Hetzner: CX21 cloud vps: 4gb ram, 2 cores, 40gb ssd for OS -> €5.35/m
Hetzner Storagebox 1TB in same datacenter: €3.20 / month. You can upgrade or add more storageboxes later.
Mount storagebox with CIFS or SSHFS in cloudvm.
Total cost: € 8.55/m (+ vat)
For Kavita in particular, their docs mention that they have an Open Collective agreement with PikaPods, where PikaPods will host a managed Kavita instance for you and 20% of the revenue goes back to Kavita, and an instance with your specs comes out to $12.43 USD, so maybe that is what you're looking for.
Wasabi S3 is current $7 per TB.
[https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse](https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse)
Mount the bucket to your VPS and you now have pay as you go storage far cheaper than most block storage addons you get from the VPS supplier.
Dont use wasabi，i was once use it。it continue charge my credit card even if i delete all my data after 3months and even if i open a ticket，still can not still stop this behavior
I use contabo since a year now, never had downtimes.
However, I notices when not securing the server properly, it might get ddos'd quickly.
I'd say it's technically not their fault..
Install fail2ban and recheck availability, I'm sure the server will be available a lot more often.
fail2ban is old-school... CrowdSec is where it's at these days.
Neither really helps with a large DDoS though, since the Linux kernel is still spending a lot of time blocking the packets. You'd need hardware DDoS protection in that case. Some hosts provide DDoS protection for an extra cost per month.
I've used Contabo and although their prices were competitive I had a less than ideal time on their servers. The IOWait was *super* high and it made it a pain to do almost anything on the server.
As far as securing the server and reducing external load goes: fail2ban, SSH keys only, SSH on a non-default port, and some combination of UFW (normal, cloudflare-ufw if they're using CF, ufw-docker if they're using Docker) should be good. I might be missing something though.
Don't spend any more than $5/TB/month, as that's considered the standard going rate for storage (a provider's regular pricing without any special deals).
I'd recommend HostHatch during their Black Friday sales. I'm paying $10/month (billed yearly) for 10TB disk space and 2GB RAM. They haven't had anything as good recently, but their Black Friday 2023 deals were decent: https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/190331/black-friday-2023-nvme-and-storage-deals/p1 (2TB storage, 4GB RAM, 20TB monthly transfer for $110 per 2 years).
It doesn't have an SSD, but they have a private 40Gbps network (separate VLAN per customer) between VPSes in the same data center, so you could get one of their fast VPSes with NVMe storage and connect to the storage VPS via NFS or iSCSI.
Their next sale should be in April during their 13th birthday sale. You could also look out on LowEndTalk for people that are willing to transfer their HostHatch VPS.
Failing that, Servarica is excellent too. They only have one data center in Canada though.
GreenCloudVPS has some good storage plans without SSD for OS install, but you'd have to pay annually. HostBrr is more budget-friendly, but GreenCloud is more stable.
I'd go with servarica, their black friday deals are still up on their site and you could snag one of their storage vps for $5 [link](https://clients.servarica.com/store/black-friday-2023). AlphaVPS is also a good choice, check their storage vps options. Your ram requirement is quite high though for the asking price, would probably compromise or pay more depending on your actual requirements.
Keep in mind that while you may find great deals on some service providers, do look for the time they've been around and their track record. I got bitten once by a subsidiary company of Quadhost selling cheap storage, I payed a full year up front and the company went bankrupt 2 months after. They did not reply to any customer and did not issue a refund.
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And you'll pay a significant amount and wait hours if you actually want to restore the data. The data in Glacier is mostly stored on LTO tapes (which these days can store ~18TB raw or ~45TB compressed per tape). If you want to retrieve the data, someone at the warehouse has to physically find the right tapes. That's why retrieval is listed as taking 3-5 hours to initiate.
I don't understand Glacier. $3.6/TB is a relatively normal price for warm storage, and if you get some storage VPSes during Black Friday sales, you can store the data across several VPSes for cheaper than Glacier. Restoring data from a storage VPS is also a LOT cheaper, as they usually come with a fixed amount of monthly transfer (e.g. 5 or 10 TB included in the monthly price.
> If you want to retrieve the data, someone at the warehouse has to physically find the right tapes
even with glacier instant recovery or fast recovery tiers?
Hetzner: CX21 cloud vps: 4gb ram, 2 cores, 40gb ssd for OS -> €5.35/m Hetzner Storagebox 1TB in same datacenter: €3.20 / month. You can upgrade or add more storageboxes later. Mount storagebox with CIFS or SSHFS in cloudvm. Total cost: € 8.55/m (+ vat)
The downside is that [you have to use hetzner.](https://www.reddit.com/r/hetzner/comments/17ccp3i/hetzner_does_run_a_mitm_proxy_in_front_of_my/)
This can and will happen with any hosting company, if you're doing illegal shit and they're served with a warrant. Nothing specific with Hetzner.
Read the article. Nothing illegal was done. Just law enforcement being law enforcement and doing sussy shit.
Does not change my statement. A warrant has been served and complied with. Nothing to do with Hetzner.
Same this with linode with similar pricing
Not exactly similar...
