also still deciding to get a rack in a datacenter or DIY it in a cheap warehouse (getting some quotes for full rack co-location), I prefer the DC as that's where servers belong, but the warehouse will be useful for storing a bunch of shit I have here and I can sublet the space to some friends to offset the costs
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@decryption mmm yes this very interesting.
How do you think initial setup would work when there’s no inbound SSH? And how do you access the console in case network fucks up? CPanel or something?
@decryption Looks interesting. The Amazon S3 Glacier maths doesn't look right (outbound data is bigger than total price); but in any case, the "outbound data" only kicks in if you restore every piece of data on the drive, which isn't too likely.
You got me wondering what I'm paying. My S3 bill is US$10.60 a month; looks like I'm only storing 187GB though. 181GB of that is not Glacier stored, either - live-to-the-web cached image resizes. (Not bad storage after about 18 years using it. I rsync most of my filestores to it every week - non-destructive rsync which never deletes anything. Mind you, it's really very hard to find out exactly how much I have, and where.)
The "gotcha" with Glacier is the wait time for the files to be restored; otherwise, your 28TB is cheaper than $1day.
@james I just used the calculator here https://calculator.aws/
@decryption I enjoyed the rabbithole looking into my S3 bill though! It turns out that because my webserver is in Dublin, but my S3 bucket is in east-1, I am paying for much more bandwidth than I need, since traffic between different regions is paid-for. Not simple to move it, but I think it might be worth it.
(Your pricing probably therefore includes the free-tier discount).
@james AWS pricing is so confusing and complicated :(
@decryption is there a maximum number of drives per VPS?
@sjtrny nup, but it’s $1 a day per drive
@decryption unless it’s a massive hard drive that feels quite expensive. I can get 3-4TB cloud storage for a good chunk less than $365 year.
@decryption Quite possibly yes.
