Comment by npodbielski

4 days ago

I bought 35$/mo 16TB server from OVH. I am running 2 replicas of Garage, one on this server. I am using this for backup for now but probably I will also move my Nextcloud files there and websites. This is fine for now and less pricey than any S3 provider I was able to find.

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wiether  4 days ago

Mind sharing the reference of the server?

I would have considered it when rebuilding my media infra but haven't seen anything close to this

  • npodbielski  4 days ago

    I was fishing for nice price for server like that for few months. To be true I saw something similar but even cheaper last year and I should buy then for 20$, but thought that I do not need it. Now those servers are more like 60$/mo.

    It was something like that. https://www.kimsufi.com/pl/?range=kimsufi&storage=12000%7C11...

    As you can see price is 180% of that now for bit more storage.

    • wiether  4 days ago

      Thanks!

      Yeah I thought that it would be the KS range but didn't see anything close in term of pricing.

      16TB for $35 is a no-brainer!

      I'm currently migrating away from a KS because the disks are almost dead now so I had to go with another solution for TB storage.

      But it was great when it was working!

chirau  4 days ago

Honest question, what do you need/use 16TB for? 4K video?

  • npodbielski  4 days ago

    I already am using almost 4tb just for backup. 2TB for all of my files in NAS. As I wrote above I will most probably move my Nextcloud instance storage there so I will be already using 6TB of storage. With built-in instant replication between nodes in garage I should have instant backup of my files.

    Right now I do not have time, but it would be nice to move storage all of my services there so in case of trouble with one server I could instantly spin them up on other machine by mounting S3 storage. Performance probably wont be great but if main machine will go down I will be still able to use my home automation for example on some secondary without much of a hassle.

    Anyway having dedicated server and backup storage for 30$/mo does not seem unreasonable.