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I think you're selling rsync.net a little short here. I'm not aware of another service that offers a turnkey remote full filesystem (ie not just an object store

I think you're selling rsync.net a little short here. I'm not aware of another service that offers a turnkey remote full filesystem (ie not just an object store) that you can access over SSH. Your Hetzner numbers are impressive, but I don't think there's anything available in the US for a similar cost. Most block storage I've seen is ~$10/mo/TB. I would love to be proven wrong on that.

throwaway9d0291 6y ago
> I'm not aware of another service that offers a turnkey remote full filesystem (ie not just an object store) that you can access over SSH. I know it's not what you meant but keep in mind that as-described, that's every single server provider. And I think including what you meant (e.g. ZFS set up), it's literally a one-line command to create a new zpool on a new server. I'm not saying that rsync.net is worthless but it's certainly not worth the price it's charging for anyone who cares about the price. > Your Hetzner numbers are impressive, but I don't think there's anything available in the US for a similar cost. When I was in the US I came to the same conclusion, so went with colocation. However OVH has a datacenter just over the border in Canada and its brands Kimsufi, SoYouStart and OVH [0-2] can get you down to $5/TBmonth. And it looks like they actually have a couple of US datacenters now, which is new. A quick look shows that you can get a 16TB server for $92/month [3], which is $5.75/TBmonth. But overall it looks like the dedicated server market in the US is still super expensive. You can always keep your bulk data in Europe. [0]: https://www.kimsufi.com/us/en/servers.xml https://www.kimsufi.com/us/en/servers.xml [1]: https://www.soyoustart.com/us/essential-servers/ https://www.soyoustart.com/us/essential-servers/ [2]: https://us.ovhcloud.com/ https://us.ovhcloud.com/ [3]: https://us.ovhcloud.com/bare-metal/advance/adv-stor-1/ https://us.ovhcloud.com/bare-metal/advance/adv-stor-1/
- anderspitman 6y ago
  I think you have a different idea of "turnkey" than I do. For me, having an OVH account, provisioning a VM, setting up the user account, hardening the server, managing backups, etc etc doesn't count.

throwaway9d0291 6y ago

> I'm not aware of another service that offers a turnkey remote full filesystem (ie not just an object store) that you can access over SSH. I know it's not what you meant but keep in mind that as-described, that's every single server provider. And I think including what you meant (e.g. ZFS set up), it's literally a one-line command to create a new zpool on a new server. I'm not saying that rsync.net is worthless but it's certainly not worth the price it's charging for anyone who cares about the price. > Your Hetzner numbers are impressive, but I don't think there's anything available in the US for a similar cost. When I was in the US I came to the same conclusion, so went with colocation. However OVH has a datacenter just over the border in Canada and its brands Kimsufi, SoYouStart and OVH [0-2] can get you down to $5/TBmonth. And it looks like they actually have a couple of US datacenters now, which is new. A quick look shows that you can get a 16TB server for $92/month [3], which is $5.75/TBmonth. But overall it looks like the dedicated server market in the US is still super expensive. You can always keep your bulk data in Europe. [0]: https://www.kimsufi.com/us/en/servers.xml https://www.kimsufi.com/us/en/servers.xml [1]: https://www.soyoustart.com/us/essential-servers/ https://www.soyoustart.com/us/essential-servers/ [2]: https://us.ovhcloud.com/ https://us.ovhcloud.com/ [3]: https://us.ovhcloud.com/bare-metal/advance/adv-stor-1/ https://us.ovhcloud.com/bare-metal/advance/adv-stor-1/

anderspitman 6y ago
I think you have a different idea of "turnkey" than I do. For me, having an OVH account, provisioning a VM, setting up the user account, hardening the server, managing backups, etc etc doesn't count.