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Ask HN: Cheap VPS with 1TB HDD?

by rambojazz on 6/15/22, 5:32 AM with 43 comments

• by lovelearning on 6/15/22, 7:25 AM

  I use a Hetzner CX11[1] VPS running nginx. Files are stored on Hetzner's 1TB Storage Box service. Storage Box has built-in WebDAV HTTP interface (among others). Costs about €6.50/month in all.

  You might also want to see their Storage Share[3] service - similarly priced but more user-friendly with a NextCloud frontend and WebDAV HTTP interface.

  From another discussion here, I found that Backblaze B2 and Cloudflare R2 are still cheaper. May want to check them out too.

  [1]: https://www.hetzner.com/cloud

  [2]: https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box

  [3]: https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share

• by fbcpck on 6/15/22, 7:19 AM

  I am actually not familiar with such limitations with storage VPS against webservers. It doesn't seem to be the norm, and I would still search with "Storage VPS" as search keyword in e.g. https://lowendtalk.com.

  I've personally used the following in the past. It was quite cheap and generally happy with it.

  https://www.time4vps.com/storage-vps/

  ———

  You might also want to get (snipe) a server off https://www.kimsufi.com/uk/servers.xml — the best ones usually sold out within a minute or two, but nothing beats the price.

• by matt_heimer on 6/15/22, 2:49 PM

  If they are uncompressed text files, have you considered compressing them on disk? Nginx has gzip_static and gunzip options that will allow you to serve the content from pre-compressed files.

• by sylvain_kerkour on 6/15/22, 6:36 AM

  I would put the files on a S3-like service (scaleway, backblaze...) and setup a small VPS to serve the files.

  By using Scaleway you would pay ~12€/m for 1TB of storage and ~7€/m for the smallest instance (can go even cheaper if you manage to get a stardust instance at ~1.5€/m). Also, Scaleway does not charge for egress (bandwidth) so it seems the perfect solution to your problem :)

  Alternatively, you could enable the website feature[0] on the bucket to save you from setting up a web server, but then you would pay for the egress.

  [0]: https://www.scaleway.com/en/docs/storage/object/how-to/use-b...

  Disclaimer: I'm just an happy customer

• by dusted on 6/15/22, 8:18 AM

  Wouldn't it be easier to self host ? Sounds like something that could be lifted by a raspberry pi 4 and a 1 TiB usb harddrive?

• by malteg on 6/15/22, 7:25 AM

  Try contabo.com Have good experience with them. They are now available outside the EU too. You can choose between ssd and hdd. If you really price sensitive and need a cheap vps give netcup.eu a try (eu only)

• by warrenm on 6/15/22, 11:14 AM

  >I know there are "storage VPSes" but these do not allow webservers

  Never seen this anywhere

  The "storage VPS" just means they're focusing on storage over CPU or RAM ...they're still full VPS instances

• by hardwaresofton on 6/15/22, 11:51 AM

  Shameless plug, but if you're looking for a cheap VPS and don't want to run the backing services that might be required by the application/whatever you're trying to host, I'm working on something to offer some basic (and later advanced) managed services on Hetzner.

  I think Hetzner's great (it's definitely the right choice in here), but it is missing some features we've come to expect from low cost but robust cloud providers (DO, Linode, etc) -- Managed S3 storage, simple Database as a service, etc. I'm working on a sort of... proto-cloud that can sit on providers like Hetzner, OVH and LeaseWeb and offer this functionality.

  My thing is called NimbusWS (https://nimbusws.com), but there are other things:

  - Elestio: https://elest.io/

  - Symbiosis: https://symbiosis.host (they offer managed k8s, they run on Hetzner IIRC)

• by stevenicr on 6/15/22, 6:30 PM

  I've enjoyed leaseweb having dedicated servers (when on sale) for half the price of many 'modern' vps slingers.. eg:

  CPU 1x 4 cores 3.30GHz SYS-5037MC-H12TRF 2 SFF bays ram 16GB DDR3 hdd 1x1TB SATA traffic 10 TB Availability 1 hr - 5 days US$43.64 per month - ( https://www.leaseweb.com/bare-metal-server/configure/27128?c... )

  yeah that's not apples to apples - it's not an SSD drive - those are more for that size, but it sounds like you are looking for price and likely do not need to spend the extra dough for SSD.

