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What do you think of having interviews with some of the providers here, e.g. @cloudmate @HostNamaste and others? I am thinking it would be more about what got them interested in the business, a little more about their operations and what they plan for their brand in the future.. (maybe slip in a couple of personal questions as well.. haha).
I wonder what will happen to the pricing of Linode servers in the long run. They were one of the original 5$ VPS guys. I had a server with them for a while until I decided to get into a BF deal from Virmach as I was just hosting websites.
Since STORJ is a token on ETH, they ran into troubles when making payments to node operators when gas fees were high. The new rule was to make payments to an operator only when your node made atleast 4x the gas fee at the time of the payment. With increasing gas fees, you had to start making serious amounts to get paid. They announced you could enable your node to accept L2 payments using a secondary chain (zksync) on top of ETH. You have to make a one time payment in ETH to enable zkSync (which has a non-custodial wallet) and you start getting your node payments every month, even if it is like 0.3 STORJ.
You can move your STORJ to the main wallet which requires a one-time payment of gas fees which can be done in STORJ itself (no need of ETH on your zksync wallet). I decided to go for this as I had to reinstall a server due to the provider changing DCs and lost what I had accumulated.
Not recommending STORJ as a great way to earn crypto.. but if you have something idle, letting it run would be a nice idea (esp. with L2 payments). STORJ doesn't block your storage unless it is used, so you could tell the app to use upto 2TB on your server, but keep using the server for other things.. If you ended up using 1TB for backups, just restart the storj docker app to use only 1TB.
Yeah, it is not rewarding as well as it it when it started. I think I made about 200 STORJ initially and sold it when it was about 2$. Haven't made much after that..
Did you try after the introduced L2 payments using zksync? You get monthly payouts even if you don't meet the high gas fee threshold (probably like 25$ worth).. and finally can move it to an exchange using STORJ instead of ETH
Everyone is talking about crypto mining, and the requirements for mining coins has gone way beyond something that is profitable. If you have 550GB free space on any server and supports docker, you can try to mine STORJ (https://storj.io). The price of the token is $1.18 USD right now. Fair warning, it takes atleast 6 months to really see tokens flow in, as your node gets slowly filled up and gets a good reputation.
If folks are interested, I will do a write-up on how to set this up.
Getting storage servers on deals, I have about 7.5TB spread across 4 servers (1x1.5TB Servarica, 1x2TB Servarica, 2x2TB Greencloud), I need to make about 20 $STORJ per month to be profitable. Sometimes it is frustrating, I had to reset the 1.5TB Servarica node twice in two years, losing about 10 $STORJ in the process. I have my reservations, but for some reason, I am persisting with this. It appears easier to mine than CHIA or FILECOIN
I recently setup a Servarica BF server as a remote backup of DirectAdmin users. It was surprising that their BF sale units are still available now (https://clients.servarica.com/store/black-friday-2021). The box is a Polar Bear Storage Offer. Specs are
Let's start with the YABS
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Mon Jan 10 12:27:06 EST 2022
Basic System Information:
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Processor : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 v2 @ 2.60GHz
CPU cores : 2 @ 2593.867 MHz
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
RAM : 1.8 GiB
Swap : 1024.0 MiB
Disk : 2.0 TiB
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
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Block Size | 4k (IOPS) | 64k (IOPS)
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Read | 24.26 MB/s (6.0k) | 152.11 MB/s (2.3k)
Write | 24.27 MB/s (6.0k) | 152.92 MB/s (2.3k)
Total | 48.53 MB/s (12.1k) | 305.03 MB/s (4.7k)
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Block Size | 512k (IOPS) | 1m (IOPS)
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Read | 163.50 MB/s (319) | 158.09 MB/s (154)
Write | 172.19 MB/s (336) | 168.61 MB/s (164)
Total | 335.70 MB/s (655) | 326.70 MB/s (318)
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
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Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed
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Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 942 Mbits/sec | 915 Mbits/sec
Online.net | Paris, FR (10G) | 921 Mbits/sec | 912 Mbits/sec
WorldStream | The Netherlands (10G) | busy | 912 Mbits/sec
WebHorizon | Singapore (400M) | 177 Mbits/sec | 167 Mbits/sec
Clouvider | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 1.19 Gbits/sec | 955 Mbits/sec
Velocity Online | Tallahassee, FL, US (10G) | 1.07 Gbits/sec | 940 Mbits/sec
Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 881 Mbits/sec | 849 Mbits/sec
Iveloz Telecom | Sao Paulo, BR (2G) | 375 Mbits/sec | 881 Mbits/sec
Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test:
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Test | Value
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Single Core | 560
Multi Core | 1063
Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/12097158
I am not bothered about I/O speeds, since it is a HDD and also a server that is used for remote backups. Connectivity was the main point. I switched the setting to the 1Gbps with 4TB limit instead of the unlimited 100mbps. The above speeds clearly indicate a good network. The uptime of the server (service provisioned since Jan 10) is at 100%.
This is my third server with Servarica. The newer 2TB servers are more responsive than a 1.5TB server I have from 2 years ago. I attribute it to newer hardware. As a backup server, I would recommend them. Do any of you have experience with this provider? Comments welcome
Agree @cloudmate GoDaddy tops my list of companies to avoid. I guess it is time to add BlueHost as well.
I have a bunch of idle servers. Initially, I had grand dreams of running applications on most of them. When I start a project, I would like to pick the right server based on CPU/Disk and Virtualization type. I found a idle server tracker (self hosted) here - https://github.com/cp6/my-idlers
Demo - https://myidlers.srv3r.com/
Have any of you tried it? Or do you have alternatives? Currently, my servers are in a table on coda.io
Yes, in general yes, you need a bit of technical knowledge as you are responsible for any installation/setup. However, how much really depends on what you want to do. If it is a simple web server, you can find a lot of useful guides that are specific to your Linux distro. There are one click install scripts that do most of the stuff for you.
What are you looking to do on the VPS?
@DeluxeNames said:
@abytecurious said:
After the Hostsolutions.ro fiasco, I am looking for some storage servers (>1TB storage) for the cheapest price. It doesn't need a lot of computing power, even a 512MB RAM node should work and a lower end CPU would work. Looking to pay annually, if that helps in getting cheaper options.So sorry about what happened with HostSolutions & hoping you didn't lose too much data. How is letbox working out & do you recommend them?
Just signed up a couple of days ago. Haven't fully setup the box & monitoring on it. Looks like virmach is trying to generate interest for a 30$/yr 1TB storage box.
