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    • DustinB3403D
      DustinB3403
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      Snipe-it

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        bnrstnr
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        Ubnt UNMS, Pihole DNS, WordPress, Dokuwiki, Nextcloud... and probably many more systems/apps.

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        • brandon220B
          brandon220
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          Unifi Controller, Nextcloud

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          • bbigfordB
            bbigford @bnrstnr
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            @bnrstnr said in Uses for VPS:

            Ubnt UNMS, Pihole DNS, WordPress, Dokuwiki, Nextcloud... and probably many more systems/apps.

            How much space are you using with NextCloud? What kinds of content are you storing out there? Can't imagine you're streaming from it... For things like photos and documents, it didn't seem like the packages for mass storage were incredibly affordable over long periods of time. Block storage, 500GB going for $50/month. If I were to buy a ReadyNAS or Synology NAS at around $600 with disks, I'd break even at a year...

            Edit: Tagging @brandon220 as well.

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            • DustinB3403D
              DustinB3403 @bbigford
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              @bbigford said in Uses for VPS:

              @bnrstnr said in Uses for VPS:

              Ubnt UNMS, Pihole DNS, WordPress, Dokuwiki, Nextcloud... and probably many more systems/apps.

              How much space are you using with NextCloud? Didn't seem like the packages for mass storage were incredibly affordable over long periods of time. Block storage, 500GB going for $50/month. If I were to buy a ReadyNAS or Synology NAS at around $600 with disks, I'd break even at a year...

              Edit: Tagging @brandon220 as well.

              The offset is the reliability over the life of the files, not just the hardware.

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              • bbigfordB
                bbigford @DustinB3403
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                @dustinb3403 said in Uses for VPS:

                @bbigford said in Uses for VPS:

                @bnrstnr said in Uses for VPS:

                Ubnt UNMS, Pihole DNS, WordPress, Dokuwiki, Nextcloud... and probably many more systems/apps.

                How much space are you using with NextCloud? Didn't seem like the packages for mass storage were incredibly affordable over long periods of time. Block storage, 500GB going for $50/month. If I were to buy a ReadyNAS or Synology NAS at around $600 with disks, I'd break even at a year...

                Edit: Tagging @brandon220 as well.

                The offset is the reliability over the life of the files, not just the hardware.

                As in, not having to worry about replacing the hardware in the event of a failure, and copying backups over to new hardware? I thought even with a VPS, you should still use some kind of backup... Unless I'm misunderstanding what you meant initially.

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                • DustinB3403D
                  DustinB3403 @bbigford
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                  @bbigford said in Uses for VPS:

                  @dustinb3403 said in Uses for VPS:

                  @bbigford said in Uses for VPS:

                  @bnrstnr said in Uses for VPS:

                  Ubnt UNMS, Pihole DNS, WordPress, Dokuwiki, Nextcloud... and probably many more systems/apps.

                  How much space are you using with NextCloud? Didn't seem like the packages for mass storage were incredibly affordable over long periods of time. Block storage, 500GB going for $50/month. If I were to buy a ReadyNAS or Synology NAS at around $600 with disks, I'd break even at a year...

                  Edit: Tagging @brandon220 as well.

                  The offset is the reliability over the life of the files, not just the hardware.

                  As in, not having to worry about replacing the hardware in the event of a failure, and copying backups over to new hardware? I thought even with a VPS, you should still use some kind of backup... Unless I'm misunderstanding what you meant initially.

                  You would have a backup, but the vps provider can do that for you. Completely hands off.

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                  • bbigfordB
                    bbigford @DustinB3403
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                    @dustinb3403 said in Uses for VPS:

                    @bbigford said in Uses for VPS:

                    @dustinb3403 said in Uses for VPS:

                    @bbigford said in Uses for VPS:

                    @bnrstnr said in Uses for VPS:

                    Ubnt UNMS, Pihole DNS, WordPress, Dokuwiki, Nextcloud... and probably many more systems/apps.

                    How much space are you using with NextCloud? Didn't seem like the packages for mass storage were incredibly affordable over long periods of time. Block storage, 500GB going for $50/month. If I were to buy a ReadyNAS or Synology NAS at around $600 with disks, I'd break even at a year...

                    Edit: Tagging @brandon220 as well.

                    The offset is the reliability over the life of the files, not just the hardware.

                    As in, not having to worry about replacing the hardware in the event of a failure, and copying backups over to new hardware? I thought even with a VPS, you should still use some kind of backup... Unless I'm misunderstanding what you meant initially.

                    You would have a backup, but the vps provider can do that for you. Completely hands off.

                    Just noticed that specifically Vultr offers a backup, but only on compute instances (not block storage). https://www.vultr.com/docs/vps-automatic-backups

                    But I suppose that could vary from provider to provider.

