So I bought this $3/month vps from Hostinger 18 months ago lol. Figured it would die in a month Packet loss like 3-4% random times, they do "network maintenance" like 3x a month always at 3am my time. Lost all my data once when they migrated and "forgot" to move my block storage But honestly? Learned more about backups and monitoring from this trash fire than any $20 vps. Worth it if ur broke and wanna learn. Still running a static site and a wireguard node on it somehow
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Did you have any backups at all when the data loss happened? I just got a cheap vps for school and now im worried! Should I use rsync or something else?
Hostinger's "maintenance" is just them rebooting the node when it ooms from overselling. Anyway I had one there too, used it to run a tor relay at 3am for six months before they canned me. Idk why I do this. Here's my monitoring setup from that era, still works:
#!/bin/bash
curl -sf hostinger.com || echo "$(date) dead again" >> /var/log/racknerds.txt
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3am maintenance every week and you stayed for 18 months
Same "forgot" my storage once
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I learned more from broken hosts than stable ones tbh
So rsync or what? I need something simple for a student budget, don't have money for backblaze or whatever
rsync to another cheap box, or even to your laptop if it's on. I use borgbackup to a Hetzner Storage Box now, EUR 3.81 for 100GB. Way more reliable than Hostinger's "block storage" which is just NFS over a wet string apparently