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Recommended EU storage VPS / dedicated solution?
Greetings,
I'm skimming the market to build a small OwnCloud instance for our small business. Confessions from your personal experience is greatly appreciated.
DETAILS
• We are 3 employees and up to 5 anon collaborators;
• We use 300 GB of permanent data and up to 100 GB of temporary files that gets exchanged between us, therefore a space of 500GB or 1TB is needed;
• The average bandwidth is 500GB monthly and rarely 1TB (yes, 500GB);
• We're based in Romania and our collaborators are within EU;
• Our budget is a max. of 20 EUR VAT included
• We need a fast internet connection, maybe capped at a stable 3 - 5 MB/s (24 Mbps - 40 Mbps) REAL SPEED. On our side, reaching this speed will not be an issue since we get 1 - 3 MB/s with Japan or US East & West.
OFFERS
So far I've come to this:
• Backupsy, KVM VPS, NL, 500GB, 14 EUR
• Digicube, Dedicated, FR, 1 TB, 12EUR
• FirstHeberg, Dedicated, FR, 1 TB, ~16EUR
• Contabo, (KVM?) VPS, DE, 500GB, 8 EUR/month and +22EUR setup fee
• Kimsufi, Dedicated, FR, 1 TB, 12 EUR +12EUR setup fee
• VPSDime, OVZ VPS, various locations - currently EU not available, very slow speeds (d'oh, you pay bananas you get monkeys)
I'd go with Digicube. Anyone has experience to share with them?
Comments
I can highly recommend Kimsufi. Shit just works, no fuss, no aggro. I can't vouch for support as I've never had to contact them, but a couple of times when my server got stuck during a reboot, their automated system flagged it and it was dealt with within minutes.
Bad idea to use the budget dedicated servers with a single disk. Same with VPSDime & co.
I'm sure someone should be able to offer you a deal out of Voxility in Bucharest.
@Maounique ?
For business I also recommend to have some kind of redundancy. Well, because you know it's a business and having lost data is unacceptable.
Thanks for your concerns guys, but the data will be kept on our laptops & work PCs which means 3 locations anytime.
@Nekki
Thanks, Kimsufi is my 2nd option after Digicube (I'm just waiting for some LET's feedback first).
For your needs, I'd say Kimsufi is a good bet. I got in on the free 2TB upgrade action going on a couple months back, I have 2 currently - media server/btsync/backup space on one, other mirrors the first. Full port speed is always available - routing seems good in Europe, but can suck in NA. There are a few bottlenecks in their routes at times.
I'm going to get rid of my VPSDime storage plan in the UK - mostly because of the 2TB boxes I have on different continents - but I've had zero issues with it. I pushed a couple hundred gigs out at once, at 100-180mbps - I think it'd run OwnCloud just fine (if it were in stock).
I would go with @rds100 he has some nice value storage boxes; I know I have one!
@wych thanks for the mentions, but currently all our cheap Atom based servers are sold out, we have only the more expensive Haswell based ones left at the moment.
I recommend something INSIDE Romania - External you will be limited to your connections international speed, however on Romanian ISPs you can use Metropolitan or National speed which probably is 100Mbit and less congested than transit.
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Voxility?
Eugen, if you're going to read your tickets the same way you've read my original post, I pity your clients.