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Hetzner auctions have a 4x 6TB server for €39.70/mo. Throw that in RAID10 and you'll have 12TB usable space with > 300TB bandwidth.
by qeternity 3y ago
Hetzner auctions have a 4x 6TB server for €39.70/mo.
Throw that in RAID10 and you'll have 12TB usable space with > 300TB bandwidth.
- princevegeta89 3y agoIsn't that enterprise HDD going to be slower for a cloud instance though?
- Hamuko 3y agoSSDs are definitely not "cost-effective" for 10 TB if that's what you're suggesting.
- dehrmann 3y agoIt looks like HDD prices are at ~40% of SSD prices (new drives, not cloud-hosted). SSDs are starting to make sense for more things, now.
- ComputerGuru 3y agoThat comparison only holds for the smaller sizes.
- dehrmann 3y agoFor an 8 TB SSD and 18 TB HDD, it's more like 3x.
- princevegeta89 3y agoI mean to say, for general self-hosting services and apps, HDDs seem to have that performance problem and latency, which could lead to a negative experience?
- yread 3y agoUnless you need the performance. if you compare a single ssd to a raid 6 with 5+ drives to lower the seek times the ssd will always come on top
- dinvlad 3y agoStorage Boxes are even cheaper, 20 EUR (or less if you’re outside Europe) for 10TB + unlimited bandwidth.
- wongarsu 3y agoIf we are talking about serving files publicly I'd go with the €40 server for flexibility (the storage boxes are kind of limited), but still get a €20 Storage Box to have a backup of the data. Then add more servers as bandwidth and redundancy requires. But if splitting your traffic across multiple servers is possible you can also get the €20 storage box and put a couple Hetzner Cloud servers with a caching reverse proxy in front (that's like 10 lines of Nginx config). The cheapest Hetzner Cloud option is the CAX11 with 4GB RAM, 40GB SSD and 20TB traffic for €3,79. Six of those plus the Storage Box gives you the traffic you need, lots of bandwidth for usage peaks, SSD cache for frequently requested files, and easily upgradable storage in the Storage Box, all for €42. Also scales well at $3,79 for every additional 20TB traffic, or $1/TB if you forget and pay fees for the excess traffic instead. You will be babysitting this more than the $150/month cloudflare solution, but even if you factor in the cost of your time you should come out ahead.
- aledalgrande 3y ago> even if you factor in the cost of your time you should come out ahead There is always the hidden cost of not spending time on activities that are core to your business (if this is indeed for a business) that would make multiples of the money CF costs you.