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  • Thanks. I'd wonder what to do with a product like this. I wonder how much ram pressure there is. If the iops cap means they are really able to deliver 1k iops consistently then I guess it is better than a dedicated HDD. But there is also the cpu…
  • That is a pretty low benchmark right? I have lost track of this stuff.
  • Being able to configure it as public access is part of its attraction though. I.e. that is a feature that people would want and be willing to pay for, thus the suggestion of offering it only on the more expensive tier. Maybe storage box could have…
  • @Hetzner_OL thinking a little more, if S3 is offered it might be better to just have it for storage share and not storage box. S3 will get used as a public-facing service which is more in the spirit of storage share, which has proper backups and (a…
  • You can upgrade and downgrade them through the web console, it's trivial.
  • The 400gb is the 200gb that's already usually part of the plan, plus another 200gb added amirite? So only the extra 200gb is "free". Anyway it still seems like a pass given the persistent crummy benches among other things. All in all I'…
  • That sounds pretty bogus, "lifetime" lol. Nothing ever is. If it stays running for 5 years, that's €49/year for 2TB or around €2/mo per TB, which is ok but not great these days. The 500GB plan is not attractive at all. I would stay awa…
  • (Quote) I think strictly speaking, more locations aren't needed, just say where the existing DE locations are more precisely than "Germany". If they are in both NBG and FLK, let the user choose which they want. If they are all in (say) …
  • Storage share also looks pretty nice. It is actually backed up to another server daily, unlike storage box, besides being on a raid system (don't know if the raid settings are similar). It is around 3 euro/TB of user storage in the large plans, vs…
  • (Quote) The client generates the session key when you make a backup. Thanks for the recommendation about Borg. I'll check it out more carefully and probably give it a try.
  • @Astro you can mount the storage box by sshfs but it relies on a tcp connection staying up, and they tend to drop every so often. I guess you could have a service restart it when that happens, but you are probably better off with storage share unle…
  • Ok I'll see if I can find Duplicati. I guess if Borg's deduping doesn't slow stuff down and isn't discernable on the remote side, it can be ok. Public key encryption for something like this shouldn't have significant cost. Basically each server o…
  • Recording some thoughts in case I decide to code something. I don't know of anything like this but the following approach seems obvious: * All objects (files or whatever) on remote side are opaque (appear to be random) and of fixed size (like 50MB…
  • So far I just use tar and gpg. I tried duplicity a while back and found it slow and cumbersome, and borg looks to be even worse. I had heard of rclone but not really looked into it. I just spent a few minutes looking at its docs. It is nice in s…
  • @Hetzner_OL I haven't yet figured out a good way to set up a storage box for encrypted backup, other than just saving encrypted tar files to it by sshfs or sftp, in a manual and ad-hoc way. That will be good enough for my immediate cold backups but…
  • This is great about the storage box (and nextcloud) refresh. This is the best combination so far of affordable storage and tons of cpu in the same place. I've been using an auction dedi primarily as a storage server for years, because I occasional…
  • (Quote) Storagebox works nicely for my purposes, it's just on the expensive side, especially in the smaller sizes. If you want a lot of space, consider an SX series dedi. If you want less space and it's for cold backups and you don't mind it being…
  • (Quote) The EX is reasonably ok, I just wish it had ECC. The AX would need to have 2x1TB drives to be equal to my auction server in HDD space, but if I were to add drives I'd probably add something like 2x10TB. My first thought was 1x10TB with bac…
  • When I used storagebox a while back, I was able to get around 50MB/s to my Hetzner dedi. I remember worrying that Chia farming on Storagebox might slow Storagebox down. I think Chia is now pretty dead, so idk what effect if any there has been on S…
  • I got an email saying people who experienced price increases with auction servers can now upgrade to an AX or EX series server with no setup fee. I'd be tempted but unfortunately the entry level AX line has 2x2TB disks while my auction server has 2…
  • I wonder if they will have to jump the price up like Hetzner.