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Storage Box -- or Seedbox; What do you look for?
PulsedMedia
Member, Patron Provider
in General
Storage Boxes and Seedboxes
What is the number one thing you look for on either of these?
Is it specific software support? redundancy?
What is THE storage box you'd like to have?
on the seedboxes, what is the resource you most carefully look for?
Do you need just basic software, or more advanced (docker etc.)?
Comments
Seedbox
2-4 TB, if no parity/mirroring raid => cheaper
OS SSD/Nvme (20ish+ GB)
decent CPU, being able to transcode 1 1080p stream (personal jellyfin usage basically)
4GB+ ram
Own ISO or debian possible
EU location
Calin and Hostslick offered this (max specs) for ~50-60€/y, with raid
Mostly CPU is the major problem I'd guess
Personally i put my backups on multiple providers. I dont really care about redundancy then but of course it gets a bit more expensive this way.
Software support? As long as it had FTP im happy xD
Personally i like Hetzners Storage Boxes very much
And about seedboxes personally i only need most basic stuff, qbittorrent, transmission rutorrent or deluge. those should be at least supported. i love swizzin script install those.
on seedboxes i very much like how feralhosting has done it. very impressive setup
and seedboxes usually need hdd storage non redundant, usually not horrible on dataloss in case its not last seed x)
cpu is something to look for though, has to be fairly good at least id say 4-8c of a basic cpu like xeon e5 or xeon gold
ram i dont get usage over 2gb even lmao
bandwidth is high need. seeders usually need all they can get
zero knowledge cloud storage
For me the things to prioritize is stability and the network, fast disks, uptime, huge bandwidth and docker support will be just "plus".
tar | gpg | cat >> $(sha256) ....
Does it even exist? Apart from flashy marketing words on the website.
I guess it depends on how you define the zero part. Some E2E storage solution is certainly possible but beyond that it gets tricky. Zero knowledge of a paying client? Maybe... with crypto payments. Zero knowledge in regards to connecting IPs? Maybe... if the service sits behind TOR. Zero knowledge in regards to what gets stored where? Maybe... with some kind of fancy storage protocol.
I'm not sure if that covers all bases but in any case there's a lot of maybes and in the end it might be simpler to just insert into Freenet. Anything involving managing the data on the server side is pretty much out of the picture anyways due to the possibility of revealing information.
Probably the hosted does not know who is storing and what is stored.
Exactly!