Cheap Good and Fast Block Storage Options

[LoudLemur]

I have just started looking around and here are a few options. I am sure you all will know many good ones.

That Kamatera has some cool config options in their customized toggle.

[girish]

@LoudLemur Usually block storage is only mountable only on VPSes of the cloud provider itself. So, you cannot get a Kamatera block device and mount it in DigitalOcean server. Just another thing to consider when trying to find 'cheap' because you need to consider server prices too.

[BrutalBirdie]

Hetzner Storage Box as Data mount on an Minio app might be slow but its cheap.
(and "scalable" up to 20 TB)

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ahh Block Storage, my head read object storage like S3 / Minio.
Still Hetzner Storage bock as mount as "block storage"

[robi]

BuyVM seems to price and scale a bit better than Hetzner with their storage nodes of which multiple can be attached to any of their compute nodes, however their compute node pricing and specs are rather unattractive.

[LoudLemur]

SSDnodes do not offer dedicated block or object storage, however if I understand them correctly, they think that you could simply create an additional server on SSDnodes and use the storage that has, instead. Has anybody tried that? Since you would have a fully running VPS, you might be able to use it for some additional tasks to storage...

[jdaviescoates]

What do you actually want to do here? Store app data? Or just store backups? If just for backups, Hetzner Storage Boxes are hard to beat value wise https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box (and I've never had a problem with them).

Actually I don't only use them for backups either. I've got one set-up as a Volume mounted to my Navidrome app with all my music stored on it too.

[LoudLemur]

@jdaviescoates said in Cheap Good and Fast Block Storage Options:

What do you actually want to do?

Thanks for asking! For Cloudron backups, that is no problem. What I want is storage for app data, for example, the images in a gallery application, or the videos in a video application. From what I understand, these have to go to a block/object storage with the same VPS, as Girish explained here:
https://forum.cloudron.io/post/71151

Basically, if I understand correctly, with Cloudron, your VPS provider has to also offer block/object storage too, if you want to backup your application data on a different server. For example, Hetzner storage boxes would only be useful for app data storage if you are running your Cloudron on Hetner, too.