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Re: Ask HN: cloud data storage cheaper than AWS S3?

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Post by webmobdev »

rumanator wrote: post #29
webmobdev wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Linode, Pair and Rackspace are established players in this field. (Pair.com is the oldest I know of).

According to Wikipédia, OVH is the third largest hosting company in the world based on physical services and the largest hosting company in Europe. They are not a fly by night operation. And IMHO Hetzner is by far the best service provider there is for bare metal and plain old VM services.

Didn't know about OVH, thanks. A long time ago, I was advised to always first look at the age of the company when choosing a web host. (And then their financials and client base). I've found this advise to be a solid one. A lot of web hosting companies fold up ...

Re: Ask HN: cloud data storage cheaper than AWS S3?

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Post by tyingq »

You don't mention how much data. At some size point, a cheap storage server and minio (open source s3 compatible) might be a better value.

At the low end, OVH has a 4×4TB HDD SATA + 1×500GB SSD NVMe server for ~$90/month.

Of course, you have to configure and administer it, so not for everyone.

Re: Ask HN: cloud data storage cheaper than AWS S3?

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Post by FlyingAvatar »

codegeek wrote: post #33
stu2010 wrote: post #6

If you can tolerate risk of data loss, VPS or even physical hosts are likely to be far cheaper than any cloud. Look at OVH, Hetzner, Linode, DigitalOcean.

"Risk of data loss". Is there anything that guarantees no data loss or zero risk ?

The risk profile of storing something in S3, where your data is stored in at least three different Availability Zones is completely different than a Managed Server or VPS where, if you so chose, it might be stored without any redundancy at all.

Re: Ask HN: cloud data storage cheaper than AWS S3?

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Post by invisiblerobot »

TrueNomad wrote: post #16
invisiblerobot wrote: post #9

s3 may be cheaper than you think. If you're willing to tolerate hr+ delays in accessing your data aws glacier deep archive is 70cents per terabyte month. that's pretty awesome in my book. If you need to access the data in under an hr it comes out around $2 per TB/mo

I am not sure if you are calculating this correctly but for me, 70 cent/TB/mo is not a realistic number. Cheapest glacier storage for me, is, $0.004 per gb per mo, which makes a terabyte storage for $4/TB per mo.For me, this number is at Ohio or Oregon data centers. And their retrieval rates are super expensive, as in, $0.03 per gb. Glacier might be cheap but it definitely is not the cheapest.

no cheapest deep archive is 0.0007 per gb month, or 70 cents per tb/mo

note they've recently reduced their pricing so you might be looking at old marketing. But my latest bill charged me 0.0007

you're right of course that retrieval in an out is much more expensive and so prob not a great fit for your usecase

Re: Ask HN: cloud data storage cheaper than AWS S3?

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Post by celerrimus »

I assume that everything depends on: - how much storage you need, - how long you need it to store this, - if this data easy reproducible.

Generally storage isn't cheap, and cloud storage is quite expensive in the long run. If you need storage for more that a year, I would invest in own local HDDs - put to your PC or buy used NAS server or PC. You will benefit with much better performance and this would be the most cost effective solution.

Keep in mind that often transfer to cheap cloud storage is slow, I tried to keep my backup in few different providers, it could take literally months to upload 6TB of data. Also keep in mind that you may be charged for data transfer separately, for every data access, so cloud cost may be much higher than expected.

If you plan use this in shorter periods, I would go with OVH offer - they probably have best quality/cost ratio. Depending on your needs I would suggest buying dedicated storage server, or use their Data Storage (3x replicated $0.0112/month/GB, plus outgoing transfer - $0.011/GB). They also have cold storage for about $0.0023/month/GB.

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