@beagle said: Not sure how many tickets you may have with users not knowing how to partition and format the storage though.
Yeah, that will probably be a huge pain in the ass. Could probably create custom templates that auto partition and mount it, but that's a lot of extra work.
I personally really like split storage setups but I know how to install from ISO and partition the storage exactly how I want, you're asking for trouble with 90% of customers who just want their 1TB available on the root partition though.
I am going to detail a plan below I will not try and justify anything, I am just interested in what you like and dislike and what you would change.
KVM
1 CPU Core
1 GB Ram
1200 GB Disk space (Raid 5 Spinners)
4 TB Bandwidth @ 1 gbit (shared - unmetered inbound)
1 IPv4 address
/64 IPv6 block
Linux/BSD OS supported
Uk/London.
€8.50 /month
€24.00 /3 months
€94.50 /year
Given that this is going to be RAID5 spinning rust and that my IOPS aren't going to be spectacular as a result, I (personally) would prefer to have a unmetered in/out port, perhaps throttled to 50 or 100Mbps instead. Other than that looks like a pretty good deal considering the quality of your network. I could see someone who perhaps has a handful of VPSes with you use this as a way to backup their systems quite easily and quickly... maybe offer a note about internal network traffic not counting against bandwidth quota too?
At that price you're kinda in a tough spot. There are many providers giving 1tb at around $5-6 a month without managing a server. So then if you in need of a server it might be because you want a centralized data solution. At that point it might be more worth while to just offer it as a block storage solution for current customers looking for more storage.
I would like a vps with 1gb of ram and 100 - 200 gb of storage, around 15-20 USD.
Why more RAM, my plan is mail server, nextcloud, a couple of static sites and file sharing.
@mrtilde said:
I would like a vps with 1gb of ram and 100 - 200 gb of storage, around 15-20 USD.
Why more RAM, my plan is mail server, nextcloud, a couple of static sites and file sharing.
I have to say, running a mail server or nextcloud on a disk array intended for raw storage is a terrible idea, imap for example generated almost constant IOPS R+W requests and the bigger the mailbox the worse it gets.
@mrtilde said:
I would like a vps with 1gb of ram and 100 - 200 gb of storage, around 15-20 USD.
Why more RAM, my plan is mail server, nextcloud, a couple of static sites and file sharing.
I have to say, running a mail server on a disk array intended for raw storage is a terrible idea, imap for example generated almost constant IOPS R+W requests and the bigger the mailbox the worse it gets.
He seems to represent the "let me use a cheap storage VPS as a cheap KVM"-style thinking
"A single swap file or partition may be up to 128 MB in size. [...] [I]f you need 256 MB of swap, you can create two 128-MB swap partitions." (M. Welsh & L. Kaufman, Running Linux, 2e, 1996, p. 49)
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Yeah, that will probably be a huge pain in the ass. Could probably create custom templates that auto partition and mount it, but that's a lot of extra work.
I personally really like split storage setups but I know how to install from ISO and partition the storage exactly how I want, you're asking for trouble with 90% of customers who just want their 1TB available on the root partition though.
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Given that this is going to be RAID5 spinning rust and that my IOPS aren't going to be spectacular as a result, I (personally) would prefer to have a unmetered in/out port, perhaps throttled to 50 or 100Mbps instead. Other than that looks like a pretty good deal considering the quality of your network. I could see someone who perhaps has a handful of VPSes with you use this as a way to backup their systems quite easily and quickly... maybe offer a note about internal network traffic not counting against bandwidth quota too?
Just spitballing a bit. Hope this helps
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At that price you're kinda in a tough spot. There are many providers giving 1tb at around $5-6 a month without managing a server. So then if you in need of a server it might be because you want a centralized data solution. At that point it might be more worth while to just offer it as a block storage solution for current customers looking for more storage.
I'd buy it. More disk space with less RAM/CPU works for me personally.
I would like a vps with 1gb of ram and 100 - 200 gb of storage, around 15-20 USD.
Why more RAM, my plan is mail server, nextcloud, a couple of static sites and file sharing.
I second that. In most cases I just need space, not performance. I have no need for ssd/nvme and lots of ram and cpu.
I have to say, running a mail server or nextcloud on a disk array intended for raw storage is a terrible idea, imap for example generated almost constant IOPS R+W requests and the bigger the mailbox the worse it gets.
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He seems to represent the "let me use a cheap storage VPS as a cheap KVM"-style thinking
"A single swap file or partition may be up to 128 MB in size. [...] [I]f you need 256 MB of swap, you can create two 128-MB swap partitions." (M. Welsh & L. Kaufman, Running Linux, 2e, 1996, p. 49)