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Concerto49, thanks, the $80 refers to what AWS charges to ship a drive or install one that you ship to them. It doesn't include purchasing the drive ;). I saw newegg had 4TB drives for $150 a few days ago (they go on sale once a month or so) so I'd want to use those rather than 1TB drives if...

Folks, thanks. Shovenose, I may get in contact. Do you have physical presence in a DC, or would you be using the DC's remote hands? Pcan, yeah, $80/drive is more than I was really hoping to pay, but it's within reason. I'd say $189/drive is high enough that I'd look for alternatives. USB...

Joe, yeah, I understand some DC's don't want to deal with BYOD or impose weird conditions on them. I don't care about BYOD. I want to get drives out of the DC, not bring them in.

I don't really care about 2-way or hot sleds. I'm ok with just buying drives from the host and having them sent to me one way, if that makes things simpler. I saw something about some DC's allowing sending drives in, but then you can't get them out again. Getting drives sent from rented...

I'm potentially interested in renting a dedicated server or a VPS with dedicated storage, where I can purchase the hard drives and have them shipped to me from the DC with my data on them. Payment up front with a reasonable setup fee is fine. Is anyone in a position to offer something like that?

Monthly is kind of stressful for high storage plans (hard to migrate quickly) or for anything running services where downtime would cause disruption. After a couple of near-drama experiences due to problems with payment processors with just a few days left on a plan, I now do these things...

Overall I think this is not a very wise plan.  You really need some scheme for updating addresses.

I found the backupsy TOS kind of scary, and I wouldn't put anything really sensitive on a VPS whether it was encrypted or not.

I have nothing to do with this, and it frankly kind of scares me: http://instantserver.io/ It's a free 614mb ec2 micro instance that expires after 35 minutes (unless you pay for it).  Suitable for quick tests and that sort of thing, according to the description.  Posted for your information.

I don't understand the bandwidth requirement if this is for backup.  6tb of bw for 350gb of data means re-upload of everything almost 20 times, which would mean awfully short backup retention. I'd say use some kind of differential backup strategy so your daily uploads are reasonably small, and...

I remember Fran of BuyVM offering 100mbit unmetered ports on LEB.  I don't remember the price but it was pretty attractive.  At least immediately after the Fiberhub move it wasn't possible to push data at that speed for sustained periods from there, but I think they've tuned/upgraded their...

I think it's mostly about the business approach.  First there's the range and utilization of hardware I mentioned earlier.  Maybe more importantly though, it occurs to me, high end services are usually postpaid rather than prepaid, and they can always bill your company credit card instead of...

If the 7-10 day setup is made clear beforehand, I can probably live with it if the deal is good enough (I imagine someone ordering the hardware and building it out).  Typically that kind of situation would involve setup fees.  Of course I'd expect to not start paying monthly fees until I...

One thing I would say about high end is that there should always be plenty of all plans in stock all the time, so users can always expand their operations whenever they want to/have to.  That means the providers have to deliberately have a lot of mostly-idle hardware, which drives costs up.  EC2...

The 72gb offer is the best price I've ever seen for a dedi with that much cpu and ram (no idea about the connectivity, and more disk would be nice).  So I do get the impression it's an unusual offer. I may have a use for a server like this in the foreseeable future, though I don't necessarily...

Yes, good point, I didn't bother mentioning this because the original post said that more disks would be an option, but of course the pricing is relevant too.  I'd almost never want a server with no RAID, i.e. multiple disks.  I do find it annoying that OVH has no economy storage servers: they...

I'd be more interested if the amount of ram was a lot higher.  I've seen a couple of high-ram offers in the past week which just seemed astounding.  That said, I don't have an immediate need for it.  I would have jumped on it a few years ago when I was doing stuff that wanted it.  I'd also be...

I just have a nickname for each one, with an /etc/hosts entry for each nickname.  The exception is lowendspirit since I don't have ipv6 at home at the moment, so I have shell aliases to ssh to the NATted ssh ports.  For various reasons I decided not to point any DNS at most of them.  Maybe DNS...

It's true that you get 8 cores, but they are not all that fast (L5520 = 4416 Passmark per cpubenchmark.info, and you get two of those, so 8832 total).  It's comparable to a single E3-1230 or thereabouts. If the monthly rental is less than 1/6th or so of the hardware price, you're doing ok. I...

Kind of interesting, I'm thinking about it, not sure what I'd do with it.  Is there ipv6?