I used to rock a bare metal 1Tib HDD server for 17€/month, that I used as an NFS server for all my other servers which needed storage space.
First of all, NFS kinda sucks and I'm looking for alternative solution that I can use on OpenBSD to mount remote volumes.
Secondly, I'm planning to move this server to hetzner (my current provider), but they lack affordable storage (it's 50€/month for 1Tib). Do you know an hosting provider which would provide high volumes for not so expensive prices ?
I ise backblaze for backups already. But is an S3 backend any good for mounting locally and doing many read/write ? What are my options to mount it besides rclone ?
Google and dropbox are ~10€ a month for 2 TB. Idk is that solution for you, but I would consider building NAS at home. I mean...this is selfhosted channel :)
For backup I use backblaze, but thats cheap only if you dont download a lot, also not sure can it be used for your case. Sry, not rly helpful (:
I'm never going with Google/Dropbox ^^ the goal is to be in control of my data. Backblaze could be an option, but I expect too many read/writee for it to be cheap.
I considered the NAS at home but my home net is not reliable enough.
TBH I'm still looking for a better option to share storage between servers other than NFS. There has to be something better in 2023!
NFS kinda sucks and I'm looking for alternative solution
Rsync + cron? If you just need to backup some files/directories.
Edit: ah, saw that you will read/write a lot. Do you really need to do that over the network? Why not upload a .tar, a snapshot or whatever of the changes?
If you could be a bit more specific then maybe we could give some better advice.
Use a seedbox if you're downloading stuff and dont have enough disk space.
The best example would be a running an email or chat server. The spool/media directories can go large pretty quick as users share pictures, gifs, ... So I would like to mount it from a remote location because the matrix server itself only has a 20G SSD for the whole OS. Rsync won't cut it there as I have a specific process writing to a location.