Vultr Storage Instance Availability
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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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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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@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:
https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-boxAlso, you can get Nextcloud for the same price.
https://www.hetzner.com/storage/nextcloudOnly 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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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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@Curtis The way they list features of the Hetzner "Storage Boxes" doesn't sound like a VPS.
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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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@EddieJennings the site still says "temporarily" sold out. That doesn't sound like it is officially deprecated.
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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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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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@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.
