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Re: Ask HN: Cheap dedicated hosting options for side projects

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Post by KJKingJ »

webtechgal wrote: post #14
walrus01 wrote: post #12

kimsufi = OVH , just FYI.

Thanks, yes, I actually found them via OVH only, but SO much cheaper than OVH!! The configs offered are much inferior, but okay for my requirements.

They also have their "SoYouStart" brand which sits halfway between their Kimsufi offerings and their normal OVH offerings.

It's also worth checking out online.net - like OVH, they also have a decent range of decently-spec'd-but-cheap servers on offer. Unlike OVH, they only have a single brand, but within that they go all the way from lightweight, ultra-cheap Atom-based servers all the way up to multi-CPU beasts.

Re: Ask HN: Cheap dedicated hosting options for side projects

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Post by webtechgal »

Hates_ wrote: post #13

I use Kimsufi for a load of small side projects. AFAIK they are decommissioned OVH servers. You lose RAID as well as some other features like fail-over IPs.

That's great, thanks!! How about uptime and support/response issues? Of course, I am not expecting any fancy support for < $10/mo., but just to know, have you had any issues and 1st-hand experiences?

Re: Ask HN: Cheap dedicated hosting options for side projects

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Post by DanielStraight »

davidverhasselt wrote: post #7

- If latency isn't an issue you could store your things on Backblaze [1] which is by far the cheapest storage I've found. - For my high-storage requirements I rent a dedicated Hetzner server with 2x3TB disks for around 30 euro/month [2] [1] https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html [2] https://robot.your-server.de/order/market/country/DE

Since the OP indicated elsewhere that the storage need not be local on the machine, Backblaze is almost certainly the best answer.

500 GB of Backblaze B2 storage is $2.50 / month

Pair that with a $5 DigitalOcean droplet and the need is met for a grand total of $7.50 / month.

Re: Ask HN: Cheap dedicated hosting options for side projects

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Post by walrus01 »

webtechgal wrote: post #14
walrus01 wrote: post #12

kimsufi = OVH , just FYI.

Thanks, yes, I actually found them via OVH only, but SO much cheaper than OVH!! The configs offered are much inferior, but okay for my requirements.

The primary difference being that kimsufi has basically no support, you're wholly responsible for whatever OS you're running on the box. The only support is 'wipe and start over'. If you're confident and OK with that it's a lower cost option.

Re: Ask HN: Cheap dedicated hosting options for side projects

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Post by webtechgal »

DanielStraight wrote: post #23
davidverhasselt wrote: post #7

- If latency isn't an issue you could store your things on Backblaze [1] which is by far the cheapest storage I've found. - For my high-storage requirements I rent a dedicated Hetzner server with 2x3TB disks for around 30 euro/month [2] [1] https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html [2] https://robot.your-server.de/order/market/country/DE

Since the OP indicated elsewhere that the storage need not be local on the machine, Backblaze is almost certainly the best answer. 500 GB of Backblaze B2 storage is $2.50 / month Pair that with a $5 DigitalOcean droplet and the need is met for a grand total of $7.50 / month.

Wow!!! DO being a favorite of mine, I will definitely try to explore this. My concern, however, is what about the bandwidth between DO and Backblaze? How would that count/work?

Re: Ask HN: Cheap dedicated hosting options for side projects

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Post by some-guy »

AnkhMorporkian wrote: post #8

Here's an option you might not have considered, but might be applicable, depending on the read/write speeds you need from those hundreds of gigabytes of data. Amazon has cloud drive, which costs something like 50 bucks a year, and has unlimited storage. The neat thing is someone created a FUSE file system called acd_cli that allows you to use the cloud drive as if it were a normal hard drive. The speeds aren't too sh…

I've tried this, but I've had sync issues in the past. Also have they gotten rid of their 2GB file upload limit?
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