@decryption not to mention this fills the need between "Self-hosted / Colocated Petabytes" and "Sketchy Filehosters" that many places may have.
- Obviously since it's their drive and their VM they'd still have some decently sized "warm offsite storage" to use in a pinch, not just for backups but like transfering and sharing data.
I'd not be surprised if small businesses would just mail-in an #ExaDrive (or similarly high-capacity, slow SSD) ...
@decryption I guess you gonna provision said VMs with passthrough to the drive(s) paid for and just let it boot into a "ROM" with like a minimalist linux that barely runs like dropbear and only gets customized with the SSH-Pubkey of said client to allow only them to login.
- After all, people should use this as mere "data storage" and not much more.
Consider #mkroot ( #toybox) and maybe add vsftpd or Pure-FTPd to it if you don't want a full phat debian on it?
Certainly you don't want people to abuse your box for shitcoin mining...
@OS1337 sadly isn't ready yet for such a setup...