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                    • stacksofplatesS
                      stacksofplates @bbigford
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                      @bbigford said in Uses for VPS:

                      @dustinb3403 said in Uses for VPS:

                      @bbigford said in Uses for VPS:

                      @bnrstnr said in Uses for VPS:

                      Ubnt UNMS, Pihole DNS, WordPress, Dokuwiki, Nextcloud... and probably many more systems/apps.

                      How much space are you using with NextCloud? Didn't seem like the packages for mass storage were incredibly affordable over long periods of time. Block storage, 500GB going for $50/month. If I were to buy a ReadyNAS or Synology NAS at around $600 with disks, I'd break even at a year...

                      Edit: Tagging @brandon220 as well.

                      The offset is the reliability over the life of the files, not just the hardware.

                      As in, not having to worry about replacing the hardware in the event of a failure, and copying backups over to new hardware? I thought even with a VPS, you should still use some kind of backup... Unless I'm misunderstanding what you meant initially.

                      Right and for $50 a month you could get 2TB of space for 4 people on Dropbox for teams. The individual account would get you 1TB for $20 a month. I had thought of having a NextCloud instance but it's usually just cheaper to use an SaaS instead.

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                      • ObsolesceO
                        Obsolesce
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                        A SaltStack Master server.

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                        • ObsolesceO
                          Obsolesce
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                          Web hosting

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                          • bbigfordB
                            bbigford @Obsolesce
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                            @tim_g said in Uses for VPS:

                            A SaltStack Master server.

                            I have yet to learn SaltStack. Way behind.

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                            • DustinB3403D
                              DustinB3403 @bbigford
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                              @bbigford said in Uses for VPS:

                              @tim_g said in Uses for VPS:

                              A SaltStack Master server.

                              I have yet to learn SaltStack. Way behind.

                              I want to as well I just have no idea where to begin with it.

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                                flaxking @DustinB3403
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                                @dustinb3403 said in Uses for VPS:

                                @bbigford said in Uses for VPS:

                                @tim_g said in Uses for VPS:

                                A SaltStack Master server.

                                I have yet to learn SaltStack. Way behind.

                                I want to as well I just have no idea where to begin with it.

                                https://docs.saltstack.com/en/getstarted/

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                                • ObsolesceO
                                  Obsolesce @DustinB3403
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                                  @dustinb3403 said in Uses for VPS:

                                  @bbigford said in Uses for VPS:

                                  @tim_g said in Uses for VPS:

                                  A SaltStack Master server.

                                  I have yet to learn SaltStack. Way behind.

                                  I want to as well I just have no idea where to begin with it.

                                  I've got a guide on my blog to get it set up with gitlab.

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                                  • black3dynamiteB
                                    black3dynamite @DustinB3403
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                                    @dustinb3403 said in Uses for VPS:

                                    @bbigford said in Uses for VPS:

                                    @tim_g said in Uses for VPS:

                                    A SaltStack Master server.

                                    I have yet to learn SaltStack. Way behind.

                                    I want to as well I just have no idea where to begin with it.

                                    You can do something simple like installing or updating Windows clients that has chocolatey and apps that are installed via choco.

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                                    • scottalanmillerS
                                      scottalanmiller
                                      last edited by scottalanmiller

                                      We use it for literally everything. Some of our workloads include our web servers, and DNS filtering (Pi-Hole), our system monitoring (Zabbix), log collection, email (Zimbra), file serving and storage (NextCloud), our jump boxes, application development, application hosting, IM and chat systems like Rocket.chat, our documentation systems, system management servers like Salt for us, telephony, etc. If we have a workload, that's where it is (Vultr, for us.)

                                      And, of course, MangoLassi is on a Linode VPS server.

                                      SodiumSuite is as well.

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                                        bnrstnr @bbigford
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                                        @bbigford said in Uses for VPS:

                                        How much space are you using with NextCloud? What kinds of content are you storing out there? Can't imagine you're streaming from it...

                                        We have a 500GB storage instance on Vultr for $20 a month. We primarily use it for sharing CAD drawings with customers.

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                                        • dbeatoD
                                          dbeato
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                                          We use it for UNMS, Unifi Controller, Zimbra and NextCloud.

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                                          • bbigfordB
                                            bbigford @bnrstnr
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                                            @bnrstnr said in Uses for VPS:

                                            @bbigford said in Uses for VPS:

                                            How much space are you using with NextCloud? What kinds of content are you storing out there? Can't imagine you're streaming from it...

                                            We have a 500GB storage instance on Vultr for $20 a month. We primarily use it for sharing CAD drawings with customers.

                                            How are you getting it for $20 for 500GB? They are advertising $50/monthly, currently...

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