Cheap VPS with a minimum of 300GB storage

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Posted by thero, 02-17-2016, 06:23 PM
I need a VPS for storage with a minimum of 300GB storage (would prefer 500GB - but not essential). Performance doesn't really matter. Would also prefer Europe, but US would be fine as well at the right price. Any recommendations??
Posted by Andei, 02-17-2016, 06:25 PM
Well, if US is fine as well then you could look into ServerHub big data VPS: http://serverhub.com/vps/ssd-cached I've got one myself, for storage purposes, and it works good. $5/mo for 500GB, doesn't really get any cheaper than that.
Posted by TmzHosting, 02-17-2016, 06:28 PM
How much have you actually used out of the 500 GB? - Daniel
Posted by Andei, 02-17-2016, 06:30 PM
I actually have the 1TB one, and here's the usage, which reminds me I have to do some cleanup.
Posted by thero, 02-17-2016, 06:33 PM
Nice. Seems like exactly what I need. Thanks.
Posted by net, 02-17-2016, 07:07 PM
Wow, darn cheap..... what kind of vps specs you have? This is for storage only or you can use it for hosting sites?
Posted by Andei, 02-17-2016, 07:11 PM
Well, the specs you can see on their website, as for hosting sites I guess you can do that, as far as I can see there are no restrictions, but I only use it for pure storage.
Posted by netdepotmitch, 02-18-2016, 11:49 AM
How much RAM and Bandwidth do you need? You're in the right place!
Posted by bekserver, 02-18-2016, 12:17 PM
Do you want with SSD or SATA ? And how much BW are you need ?
Posted by GlideServers, 02-19-2016, 05:45 PM
If you don't mid spending 20 dollars a month then I would go with Vultr on their local storage instances, for 500 GB, 2 GB RAM and 3 TB transfer its pretty good. They currently have one location for in europe for this deal; Amsterdam. They do also offer it in a few other locations.
Posted by LinuxFox, 02-20-2016, 02:15 PM
Have you tried their services? It looks like that the disk space is highly oversold. There must be some fair usage policy.
Posted by Andei, 02-20-2016, 02:43 PM
Of course I tried their services, it'd be against WHT rules to recommend them if I didn't. Not only that I tried their services, I'm still an active client and the disk usage I've posted here in this thread are from my VPS with them. Basically I'm eating up almost all (93%) of my allocated space, and had no complaints on their part. Also, as I've mentioned before, I'm using this VPS exclusively for storage purposes, so I cannot comment on what you can or cannot host on your VPS with them (ie: sites/whatever). Best to ask them about this, not me. I just saw an awesome deal and I went for it, and so far not regretting it one bit.
Posted by MechanicWeb-shoss, 02-20-2016, 03:21 PM
How long you are using their vps? Any particular issues?
Posted by Andei, 02-20-2016, 04:26 PM
I've had this VPS for 3 months now, and I've been monitoring its uptime for about a month now and so far it has 0% downtime. No issues or complaints so far.
Posted by MechanicWeb-shoss, 02-20-2016, 04:57 PM
Sounds like it is a better option for backups than backupsy. There is no mention of raid on their page, though.
Posted by Andei, 02-20-2016, 05:09 PM
Not sure how you missed the RAID specs, but here it is on the page where the VPS plans are on: http://i.imgur.com/4tvfEDM.png Either way, I'm cautious like that and even my backups have backups... so my serverhub backup VPS is being backed up on a hetzner server
Posted by MechanicWeb-shoss, 02-20-2016, 05:24 PM
I am wondering the same thing now. May be I need a cg break
Posted by danieln, 02-21-2016, 11:10 PM
what's the difference on pure ssd & cached ssd (other than the sizes)??
Posted by Andei, 02-22-2016, 03:30 AM
Pure SSD means the data is stored just on SSDs... while cached SSD means the data is stored on regular HDDs, which have a SSD drive that caches the most used files.
Posted by danieln, 02-22-2016, 03:39 AM
oh.... so would there be much performance different?
Posted by Andei, 02-22-2016, 03:42 AM
Definitely... I normally go for pure SSD, unless I really need a lot of storage space like in this thread's case. SSD has gotten considerably cheaper lately, so there's no reason not to go with pure SSD, unless (like I've said) you really need the large storage space. Once you go pure SSD, you never (want to) go back.
Posted by danieln, 02-22-2016, 03:58 AM
well i think if can just used the $15/yr cached and put on https://owncloud.org/ we get a much cheaper google drive plan... LOL

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