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Something like a self-hosted pyvideo.org would probably take a few TBs.
Even that has a search option. I suppose you might want to host a large number of big downloads.
Kimsufi are a great low-cost provider, I ran an Atom dedi with a 1TB disk with them for 2 years at around £12 a month. Never had any problems - great bandwidth to move data around, mostly used the big disk for offsite backups. However, an important consideration - they don't adjust their pricing for existing customers or allow the hardware to be upgraded. Around the 2-year mark, they dropped the price for the same se…
Kimsufi are a great low-cost provider, I ran an Atom dedi with a 1TB disk with them for 2 years at around £12 a month. Never had any problems - great bandwidth to move data around, mostly used the big disk for offsite backups. However, an important consideration - they don't adjust their pricing for existing customers or allow the hardware to be upgraded. Around the 2-year mark, they dropped the price for the same se…
Thanks for all this info. Just out of curiosity, when they offered the same config as your £12/mo box for £3/mo and refused to reduce your billing, could you not have simply bought the cheaper one, taken a snapshot of the existing server, transferred it over to the new one and discontinued the older one?
At the time, my need for a hosted machine was decreasing so I didn't want to expend much effort anyway.
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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).
- 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.
You could add more CPU/more RAM for just a few pennies. Disk space scales to 50TB per disk quite cheaply.
https://cc.delimiter.com/cart/cloud-resource-pool/
Another option is ObjSpace (S3 compatible storage) but that would require you to run S3FS or similar. http://delimiter.com/objspace-object-storage/
[disclaimer I work for Delimiter]
Seen as you already mention Vultr as an option they actually have dedicated block storage plans: https://www.vultr.com/pricing/blockstorage/ A 500GB SSD is $50/month which seems fairly reasonable. You can use it directly with a cheap VPS from them as well.
If you don't mind a sketchy company Volume Drive has great prices, just horrible service.
Mine was one of the "stolen" servers from their old colocation provider or whatever whenever drama with them went down ~3 years ago.