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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller @CloudKnight
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      @StuartJordan said in Vultr Storage Instance Availability:

      People want storage instances though.....

      Yeah, people REALLY want them. There is clearly a good business model here.

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller
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        If you are doing SATA drives, in RAID 10... let's do the math. What is that per host?

        Vultr pricing was, I believe, $5 at 125GB, $10 at 250GB, $20 at 500GB, and $40 at 1TB. Sound correct?

        Assuming you did 8TB drives, 20 of them in RAID 10. That's 80TB of usable in a single host. That's not an unreasonable number. That's 80 x $40 for $3,200 per server, per month income. Now of course you have all of the datacenter and backup costs to go with that. And that requires 100% density to hit that. But that is a butt load of money for a single server node. That's nearly $40K per server, per year.

        Easy to make a business model out of that quickly. Especially since CPU and RAM are not that dense on those nodes, and having the latest hardware is not really a concern.

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          Curtis @scottalanmiller
          last edited by Curtis

          @scottalanmiller said in Vultr Storage Instance Availability:

          Vultr pricing was, I believe, $5 at 125GB, $10 at 250GB, $20 at 500GB, and $40 at 1TB. Sound correct?

          That's pretty expensive when you compare it to Hetzner Storage Boxes:

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          https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box

          Also, you can get Nextcloud for the same price.

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          https://www.hetzner.com/storage/nextcloud

          Only available in Germany, so that might be an issue for some, but I have had no issues from anywhere in the world.

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          • EddieJenningsE
            EddieJennings
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            Maybe the person was just misinformed. If those plans were deprecated and not going to be available, it seems odd that they still appear as a potential type of server to deploy.

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              bnrstnr @Curtis
              last edited by bnrstnr

              @Curtis The way they list features of the Hetzner "Storage Boxes" doesn't sound like a VPS.

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller @Curtis
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                @Curtis not comparable from what I can tell. Hetzner is providing an application on a shared platform. Vultr was offering normal IaaS that was storage heavy. SaaS vs IaaS. Quite different.

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                • Reid CooperR
                  Reid Cooper
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                  @EddieJennings the site still says "temporarily" sold out. That doesn't sound like it is officially deprecated.

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller
                    last edited by

                    I opened a ticket with Vultr myself and this was their response: "Storage Instances are indeed a deprecated plan that we no longer offer. At this time we do not see any future plans to replenish and offer this plan again."

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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller
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                      I asked Vultr to modify the notice so that people wouldn't keep being told that they were temporarily sold out.

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                      • EddieJenningsE
                        EddieJennings @scottalanmiller
                        last edited by

                        @scottalanmiller said in Vultr Storage Instance Availability:

                        I asked Vultr to modify the notice so that people wouldn't keep being told that they were temporarily sold out.

                        Thanks.

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