• by throwaway67743 on 6/15/22, 6:26 PM

  An alternative suggestion if you don't need the VPS benefits (ie root), feral sell reasonably cheap shell accounts from 1 to 8tb (won't link just in case, but easy to find on Google)

• by antifa on 6/15/22, 3:33 PM

  According to the google cloud calculator, before bandwidth charges, an f1-micro VPS (0.60 GB RAM) is $3.88/month and 1TB of disk for the VPS is $40/month.

  I think the free tier will give you a free forever 1GB e2-micro, so you might be able to get that then only pay for the $40 GB disk and outbound bandwidth.

  B2 backblaze is an S3 compatible API that will hold 1TB for $60/year before bandwidth charges.

  The bandwidth charges might kill these 2 ideas for you, but cloudflare or bunnycdn might be worth looking into to hide gcloud or B2 behind.

• by antihero on 6/15/22, 12:11 PM

  I use PulseHeberg Storage Cloud VPS, works great, is cheap and uses KVM so you can roll your own distro/kernel.

  Emails will be in French mind, which doesn’t really bother me.

  Performance is fine, happily/needlessly serving my static website and navidrome using microk8s on one of the slightly beefier boxes.

  https://pulseheberg.com/cloud/vps-storage

• by nreece on 6/15/22, 5:46 AM

  RamNode has a KVM VPS range with 1 TB HDD storage for $15/month.

  I've used their VPSs many years ago, and they were excellent in terms of performance and support. Nick, the owner, has sold the company since then, and I haven't used them lately, so I'm not sure about their current standing, but worth giving them a try.

  The other option can be to store the text files as objects on Backblaze B2 or Cloudflare R2 for cheap.

• by bbrks on 6/15/22, 8:27 AM

  Use one of the notification websites to grab a $5.99/mo KS-1 from kimsufi (OVHcloud) - it should be in stock multiple times a day

  It's a tiny dedicated server that should be plenty sufficient. I run all my personal infra on these (and the higher spec ones) and they're great for the price.

  Intel ATOM N2800 2c/4t 1.86GHz 4GB DDR3 1066MHz 1TB 100 Mbps

• by kkielhofner on 6/16/22, 3:32 AM

  Cloudflare and Backblaze B2 - nothing else will even come close for the price point.

  Either put the static files in the bucket or use Cloudflare Pages.

  Will be around $5/mo and you get ddos protection, edge caching, etc, etc.

  If you want to experiment Cloudflare is free and the first 10GB on B2 are free.

• by indigodaddy on 6/15/22, 7:45 AM

  buyvm.net 1G Ram KVM for $3.50/mo Add 1TB block storage slab for $5/mo

• by jjice on 6/16/22, 1:52 PM

  If it's static and there is no server side code running at all, you might be able to get away with raw S3-like + a CDN in front. No servers to manager, and it'll be relatively cheap.

• by mobilio on 6/16/22, 8:33 AM

  Why you didn't host this at home?

  Get some Intel NUC and 1T disk. Install everything and use CloudFlare Tunnel to expose server via CF to the internet.

• by nix23 on 6/15/22, 12:26 PM

  +1 for Hetzner VPS - the V

  https://www.hetzner.com/sb

• by weird-eye-issue on 6/15/22, 7:47 AM

  DigitalOcean with Block Storage

• by x0ff on 6/15/22, 4:25 PM

  check out https://contabo.com/en/storage-vps/ starts at 3.99€ performs quite well

• by aae42 on 6/16/22, 12:10 AM

  wasabi will sell you 1TB of object storage for 5.99/mo