Yeah, I would go a cheap server with OwnCloud. Good advice there.
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Yeah, I would go a cheap server with OwnCloud. Good advice there.
DrJohnZoidberg
Honorary Master
Still waiting for my account to be validated, had to send through ID verification. At this price I guess they don't spend too much on customer support. The price is still amazing though, if this was hosted in SA, 90% of that cost would go to just paying the electricity!
shadow_man
Executive Member
Validation can take a while unfortunately. I had to send mine through a few times. The good thing is that once your account is validated you never have to do it again, so its a once off headache.
Online.net on the other hand don't ask for validation at all. I bought 4 of these on a black friday type special:
http://www.online.net/en/dedicated-server/dedibox-kidechire
Even managed to get lucky and one had a 500GB SSHD disk instead of a 160GB spinning disk
They also come with a 100GB FTP backup account as well, which is nice for handing off backups on the cheap.I've got:
1x transmission and plex
1x opensource monitoring distribution (check_mk + nagios)
1x download mirror for things
1x spare
Works well.
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DrJohnZoidberg
Honorary Master
Validation can take a while unfortunately. I had to send mine through a few times. The good thing is that once your account is validated you never have to do it again, so its a once off headache.
Online.net on the other hand don't ask for validation at all. I bought 4 of these on a black friday type special:
http://www.online.net/en/dedicated-server/dedibox-kidechire
Even managed to get lucky and one had a 500GB SSHD disk instead of a 160GB spinning disk
I've got:
1x transmission and plex
1x opensource monitoring distribution (check_mk + nagios)
1x download mirror for things
1x spare
Works well.
Haha, got my account validated today finally.
Now I have to wait for stock to open up again. I see there is an option available in the US datacenter but would prefer the Euro one for latency (also not keen on only 8GB memory).
shadow_man
Executive Member
Another good options is Hetzner server acutions (if you can up your budget to about 30EU a month). You can land an i7 with 16-32GB of ram and 3x 2TB disks!
You can also check the US Kimsufi site - pay in dollars though (not sure if it works out more or less exp), but the stock levels seem to differ to the other site.
http://www.kimsufi.com/us/en/index.xml
DrJohnZoidberg
Honorary Master
Yep thanks, I've checked that one. There's an i3 available but only 8GB RAM.
Checked the Hetzner servers too now, they're a bit pricier though and it doesn't look like they offer any virtualisation mangers (http://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Standardimages/en)?
Thanks to your advice I actually purchased two of these servers the other day for backup storage.
Each server was I7, 16GB RAM, 2x2TB hard disks (which I put into raid1). Awesomesauce. Cheaper than backupsy and now with spare CPU to play with
Microsoft announced a while ago that the 1TB OneDrive storage that is included with Office 365 subscriptions is going to be changed to unlimited storage from sometime this year.
SauRoNZA
Honorary Master
Yeah. I hope the price doesn't become Unlimited too.
Doubt it. MS is all about affordability these days. Office 365 has been a big hit for them. Can't see them wanting to jeopardise it.
DrJohnZoidberg
Honorary Master
I eventually went with a Heztner auction for 24 Euro pm.
Kimsufi is useless. They took a month to validate my account and cancelled my initial order in the process, have been trying to get stock ever since but it's like trying pick up R200 notes in a crowded stadium.
I ordered a mean server from Hetzner, the asked me to send validation documents and after sending they activated my account in less than 5 minutes, I shit you not. Documents send 15:08, account details received 15:12.
Good ol' German efficiency!
If anyone is interested it's a Intel Core i7-2600 with 16GB memory and 2 x 3TB disks. They don't offer Proxmox VE like Kimsufi but they do have Debian, on which I can install Proxmox myself. Going to test out over the weekend.
Kimsufi is useless. They took a month to validate my account and cancelled my initial order in the process, have been trying to get stock ever since but it's like trying pick up R200 notes in a crowded stadium.
I ordered a mean server from Hetzner, the asked me to send validation documents and after sending they activated my account in less than 5 minutes, I shit you not. Documents send 15:08, account details received 15:12.
Good ol' German efficiency!
If anyone is interested it's a Intel Core i7-2600 with 16GB memory and 2 x 3TB disks. They don't offer Proxmox VE like Kimsufi but they do have Debian, on which I can install Proxmox myself. Going to test out over the weekend.
DrJohnZoidberg
Honorary Master
Happy
DrJohnZoidberg
Honorary Master
Everything working like a charm so far.
Have installed a Centos OpenVZ container with Plex on it to stress test the box, runs smooth. Maxes out my 40Mbit line and transfers to the box itself run at close to 100MB/sec, it's pretty insane. Glad I didn't go for the Kimsufi box, it's internet network is limited to 150Mbps. Plex also very happily transcodes 1080p (but I would expect that of a core i7).
I also only have one public IP at the moment, but with Hetzner you can purchase more, for now I'm just natting which is working fine.
I would highly recommend Hetzner auctioned servers for test beds and development boxes or for personal use. Just don't use these in production as they are recycled servers with minimal technical support.
Thanks @jsheed_sa for the top tip!
Have installed a Centos OpenVZ container with Plex on it to stress test the box, runs smooth. Maxes out my 40Mbit line and transfers to the box itself run at close to 100MB/sec, it's pretty insane. Glad I didn't go for the Kimsufi box, it's internet network is limited to 150Mbps. Plex also very happily transcodes 1080p (but I would expect that of a core i7).
I also only have one public IP at the moment, but with Hetzner you can purchase more, for now I'm just natting which is working fine.
I would highly recommend Hetzner auctioned servers for test beds and development boxes or for personal use. Just don't use these in production as they are recycled servers with minimal technical support.
Thanks @jsheed_sa for the top tip!
faniebraai
RIP
Did you install plex server on the box? Do you use it to download content? And then stream from it at home with plex home theatre?
DrJohnZoidberg
Honorary Master
Yes, installed Plex Server. I haven't downloaded any real content on to the server, I was using it for testing and just used a 1080p copy of Sintel to stream.
And yes, it streams to PHT like a beast. No transcoding necessary if your internet connection can handle the streams bitrate. There seems to be less bandwidth available when you're not direct playing though as it remuxes or transcodes the stream and pushes it out in segments, and then latency starts messing with your throughput. I was able to push about 8Mbits on transcoded/remuxed streams.
DrJohnZoidberg
Honorary Master
DrJohnZoidberg
Honorary Master
I wouldn't really use these at backup servers unless you pay extra for backup storage with Hetzner.
These servers are all recycled so these disks aren't new, in fact the disks in my server have a power on value of over 3 years. Mine are in RAID1 but that's hardly reassuring.
Here are the costs of Hetzners backup options for these servers:
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100 GB Backup space (Price (monthly): € 4.12 / Setup (once): € 4.12)
500 GB Backup space (Price (monthly): € 8.32 / Setup (once): € 8.32)
2,000 GB Backup space (Price (monthly): € 16.72 / Setup (once): € 16.72)
5,000 GB Backup space (Price (monthly): € 37.73 / Setup (once): € 37.73)
10,000 GB Backup space (Price (monthly): € 67.14 / Setup (once): € 67.14