love to do so as well but was too stupid to figure it out.

I used SQlite in the past for ease of backups, although JuiceFS does periodic metadata dumps as well. I tried Redis (valkey) for performance, found no difference but using Redis I can mount the FS from several machines at the same time - I use it to backup my files on my homeserver, as mentioned above. I think it makes no difference, the performance bottleneck will be the speed to the storagebox.

I thought about using MySQL as metadata DB and store that on the storagebox MySQL instance, so that all data is on one machine and I don't have two points of failure, only one. Depending on your latency from the VPS to the storage box, this may suck hard however.
eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
ssh-add .ssh/id_rsa
echo $SSH_AGENT_PID
@Motion3549 said:

How did you do it? I would love to do so as well but was too stupid to figure it out.

I used SQlite in the past for ease of backups, although JuiceFS does periodic metadata dumps as well. I tried Redis (valkey) for performance, found no difference but using Redis I can mount the FS from several machines at the same time - I use it to backup my files on my homeserver, as mentioned above. I think it makes no difference, the performance bottleneck will be the speed to the storagebox.

I thought about using MySQL as metadata DB and store that on the storagebox MySQL instance, so that all data is on one machine and I don't have two points of failure, only one. Depending on your latency from the VPS to the storage box, this may suck hard however.
eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
ssh-add .ssh/id_rsa
echo $SSH_AGENT_PID

What did you enter as secret key in JuiceFS?

Motion3549 · December 2025

@philwatcher said:
@Motion3549 said:

How did you do it? I would love to do so as well but was too stupid to figure it out.

I used SQlite in the past for ease of backups, although JuiceFS does periodic metadata dumps as well. I tried Redis (valkey) for performance, found no difference but using Redis I can mount the FS from several machines at the same time - I use it to backup my files on my homeserver, as mentioned above. I think it makes no difference, the performance bottleneck will be the speed to the storagebox.

I thought about using MySQL as metadata DB and store that on the storagebox MySQL instance, so that all data is on one machine and I don't have two points of failure, only one. Depending on your latency from the VPS to the storage box, this may suck hard however.
eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
ssh-add .ssh/id_rsa
echo $SSH_AGENT_PID
@Motion3549 said:

How did you do it? I would love to do so as well but was too stupid to figure it out.

I used SQlite in the past for ease of backups, although JuiceFS does periodic metadata dumps as well. I tried Redis (valkey) for performance, found no difference but using Redis I can mount the FS from several machines at the same time - I use it to backup my files on my homeserver, as mentioned above. I think it makes no difference, the performance bottleneck will be the speed to the storagebox.

I thought about using MySQL as metadata DB and store that on the storagebox MySQL instance, so that all data is on one machine and I don't have two points of failure, only one. Depending on your latency from the VPS to the storage box, this may suck hard however.
eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
ssh-add .ssh/id_rsa
echo $SSH_AGENT_PID
What did you enter as secret key in JuiceFS?

You do not, only access-key.

dannychou · December 2025

Invoice #77801

I bought a "StorageBox 500 GB", it shows PENDING, why?

zejjnt · December 2025

@dannychou said:
Invoice #77801

I bought a "StorageBox 500 GB", it shows PENDING, why?

Manual activation, Labze MIA. Hope he comes back any second now because this is starting to worry as he is always really fast.

philwatcher · December 2025

@Fritz said:

Please share the steps.

Here you go:

### Step 0: install JuiceFS. Either download the binary and place it into e.g. /usr/local/nin or ~/.local/bin or any other $PATH location or run the following command:
curl -sSL https://d.juicefs.com/install | sh -

### You will be asked for a password to encrypt the key.
### Remember this, as you will have to set the
### environment variable later to be able to mount your filesystem:
openssl genrsa -out juicefs_key.pem -aes256 2048

### on the STORAGEBOX, create a folder where you store the data chunks:
### e.g.:
ssh [email protected] -p $YOUR_SSH_PORT
mkdir ~/juicefs_data

### some options:
### set the cache size as large as you can afford
CACHE_SIZE_MB=50000

### You can set the size of the fuse filesystem here, so that 
### e.g. df or duf will report the correct size and usage.
FILESYSTEM_SIZE_GB=900

### trash-days: I set it to zero so that if I delete a file, its chunks
### are immediately removed from the storagebox and not kept around.

### Database: sqlite3 should be performant enough for a cloud-mounted
### filesystem and is the easiest to setup. You can migrate between
### the different DB backends later

### If you set up a private/public key pair, you don't need to add a password.
### If you want to login with the SSH password, add the following line to the juicefs format command:
### --secret-key=$YOUR_SSH_PASSWORD

export JFS_RSA_PASSPHRASE=whatever_you_set_it_to_when_calling_openssl_genrsa
juicefs format \
--storage sftp \
--bucket https://ftpde1.hostypanel.com/:$YOUR_SSH_PORT:juicefs_data/ \
--access-key $YOUR_USERNAME \
--encrypt-rsa-key juicefs_key.pem \
--compress lz4 \
--capacity $FILESYSTEM_SIZE_GB \
--trash-days 0 \
sqlite3://juicefs_sftp.db \
juicefs-sftp

