500GB Backup VPS (non-OVZ) close to HostDime-Orlando-DC2

[Asim]

I am looking for a 500GB Backup VPS close to HostDime Orlando DC2 location (since the daily backup size is approx 70GB that I need to push offsite)

What I need

• 500GB disk space
• 2TB + data transfer on Gigabit (I push at around 20mbit so it will not overload it)
• Close to Orlando-DC2 (any location)
• Preferably not OVZ since I cannot have encrypted volumes on OVZ

I am using Backupsy, it has been rock-solid for me without any issues like disk-corruption etc. It was been running flawlessly. The issue is disk space, backupsy does not offer the highly-discounted rates. VPSDime is good but it does not offer non-PayPal payment options.

Please suggest/advise

 

[HalfEatenPie]

Talk to @serverian ?

I mean it's incredibly difficult to get something like that.  

If Dallas, Texas is your thing then there's 500 GB KVM  

 

[qps]

Do you have a budget in mind?

 

[Jack]

What size Backupsy have you got?

 

[raindog308]

I mean it's incredibly difficult to get something like that.  

Well, depends on 

- how close

- budget

For example, a BuyVM storage VPS with 500GB of disk and 5TB of bandwidth is $15/month.  It's KVM.  But you're in either New Jersey or Las Vegas so depends on what the OP means by "close".

I'm not sure why the OP needs 1gbps if he says he's only pushing 20mbps. I think BuyVM's storage is probably shared gigabit... @Francisco ?

Another option, though OvZ: https://securedragon.net/backup.php

Another more expensive option would be AWS or Azure Linux VM.  Disk would cost but inbound bandwidth is free.

 

[HalfEatenPie]

Well, depends on 

- how close

- budget

For example, a BuyVM storage VPS with 500GB of disk and 5TB of bandwidth is $15/month.  It's KVM.  But you're in either New Jersey or Las Vegas so depends on what the OP means by "close".

I'm not sure why the OP needs 1gbps if he says he's only pushing 20mbps. I think BuyVM's storage is probably shared gigabit... @Francisco ?

Another option, though OvZ: https://securedragon.net/backup.php

Another more expensive option would be AWS or Azure Linux VM.  Disk would cost but inbound bandwidth is free.

True.  My assumption was the "limited 7 dollars a month"

 

[Asim]

Well, depends on 

- how close

- budget

For example, a BuyVM storage VPS with 500GB of disk and 5TB of bandwidth is $15/month.  It's KVM.  But you're in either New Jersey or Las Vegas so depends on what the OP means by "close".

I'm not sure why the OP needs 1gbps if he says he's only pushing 20mbps. I think BuyVM's storage is probably shared gigabit... @Francisco ?

Another option, though OvZ: https://securedragon.net/backup.php

Another more expensive option would be AWS or Azure Linux VM.  Disk would cost but inbound bandwidth is free.

I need gigabit (of course shared) just incase I need to pull off one of the backups for restoration. transferring at 20mbit is fine but recovering at 20mbit or the likes is painful

 

[Francisco]

I need gigabit (of course shared) just incase I need to pull off one of the backups for restoration. transferring at 20mbit is fine but recovering at 20mbit or the likes is painful

It's shared gbit.

We are planning to have unmetered inbound on all plans, including storages, in the coming few weeks.

We're just finalizing the changes to stallion and the upgrades to the storage nodes.

We'll have a 'Whats going on at BuyVM?' post up this week probably

Francisco

 

[Asim]

@HalfEatenPie thanks for the link, will definitely check for reviews and then go for it

@qps around $7/mo

@Jack 500G, but its 97% full now because of my backup-retention policies. I should have gone for 1TB with Backupsy, @serverian is doing an awesome job with super-stable KVM storage. I have it as LVM with encrypted volume and my uptime is better than ever

@Francisco is the disk corruption issue resolved? While I stayed there for a good couple of months, I was having this issue every once in a month where the disk would get corrupted and I had no other way but to reinstall. Tickets are there. Overall I had an awesome experience with other offerings but the Storage-KVM was a very very bumpy ride

 

[Francisco]

@Francisco is the disk corruption issue resolved? While I stayed there for a good couple of months, I was having this issue every once in a month where the disk would get corrupted and I had no other way but to reinstall. Tickets are there. Overall I had an awesome experience with other offerings but the Storage-KVM was a very very bumpy ride

That's why we moved away from RAID50. We had more than a few issues where it would bite us in the ass. We'd lose one drive and then once it was replaced, another would kick while repairing. We had one node (storage02) that refused to rebuild, period. It had been sitting 'degraded' for the past few weeks prior to the rebuilds. A few hard crashes later due to the array being marked FAILED and you end up with FSCK's. It sucked and I regretted ever going raid50.

New setup is RAID60 (raid6's in hardware w/ raid0 in software) and then a layer of SSD caching ontop of that as well as FS optimizations.

It's a huge improvement in IO latency & performance. We're likely going to send out an offer in the next 2 weeks or so and offer a free month to any storage customer that left due to issues so they can see if the new setup is more to their liking.

Francisco

 

[willie]

• 500GB disk space
• 2TB + data transfer on Gigabit (I push at around 20mbit so it will not overload it)
• Close to Orlando-DC2 (any location)
• Preferably not OVZ since I cannot have encrypted volumes on OVZ

I am using Backupsy, it has been rock-solid for me without any issues like disk-corruption etc. It was been running flawlessly. The issue is disk space, backupsy does not offer the highly-discounted rates. VPSDime is good but it does not offer non-PayPal payment options.

You should encrypt your backups at the client side rather than using volume encryption, with a public key whose private part is offline.  If you've got a persistent key on the backup server you might as well not be using encryption.  Therefore you might as well use OpenVZ.

I would think you want your backup to be far away from the client rather than close to it.  Especially in Florida where a hurricane could take out the data center and everything close to it.

VPSDime itself has cheap 500gb plans in multiple locations, and while their payment processor is paypal, you can pay with a credit card without using a paypal account.  My main reservation (I'm looking for storage plans rather than backup) is they use raid50.  For backup that is probably ok since the data is already in two places.