Are these static websites or do the apps need to write to the storage space?
What sort of static website would need that much storage?
Ask HN: Cheap dedicated hosting options for side projects
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Re: Ask HN: Cheap dedicated hosting options for side projects
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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…
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Re: Ask HN: Cheap dedicated hosting options for side projects
#73At https://MNX.io we introduced an SSD cached storage VPS server -- 500GB starting at $7/month, available up to 40TB at $15/TB.
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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.
So very true and I doubt if ANY service with such low costs would provide any support beyond hardware/network failure. However, speaking for myself, once I have the trusty ol' CentOS 6.7 and an ssh login, Barbara is my aunt, so this works for me. :-)
Re: Ask HN: Cheap dedicated hosting options for side projects
#75Here'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?
Fyi, you might want to check this out (scroll to the bottom and start with the first post): https://amc.ovh/
Re: Ask HN: Cheap dedicated hosting options for side projects
#76I use OVH SSD VPS (the cheapest offer) and it has been working nicely for me.
However if you select your server to be in a region requests from other regions might be a bit slow.
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#77I am using https://online.net , works good so far.
If you can put up with the latency to France.
Looks quite promising, and well within my price range (under $10) too. In fact, their Personal Range appears to be cheaper and config-wise superior to even Kimsufi!! I will surely check this out. @jagger27, for a WAHM from India, be it France/US/UK or whatever, they're all the same. :-)
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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.
Give me a shout if you need any help. I know HN doesn't have private messaging, but you can reach me on IRC on Freenode at AMorpork.
Re: Ask HN: Cheap dedicated hosting options for side projects
#79Here'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…
maybe you guys are using Plex for nothing but family vacation videos and publicly licensed content; but, no way in hell I would use 3rd party storage for my plex setup.
On the otherhand, that's a kickass storage setup though.
Re: Ask HN: Cheap dedicated hosting options for side projects
#80Here'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…
maybe you guys are using Plex for nothing but family vacation videos and publicly licensed content; but, no way in hell I would use 3rd party storage for my plex setup. On the otherhand, that's a kickass storage setup though.
I use encfs on top of all of that, which means there's no possible way for Amazon to see my files.