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

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Post by snuxoll »

webtechgal wrote: post #25
DanielStraight wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Bandwidth into both B2 and DigitalOcean is free, bandwidth OUT of them is metered (or in the case of DO you get a bucket of bandwidth to start and then it's metered past that bucket).

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

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Post by AnkhMorporkian »

dhruvkar wrote: post #17
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 have the same issue. Running a Plex server (~6TB) at home, and thinking I need to put my media in a more accessible location. Are you using Amazon Drive as the one true source and syncing it locally to use with your Plex Server? Or are you pulling/streaming directly from ACD?

My setup is a little convoluted. I've found that using the write mount really slows me down, so I use a unionfs mount with the writes going to the local hard drive, and the cloud drive being the primary read source. Given that it's unionfs though, anything that I haven't synced will be read from the hard drive.

So the order goes: Sonarr/CouchPotato -> Local Hard Drive -> Amazon Cloud Drive -> Plex. I stream directly off the cloud drive for any file older than an hour, as that's my upload interval.

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

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Post by AnkhMorporkian »

some-guy wrote: post #29
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?

Recent versions of acd_cli have largely fixed all the issues I've had in the past. I've found that essentially all issues can be solved by not writing directly to the cloud drive, but using a unionfs and uploading on a cron job.

There is no 2gb limit that I have run into. I just checked and I have several >30GB videos uploaded to my cloud drive, so I can safely say there is no issue there.

Edit: For some completeness, here's how I have everything mounted and syncing.

  acdcli mount /mnt/amazon_real --interval 30000000 -ao --uid 112 --gid 118

  unionfs-fuse -o cow /mnt/cache=RW:/mnt/amazon_real=RO /mnt/amazon -o allow_other

  0 * * * * acdcli upload --remove-source-files /mnt/cache/* /TV/ --max-connections 10; acdcli sync
And that's it. The last one is a cronjob that runs every hour, if that wasn't obvious.

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

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Post by josefdlange »

some-guy wrote: post #29
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?

Former Cloud-Driver here. We launched a significant upgrade to the back-end just before I left, which technically speaking does not have the 2GB limit. That being said, I don't know if there aren't any artificial constraints. I was just responsible for the bits :D

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

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Post by some-guy »

josefdlange wrote: post #35
some-guy wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Former Cloud-Driver here. We launched a significant upgrade to the back-end just before I left, which technically speaking does not have the 2GB limit. That being said, I don't know if there aren't any artificial constraints. I was just responsible for the bits :D

Thanks for the reply. I use Cloud Drive more for archival purposes than anything else and up to this point I have been RARing my files into 1.5GB chunks.

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

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Post by ivank »

sandis wrote: post #36

I've been quite happy with Delimiter [1]. Cheap, but relatively beefy dedicated servers and S3-compatible object storage. You can use promo code B6NFT66YU7ZN to get 6% off in perpetuity (disclaimer: that's my affiliate code). [1] https://www.delimiter.com

My experience with Delimiter involved sending them a hard drive, not getting it installed in the "slot hosting" VPS I paid for, not getting any support tickets answered, then eventually getting my drive back three weeks later after complaining on a forum. Said forum then banned a Delimiter sales guy, partly for posting a barcode with my home address and other PI on it.

They are literally the worst hosting business I've ever dealt with, and I've used many of the low-end providers. OVH and online.net are miles better.

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

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Post by Bedon292 »

Just chiming in with my experience. I have several different servers for personal projects on various OVH properties. So Kimsufi, SoYouStart, and OVH proper. They have all been great. The VPS option at OVH was nice too. 100Mbit connection, several TB of bandwidth for $5 / month. Never ran into any issues with their services, and will continue to use them for everything. Much better deal than anything else I have found.
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