There are lies, damned lies and statistics benchmarks:

this is real troublesome considering the fees they charge

Yes, you're putting limits that haven't been advertised as such. Do recall, this was a provider screw up preventing operation. Every server made after that point might also get borked. Delaying respon

I don't see much of that. DO is usually well regarded. Linode has had multiple security breaches and Vultr has done some misleading advertising but all these VM's generally work pretty well. Lunano

Aren't patience and respect some kind of value, too?

You're talking about servers like Backblaze uses which are really high in storage density but extremely low in compute power comparatively. No VPS provider would be able to sell enough VPSs on a box l

+1 for ultraVPS.eu in general if you're considering options in Germany. There is an English language version of their site: https://www.ultravps.eu/en/

This offer is invalid now, also the affiliate promo only removes 5 euro from the setup fee which is predominantly useless as most of their products don't have a setup fee.

If for some reason you're unable to avail @AnthonySmith's offer above or want more resources or a higher end KVM, I suggest you take a look at Germany based Netcup's Easter Offer:

Have been reading this amazing forum for a while, now need an advice.

No, not at all. My context was the storage market (and price!) situation and the much liked cheap storage dedis (which tend to be always sold out). And my target group was normal people and (really sm

I thank everyone for the indications, opinions and experience that you share with me.

I am unsure if @jsg is considering this as a paid backup service for peanuts but, unfortunately, the only way to properly gauge the validity of this as a business idea is to build it and see how many

You have some weird standards for what you think is safe for disks, even in a raid.

Indeed, nothing to lose by asking but all disks will have errors. That has been my experience. Considering the hours on yours (60k) and the amount of read error (2k), I'd say it's actually pretty good

Thank you. Another point not yet mentioned is the relativity of time: compared to a large Raid array recovery uploading a backup with say 5 Mb/s is not a problem.

A current topic in the Cest Pit reminded me to do some calculations. It's about a quite attractive storage server offer from ServDiscount that comes with 4 x 6 TB disks plus a small SSD (for the OS, e

@kalimov622 - I see.

@uptime, exactly. OVH has been great so far for me but I have no experience with their VPS range and I'm not sure how stable they are and if they reboot their servers often for example. I've read some

I currently have an OVH dedi but I want to cut down some of the costs since my app barely uses 2 to 4 GB of RAM and 1 CPU core anyway and I was recently looking for alternatives that would bring me th