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

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Post by fbcpck »

I frequently lurk on LowEndTalk forums; if you don't mind using vps from not-so-known providers, these are the two best storage vps deals on it:

» Time4VPS (https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/85707/)

1TB Storage for €48 bienially. Double the storage for double price.

» ZXHost (https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/85803/)

1TB Storage for €45 annually. Offer has ended though; but they might do it again in the future so I'll leave it here.

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Otherwise, go for kimsufi/ovh/soyoustart/hetzner/scaleway special offer dedicated servers. They are the cheapest you can get for non-random providers.

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

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Post by pella »

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

new Hetzner root servers: -

https://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver

- i7-6700 ; 32Gb - 64 GB ; HDD or SSD : from 46.41 € Price/Month + Once-off Setup Fee

or https://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-h...

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

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Post by AnkhMorporkian »

amdavidson wrote: post #49
AnkhMorporkian wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I get that you probably tweaked this a bit for posting, but I see a disconnect that is relevant to how I want to set this up. In the first line you mounted your whole Cloud Drive at /mnt/amazon_real. On the 3rd line you upload from /mnt/cache to /TV/. Do you actually have a subset of the cloud drive mounted at /mnt/amazon_real? I tried to do that some time ago with acd_cli but wasn't able.

Whoops. The truth is I have 2 cron jobs, one running on the hour to upload TV, and another 30 after to upload movies. I meant to simplify it to just syncing the entire thing for the post, but I neglected to do that properly.

I have not looked into only mounting a section of it.

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

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Post by AnkhMorporkian »

dhruvkar wrote: post #44
AnkhMorporkian wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

nice. so you read from ACD, because you're mainly writing to local? Or is there another reason for NOT reading from local? also, does local completely mirror ACD, or have you found a way around that?

It doesn't mirror it at all. The local stuff is only a temporary holding place for it to sit until it gets uploaded to ACD, at which point it is unceremoniously deleted. I have >10TB on my cloud drive, but I'm using <10GB on my hard drive.

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

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Post by kyriakos »

fbcpck wrote: post #51

I frequently lurk on LowEndTalk forums; if you don't mind using vps from not-so-known providers, these are the two best storage vps deals on it: » Time4VPS ( https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/85707/ ) 1TB Storage for €48 bienially. Double the storage for double price. » ZXHost ( https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/85803/ ) 1TB Storage for €45 annually. Offer has ended though; but they might do it again in the f…

have experience with OVH and Hetzner both companies offer a stable service and their prices look too good to be real (and yet they are real)

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

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Post by DanielStraight »

zazibar wrote: post #9

I highly recommend Scaleway. https://www.scaleway.com/

Looks like with their lowest tier bare metal server + 450 GB additional storage the total would be 11.99 Euros per month or $13.28 USD. And there wouldn't be transfer cost between server / storage.

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

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Post by AznHisoka »

walrus01 wrote: post #24
webtechgal wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

To be honest, that's also the same support level as the higher plans like SoYouStart and OVH. They don't manage or administrate your servers for you. You need knowledge. The good news is: it doesn't take much to be able to manage everything on your own.

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

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Post by Veratyr »

Depends more on your usage requirements:

- If you're basically just doing a backup and not reading data very often, Backblaze B2 is a good choice, as storage only costs 0.005$/GB (1TB is $5). However if you're reading kinda often, I'd recommend against it, as it's not the fastest to read and bandwidth is 5c/GB (it's mainly intended for backup use cases).

- If you're doing a backup and REALLY not reading data very often, Online.net's C14 is a good choice. Storage is only EUR 0.002/GB (EUR 2/TB) but reading/writing (known as "operation" on their pages) costs EUR 0.01/GB.

- If you need a decent/low latency network, I'd pay for Google Cloud Storage or something similar.

- If you're doing basically anything else, I'd recommend a server from Kimsufi (as you've found), SoYouStart, Online.net, Hetzner or OVH.

- If you're fine with something _really_ low end, another user pointed out time4vps.eu which offers the lowest cost online storage I've seen (EUR 0.002/GB) with RAM, a CPU and bandwidth attached.

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

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Post by kraftman »

webtechgal wrote: post #22
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?

I've had a few boxes from them for a few years, they've been pretty solid. Once I had a server go offline, I got an email from them saying they'd detected an issue, another 10 minutes later saying they'd found a problem with a network connector and it was fixed. I bought an extra server for a month once and the automated system had some issues which meant I didn't get the login info, took them about a day to fix it and get back to me.
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