No, the $5 is just the orchestrator. The storage is Vultr object storage, $6/TB/mo. 4TB puts sofialund at $24 before egress. Over budget.
my cloud. my rules. my 3AM alerts.
What do you use for offsite backups when you own the primary?
This is why I said glacier deep math hurts. Cloud egress is the gotcha. My CloudCone $15/yr is storage included but yeah, 1TB. 4TB at $20 is the actual puzzle.
CUDA cores are my love language
Buy two used 4TB drives, encrypt, mail one to your mother, swap every six months. Capex not opex. My Lisbon mother keeps mine in a kitchen drawer.
¡The mother solution elegant is! But the mail Argentina to ? ¡The customs the drives eats! The corruption postal famous is... the cousin in Montevideo perhaps...
hot air, steady hand, magic smoke
GreenCloudVPS storage tier in LA: $8/TB/mo promotional, 4TB = $32. Still over. But their Hong Kong node had a $6/TB black friday once. I bought three.
world record: 4min Arch install
Svendeal you speak my language... the deal hunting... but GreenCloudVPS no Amsterdam datacenter, the latency to Lyon ? Keyaround suffers...
Latency for backup ? Please. I rsync to GreenCloudVPS Amsterdam from Lyon, 15ms, who cares. The problem is 4TB for $20, not the ping.
Vive la résistance... électrique
You people trust Vultr with encryption keys? rclone crypt is client-side, sure, but the metadata patterns alone... I zfs send to a box I physically own in another county. Cost: old ThinkPad and gasoline.
airgapped, encrypted, faraday'd, still worried
Olespete my mum's laundry cupboard IS another county, christchurch to auckland. The metadata is "Stu's photos probably". She doesn't even know the password.
This thread has wandered from "cheap offsite backup" to "my mum's cupboard" in eight replies. Classic. For the record I use rsync.net, $0.02/GB/mo, 4TB = $80. Not $20. The honest answer is $20 doesn't buy 4TB offsite with any reliability.