I used to rock a bare metal 1Tib HDD server for 17€/month, that I used as an NFS server for all my other servers which needed storage space.

First of all, NFS kinda sucks and I’m looking for alternative solution that I can use on OpenBSD to mount remote volumes.

Secondly, I’m planning to move this server to hetzner (my current provider), but they lack affordable storage (it’s 50€/month for 1Tib). Do you know an hosting provider which would provide high volumes for not so expensive prices ?

    • z3bra@lemmy.sdf.orgOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I’d like to avoid that as I don’t consider my home network reliable enough for such a critical task.

  • fry@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 year ago

    NFS kinda sucks and I’m looking for alternative solution

    Rsync + cron? If you just need to backup some files/directories.

    Edit: ah, saw that you will read/write a lot. Do you really need to do that over the network? Why not upload a .tar, a snapshot or whatever of the changes?

    If you could be a bit more specific then maybe we could give some better advice.

    Use a seedbox if you’re downloading stuff and dont have enough disk space.

    • z3bra@lemmy.sdf.orgOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      The best example would be a running an email or chat server. The spool/media directories can go large pretty quick as users share pictures, gifs, … So I would like to mount it from a remote location because the matrix server itself only has a 20G SSD for the whole OS. Rsync won’t cut it there as I have a specific process writing to a location.

  • rambos@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Google and dropbox are ~10€ a month for 2 TB. Idk is that solution for you, but I would consider building NAS at home. I mean…this is selfhosted channel :)

    For backup I use backblaze, but thats cheap only if you dont download a lot, also not sure can it be used for your case. Sry, not rly helpful (:

    • z3bra@lemmy.sdf.orgOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I’m never going with Google/Dropbox ^^ the goal is to be in control of my data. Backblaze could be an option, but I expect too many read/writee for it to be cheap.

      I considered the NAS at home but my home net is not reliable enough.

      TBH I’m still looking for a better option to share storage between servers other than NFS. There has to be something better in 2023!

  • douglasg14b@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    And here I am running NFS as the backing storage on an R720xd for 4 other M630 VM hosts.

    Connected via SFP+ DAC. I get max bandwidth saturation, and ~65k IOPS!! NFS is great 😅

    You could use things like AWS S3 or similar offerings from other providers like digitalocean. They have plenty of documentation that guide you through how they work.

  • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Hetzner has their storage boxes which are very cheap, might be an option.

    Alternatively use an external S3 provider like Wasabi or Backblaze.