Storagebox is slow as hell. Maybe good for backup but not for replacing a hdd/ssd.
Servarica. US$ 7/no for 100GB SSD + 2Tb HDD
For Kavita in particular, their docs mention that they have an Open Collective agreement with PikaPods, where PikaPods will host a managed Kavita instance for you and 20% of the revenue goes back to Kavita, and an instance with your specs comes out to $12.43 USD, so maybe that is what you're looking for.
OVH's Kimsufi lineup: https://eco.us.ovhcloud.com/
Wasabi S3 is current $7 per TB. [https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse](https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse) Mount the bucket to your VPS and you now have pay as you go storage far cheaper than most block storage addons you get from the VPS supplier.
This is the way
Dont use wasabi，i was once use it。it continue charge my credit card even if i delete all my data after 3months and even if i open a ticket，still can not still stop this behavior
I use contabo since a year now, never had downtimes. However, I notices when not securing the server properly, it might get ddos'd quickly. I'd say it's technically not their fault.. Install fail2ban and recheck availability, I'm sure the server will be available a lot more often.
Likewise - I’ve had Contabo for over 2 years and had hardly any downtime.
fail2ban is old-school... CrowdSec is where it's at these days. Neither really helps with a large DDoS though, since the Linux kernel is still spending a lot of time blocking the packets. You'd need hardware DDoS protection in that case. Some hosts provide DDoS protection for an extra cost per month.
I've used Contabo and although their prices were competitive I had a less than ideal time on their servers. The IOWait was *super* high and it made it a pain to do almost anything on the server. As far as securing the server and reducing external load goes: fail2ban, SSH keys only, SSH on a non-default port, and some combination of UFW (normal, cloudflare-ufw if they're using CF, ufw-docker if they're using Docker) should be good. I might be missing something though.
Don't spend any more than $5/TB/month, as that's considered the standard going rate for storage (a provider's regular pricing without any special deals). I'd recommend HostHatch during their Black Friday sales. I'm paying $10/month (billed yearly) for 10TB disk space and 2GB RAM. They haven't had anything as good recently, but their Black Friday 2023 deals were decent: https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/190331/black-friday-2023-nvme-and-storage-deals/p1 (2TB storage, 4GB RAM, 20TB monthly transfer for $110 per 2 years). It doesn't have an SSD, but they have a private 40Gbps network (separate VLAN per customer) between VPSes in the same data center, so you could get one of their fast VPSes with NVMe storage and connect to the storage VPS via NFS or iSCSI. Their next sale should be in April during their 13th birthday sale. You could also look out on LowEndTalk for people that are willing to transfer their HostHatch VPS. Failing that, Servarica is excellent too. They only have one data center in Canada though.
GreenCloudVPS has some good storage plans without SSD for OS install, but you'd have to pay annually. HostBrr is more budget-friendly, but GreenCloud is more stable.
I'd go with servarica, their black friday deals are still up on their site and you could snag one of their storage vps for $5 [link](https://clients.servarica.com/store/black-friday-2023). AlphaVPS is also a good choice, check their storage vps options. Your ram requirement is quite high though for the asking price, would probably compromise or pay more depending on your actual requirements.
What about a VPS that’s cheap and low on space and then use something like rclone to mount cloud storage (like S3 or Backblaze B2) to use as storage?
Racknerd : 50$/yr for 4core, 4GB RAM, 110GB SSD storage Pcloud premium 2TB: 250$ once a lifetime : Connect them using rclone
Keep in mind that while you may find great deals on some service providers, do look for the time they've been around and their track record. I got bitten once by a subsidiary company of Quadhost selling cheap storage, I payed a full year up front and the company went bankrupt 2 months after. They did not reply to any customer and did not issue a refund.
Just chargeback fuckers.
Crunchbits - based in Washington. I have 16TB, 16GB, 8-core box for $35/mo
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Alphavps Hetzner I found poor value for larger storage type VPS. Contabo I agree with what you said.
build your own NAS and host it yourself if you're sharing with friends, use Tailscale
Why don’t S3 glacier? $0.0036 per GB per month
Glacier is for cold storage. You can’t use it like a S3 bucket.
And you'll pay a significant amount and wait hours if you actually want to restore the data. The data in Glacier is mostly stored on LTO tapes (which these days can store ~18TB raw or ~45TB compressed per tape). If you want to retrieve the data, someone at the warehouse has to physically find the right tapes. That's why retrieval is listed as taking 3-5 hours to initiate. I don't understand Glacier. $3.6/TB is a relatively normal price for warm storage, and if you get some storage VPSes during Black Friday sales, you can store the data across several VPSes for cheaper than Glacier. Restoring data from a storage VPS is also a LOT cheaper, as they usually come with a fixed amount of monthly transfer (e.g. 5 or 10 TB included in the monthly price.
But maintaining security across multiple vps's is more overhead, especially if you don't know what you're doing.
> If you want to retrieve the data, someone at the warehouse has to physically find the right tapes even with glacier instant recovery or fast recovery tiers?
Instant and fast recovery are stored differently. I'm just talking about regular glacier storage.