### on your LOCAL SYSTEM, create a mountpoint:
mkdir ~/juicefs_sftp

### You may have to set user_allow_others in /etc/fuse.conf
### if you run into permission problems.
juicefs mount --writeback --upload-delay 10 --cache-size $CACHE_SIZE_MB sqlite3://juicefs_sftp.db juicefs_sftp

yitiantiandeshuo · December 2025

It's such a shame that I only discovered this provider now. When I realized I had missed the flash sale, I looked back and found that I had also missed the Black Friday deals. With hardware prices rising, will we still meet again next year? 😭

JabJab · December 2025

@dannychou said:
Invoice #77801

I bought a "StorageBox 500 GB", it shows PENDING, why?

Skill issues, lack of reading skills. From first post.

@labze said: Service activation
We are manually activating orders so please allow up to 24 hours for service activation.

labze · December 2025

@zejjnt said:

@dannychou said:
Invoice #77801

I bought a "StorageBox 500 GB", it shows PENDING, why?

Manual activation, Labze MIA. Hope he comes back any second now because this is starting to worry as he is always really fast.

I am lurking. Just dealing with a lot of tickets. The sales has been wildly successful, but the downside is the ticket queue. I am working my way towards it and not opening new deals until all is resolved.

Unfortunately a large portion of tickets are in the "emergency" for people who want to get a offer that isn't available anymore or have minor issues. It screws up the ticket handling quite a lot.

memok · December 2025

@labze
Are you planning to add stock?
And is there any stock in the future?
It's been 3 days since you made your promise.
Do you plan to allow new users to place orders?

zejjnt · December 2025

@labze said:

@zejjnt said:

@dannychou said:
Invoice #77801

I bought a "StorageBox 500 GB", it shows PENDING, why?

Manual activation, Labze MIA. Hope he comes back any second now because this is starting to worry as he is always really fast.

I am lurking. Just dealing with a lot of tickets. The sales has been wildly successful, but the downside is the ticket queue. I am working my way towards it and not opening new deals until all is resolved.

Unfortunately a large portion of tickets are in the "emergency" for people who want to get a offer that isn't available anymore or have minor issues. It screws up the ticket handling quite a lot.

I am unfortunately one of those; although it is for a €62 debit that I got a HTTP error 405 when I tried to cancel. Thanks for the status update.

kainjinez · December 2025

hi what is the use case of the JuiceFS? Will it provide endpoints for s3 api?

x1arch · December 2025

@labze said:

@zejjnt said:

@dannychou said:
Invoice #77801

I bought a "StorageBox 500 GB", it shows PENDING, why?

Manual activation, Labze MIA. Hope he comes back any second now because this is starting to worry as he is always really fast.

I am lurking. Just dealing with a lot of tickets. The sales has been wildly successful, but the downside is the ticket queue. I am working my way towards it and not opening new deals until all is resolved.

Unfortunately a large portion of tickets are in the "emergency" for people who want to get a offer that isn't available anymore or have minor issues. It screws up the ticket handling quite a lot.

You need to update your order system, it very disappointed when you order a service by sale price, but got a full price invoice. After order confirmation process customer should have time to fill all fields which you set as mandatory without rush.

barbaros · December 2025

@x1arch said:

@labze said:

@zejjnt said:

@dannychou said:
Invoice #77801

I bought a "StorageBox 500 GB", it shows PENDING, why?

Manual activation, Labze MIA. Hope he comes back any second now because this is starting to worry as he is always really fast.

I am lurking. Just dealing with a lot of tickets. The sales has been wildly successful, but the downside is the ticket queue. I am working my way towards it and not opening new deals until all is resolved.

Unfortunately a large portion of tickets are in the "emergency" for people who want to get a offer that isn't available anymore or have minor issues. It screws up the ticket handling quite a lot.

You need to update your order system, it very disappointed when you order a service by sale price, but got a full price invoice. After order confirmation process customer should have time to fill all fields which you set as mandatory without rush.

That happens on WHMCS also. I'm not saying Blesta is good (it's shit) but probably they are not designed for 100 people ordering 1 stock product at the same time.

So yeah all order panels charge or creates invoice with full amount when the coupon is used up.

x1arch · December 2025

@barbaros said:

@x1arch said:

@labze said:

@zejjnt said:

@dannychou said:
Invoice #77801

I bought a "StorageBox 500 GB", it shows PENDING, why?

Manual activation, Labze MIA. Hope he comes back any second now because this is starting to worry as he is always really fast.

I am lurking. Just dealing with a lot of tickets. The sales has been wildly successful, but the downside is the ticket queue. I am working my way towards it and not opening new deals until all is resolved.

Unfortunately a large portion of tickets are in the "emergency" for people who want to get a offer that isn't available anymore or have minor issues. It screws up the ticket handling quite a lot.

You need to update your order system, it very disappointed when you order a service by sale price, but got a full price invoice. After order confirmation process customer should have time to fill all fields which you set as mandatory without rush.

