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    • EddieJenningsE
      EddieJennings
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      I check Vultr everyone so often to see if Storage Instances are ever available (and they never are). I contacted them to try to get some pricing on the off-chance they are available, so I could price out whether or not I'd want to use one.

      The first response was a link to their pricing page. I responded to that with a screen shot of where I could deploy storage instances and explained those prices aren't on the page.

      Vultr's response:
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      Methinks if you have a storage instance already, hang on to it.

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      • CloudKnightC
        CloudKnight @EddieJennings
        last edited by

        @EddieJennings I've also looked at them instances months ago and found the same issue.

        Seems strange that they are never available, think they need to tackle their supply and demand on this one lol.

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller
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          Why is it deprecated if it is in such crazy high demand?

          And I asked them about this not that long ago and they said that there were no plans to phase it out. Grrrr...

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller
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            And they just had availability recently. Like, a month ago perhaps?

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            • CloudKnightC
              CloudKnight
              last edited by

              Ahh I just see Deprecated in that email....

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              • CloudKnightC
                CloudKnight
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                People want storage instances though.....

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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
                    last edited by

                    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
                            last edited by

                            @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
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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.

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