@kkarhan yep exactly, particularly if you have more than a few TB of data (photos, videos, etc)
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@decryption Any chance of a #IPv6 /64 GUA instead of IPv4 NAT/cludge?? Is it user choice for OS? I assume disk is passed through for native access?
@Tubsta I鈥檓 an ipv6 noob but I don鈥檛 see why not! Any OS is fine (I鈥檇 ask during the signup form) and yep entire disk is attached to your VM as a block device
@decryption @Tubsta mmmm, an IPv6-only disk is mighty tempting...
@Tubsta @decryption Precisely. Might have to brush up on my zfs send from unencrypted to encrypted datasets...
@phs @decryption RAW send is your friend. Also, as your boot is 40GB on SSD, you could use geli FDE and have a zpool behind that.
@decryption mmm yes this very interesting.
How do you think initial setup would work when there鈥檚 no inbound SSH? And how do you access the console in case network fucks up? CPanel or something?
@jpm you get SSH! (just won鈥檛 be on port 22) but you can also send the HDD preloaded with data so you don鈥檛 have to do a huge initial backup
console access TBA - it can be done just not sure how exactly is most practical
@decryption Will you monitor the disks for SMART errors?
@lakeswimmer yep, plan is to expose the SMART data to the customer via a dashboard and some email alerts (currently experimenting with some stuff)
@decryption Cool. I've been thinking about something similar but where I host someone's disk and they host mine and we get all commie about it and it's free.
@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鈥檚 $1 a day per drive
@decryption unless it鈥檚 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.
