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

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Post by dhruvkar »

AnkhMorporkian wrote: post #54
dhruvkar wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Great! Going to give this a try.

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

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Post by webtechgal »

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…

Wow!! I actually have a 20GB instance with Time4VPS, that I had found via an ad on LowEndTalk last year. I think I paid some Euro 9 or something for the WHOLE YEAR!! Other than an annoying glitch that causes the space allocation to drop down to 10GB instead of 20GB at random, it has been working quite well too.

However, I didn't know they had had the 1TB offer - I'll put in a ticket there asking them to let me know if/when it comes up again. Thanks for the info.

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

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Post by yurymik »

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?

Please keep in mind that Amazon is running a variant of content-id and may mistakenly think that your files are infringing someones rights:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/4j7wex/any_plex_users... https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/4j5fsi/after_s...

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

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Post by shimon_e »

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?

Use their VPS. Not oversold. Latest CPU. ECC RAM. RAID storage. Was $3/m with their 30% off promo recently. Put a single service on a single VPS. Order a few extra. Will make testing things much easier.

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

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Post by Hates_ »

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?

Uptime has been 100% as far as I can tell and their help and response to issues have been good too. They were really good assisting me in getting drive replaced on my main OVH server as well as setting up the failover IPs between that and a backup Kimsufi one (that was before they stopped offering failover to kimsufi ones).

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

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Post by jackson23 »

zzcworld wrote: post #26

In the U.S, you can use WholeSaleInternet, Joe's Datacenter and Nocix, those servers are dirt cheap.

Be careful, looks like these may be owned by the same person and are all located in KC MO. The prices look good, but some research should be done. Nocix is/was datashack.

https://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1559810

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

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Post by webtechgal »

seanwilson wrote: post #42

Are these static websites or do the apps need to write to the storage space?

The sites/apps will be writing (as well as reading) ALL the time... One of them is a (proprietary) web crawler that will crawl and archive certain types of web resources. (Mainly RSS/XML feeds). Then, another one will crawl/archive URLs, take a screen shot of the URLs too and store them as gif/jpeg/png files.
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