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backup servers
just wondering which provider do you guys go for your backup server? (where you keep your main server's data)
any Budget ones? ovh seems good but i would like USA BASED
Suggest me some USA based 
i dont really stick with my main provider for a 2nd server, would like somewhere else.
VD seems attractive. but many users had issues with them besides our lucky @Jack
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Datashack
OVH BHS is Canadian based: http://www.ovh.com/fr/serveurs_dedies/commande_usa_beta.xml
I KINDA lose faith with them their sales are not responding to me
Its nice that they release personal info.
that is nice.
how long did your server came online jack? setup time
Amazon AWS->S3. $43/month to store all of our data, at the moment. Very yes.
can it hold up to 1TB?
@Randy: It can hold up to several petabytes, as I recall.
http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html will give you a pricing breakdown. It's not low-end, though.
Dropbox stores all the user files on Amazon S3, so yes it will likely be able to hold any amount that you want to store.
As I recall, sending data to amazon was free, so, if you keep just sending backups, it´s free, isn't it?
@netomx I believe so although you'd be paying during the times you'd have your VPS turned on (its like 10 cents an hour or something).
Also if you needed to remove your backups, that's when the money comes into play.
well. i would rather get an other box for backups;-)
@HalfEatenPie
too cheap
Ovh kimsufi should be perfect for.backup servers if you are renting or may be hetzners backup server plans.
@netomx lol I wasn't really doing research but yeah that sounds good
http://aws.amazon.com/en/ec2/
and as I read on this blog: http://www.blackpepper.co.uk/black-pepper-blog/Using-Amazon-EC2-EBS-S3-for-automated-backups.html
you can use a script to turn on your macine, rsync, then shut off. So, maybe a dollar a month
Why do you want to use an EC2 instance for creating backups?
why not?
Monthly local backup encrypted and stored in a very safe place. Daily backups on a backup drive in the system. Weekly backups to buyvm and about to add hostigation. You can't beat hostigation $10 OpenVZ. Some serious storage there.
More money...
No the question is not "why not", the question is "why". I could also ask you "why not turn on your Microsoft Azure VM when making a backup to Amazon S3?"
specify more money - Example:
3 gb of data in my current server - $0.10 per GB-month of provisioned storage
1 hour of micro instance per month (just the 1st rsync will eat a lot of time) - $0,020
3 GB first month - $0,120 per GB
then, as rsync works, you can't use more than 1 GB, so this will be $0 after 1st month.
Total 1st month: $0.542 USD
To summarize: You want to to backups to Amazon S3 by launching an EC2 instance every time you do an backup and then rsync your files to the EC2 instance?
And you want to do, lets say, daily backups?
well, i don't want. It is just an idea, you know?
and, well, another backup is never enough
So you will be paying $2.4/month just for the EC2 instances.
There is simply no reason to use EC2 instances when you want to do backups to S3.
that, i don't know. How can we backup directly?
Just backup to it o0 API
There are also several tools for servers like Duply
ty! althought I hate python =P
S3 is independent from EC2. You don't need an EC2 VPS to utilise S3