[mikevm]

I'd never heard of Backupsy before, looks very cool!

What is special about their VPS offering that makes it so cheap? I mean, from what I can see for an extra $2/month they let you host websites and install anything you want (except torrents, TOR or anything illegal).

I've been wanting to have an affordable VPS solution so I could be host my own stuff, and have the freedom to experiment with various development tools, and this might be a decent deal.

[pliu]

There is nothing particularly special about Backupsy as far as I can see. Just cheap simple servers with a bunch of disks in them. This type of hardware is very cheap. The software layer is equally simple - seems like just KVM and a dashboard, nothing fancy. So then low cost, low price right. Good combo.

However as you can see from the SLA (99.9%), you do have to pay something in the form of reduced redundancy and availability. If, for example, an HP RAID card freaks out and all the VM's get corrupted on your blade, well you are out of luck. That data is gone forever. It's a small risk, but it is a real one (in fact with the P410 they are using, that's actually happened to me before in production). There are lots of other things that can go wrong too. Virtualization is not all rainbows and unicorns.

In the end I think it's still a good deal if you need a backup target with phat storage in it. But if you are interested in just trying out stuff, I think Digital Ocean is a better call since they have a higher SLA (99.99%) and probably a better dashboard and it's around the same price. Backupsy, as the name implies, is made for backups.

[StavrosK]

DigitalOcean is not really comparable, they only give you 20 GB of disk. I can't use the 250 GB Backupsy gives you, but 100 GB for $5 or 50 for $3, I would sign up yesterday.

[Spittie]

If you're fine with OpenVZ and being in the USA, RamNode (http://www.ramnode.com/index.php) offer 50gb for 2$/month and 120gb for 7.50$/month (And it's ssd-cached space). You can even use a coupon like "leb35' to get 35% discount forever.

Note: Not affiliate in any way with RamNode, just an happy client.

[StavrosK]

Wow, $30 a year for 90 GB, that's amazing, thank you. You've been using them and you're satisfied? Basically, all I care about at the moment is that they don't silently corrupt my data, as it's backups.

[exhilaration]

How did you get that price for that much disk space? I'm on the RamNode website and can't find a plan that matches.

[StavrosK]

I went here:

https://clientarea.ramnode.com/cart.php?gid=11

And got the 256 RAM one, it has 90 GB space. Then I used the leb35 code the GP gave me, and it comes out to $29.83 yearly.