That happens on WHMCS also. I'm not saying Blesta is good (it's shit) but probably they are not designed for 100 people ordering 1 stock product at the same time.

So yeah all order panels charge or creates invoice with full amount when the coupon is used up.

Not shure, but some providers find the way to lock it for you, while you fill the nessesary data.

zongyouxiao · December 2025

Threadripper Performance Special out of stock.

zejjnt · December 2025

@x1arch said:

@labze said:

@zejjnt said:

@dannychou said:
Invoice #77801

I bought a "StorageBox 500 GB", it shows PENDING, why?

Manual activation, Labze MIA. Hope he comes back any second now because this is starting to worry as he is always really fast.

I am lurking. Just dealing with a lot of tickets. The sales has been wildly successful, but the downside is the ticket queue. I am working my way towards it and not opening new deals until all is resolved.

Unfortunately a large portion of tickets are in the "emergency" for people who want to get a offer that isn't available anymore or have minor issues. It screws up the ticket handling quite a lot.

You need to update your order system, it very disappointed when you order a service by sale price, but got a full price invoice. After order confirmation process customer should have time to fill all fields which you set as mandatory without rush.

That doesn't happen if the order goes through successfully, at least it didn't when everything worked last year, so I think there's something else going on there.

zephyr32 · December 2025

When I'm trying to mount with webdav in rclone i get an error for zend opcache restricted by restrict.api in php. Anyone managed to use webdav through rclone? In android webdav works fine

zejjnt · December 2025

@zephyr32 said:
When I'm trying to mount with webdav in rclone i get an error for zend opcache restricted by restrict.api in php. Anyone managed to use webdav through rclone? In android webdav works fine

Cool, I found the one person who uses WebDAV. I have no idea, why that specifically?

x1arch · December 2025

@zejjnt said:

@zephyr32 said:
When I'm trying to mount with webdav in rclone i get an error for zend opcache restricted by restrict.api in php. Anyone managed to use webdav through rclone? In android webdav works fine

Cool, I found the one person who uses WebDAV. I have no idea, why that specifically?

WebDAV by default supported by many applications, why not?

zephyr32 · December 2025

@zejjnt said:

@zephyr32 said:
When I'm trying to mount with webdav in rclone i get an error for zend opcache restricted by restrict.api in php. Anyone managed to use webdav through rclone? In android webdav works fine

Cool, I found the one person who uses WebDAV. I have no idea, why that specifically?

Lol. Maybe I'm just used to it. But some clouds only support webdav for external connections.

ItsHass · December 2025

CPanel whm reseller ? Any deals for @labze

rungkadmen · December 2025

any chance Threadripper will be restocked?

dannychou · December 2025

Does the "StorageBox 500 GB" support ssh/sftp/rsync? I hate FTP.

rungkadmen · December 2025

@dannychou said:
Does the "StorageBox 500 GB" support ssh/sftp/rsync? I hate FTP.

Yes.

dannychou · December 2025

@rungkadmen said:

@dannychou said:
Does the "StorageBox 500 GB" support ssh/sftp/rsync? I hate FTP.

Yes.

So what is the port? 2200? 2222?

rungkadmen · December 2025

@dannychou said:

@rungkadmen said:

@dannychou said:
Does the "StorageBox 500 GB" support ssh/sftp/rsync? I hate FTP.

Yes.

So what is the port? 2200? 2222?

Check your email service activation, scroll down to Connection info

dannychou · December 2025

@rungkadmen said:

@dannychou said:

@rungkadmen said:

@dannychou said:
Does the "StorageBox 500 GB" support ssh/sftp/rsync? I hate FTP.

Yes.

So what is the port? 2200? 2222?

Check your email service activation, scroll down to Connection info

Oh! Sorry, my mistake.
Thank you!

rohitsingh1333 · December 2025

@x1arch man, I have mounted storage box with rclone mount using ftp, everything is perfect initially, the speeds are as expected, it goes upto 40MBps but after about half to one hour, spontaneously on immich the download speed reduces to 1-2MBps.

Could find the reason behind it.

Is it throttling or rclone related issue?

x1arch · December 2025

@rohitsingh1333 said:
@x1arch man, I have mounted storage box with rclone mount using ftp, everything is perfect initially, the speeds are as expected, it goes upto 40MBps but after about half to one hour, spontaneously on immich the download speed reduces to 1-2MBps.

Could find the reason behind it.

Is it throttling or rclone related issue?

Reduced and stay small all the time or back? Is reconnect helps? Try to change ftp to sftp or some else supported protocol.

rohitsingh1333 · December 2025

Red> @x1arch said:

@rohitsingh1333 said:
@x1arch man, I have mounted storage box with rclone mount using ftp, everything is perfect initially, the speeds are as expected, it goes upto 40MBps but after about half to one hour, spontaneously on immich the download speed reduces to 1-2MBps.

Could find the reason behind it.

Is it throttling or rclone related issue?

Reduced and stay small all the time or back? Is reconnect helps? Try to change ftp to sftp or some else supported protocol.

Reduced and stay reduced until I reconnect.

Once I reconnect it works great again.

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