Cheapest & Future (Decentralized)

• Filecoin & IPFS (SIA, Storj,...)
  • some latency, not designed for small files / databases
  • might comes with 3 country locations by default / always

More:

• OVH kimsufi 4 x 2TB (not very convenient & only when on sale) - but you can set you can set ZFS deduplication and compression
• Rare Hetzner auctions with clunky things like 15 x 6TB

Small companies:

• Servarica ZFS

New:

• bulkvm (since june) (testing, but unfortunately didnt answer me anymore and why not just a little more ram?)

Gone:

• Google drive unlimited

@servarica_hani can you give me any coupon or custom offer <= $2 / TB of secure storage? (under NDA if you will) - When you sell ZFS double paritiy, what host systems are that? Can i get triple parity too? And will the zfs pool span a big server, so that customers profit from deduplication?
( https://lowendbox.com/blog/got-burned-on-crypto-invest-in-a-servarica-cheap-vps-your-storage-grows-every-day/ by @raindog308 )

I watch your dynamic offers including some RAM and SSD but then it gets much more expensive.
Currently i only use ~10 TB of HDD storage + backup and only ~5 mbit average.

2. Harddrives are mostly only for backups and log data, while for sorting & refining data, of course one needs SSD & RAM sometimes (and some always, for caching and ZFS). - Yet I still work only on 64GB DDR4 (as avaiable for $5 from OVH at times. No SSD. And 100ms latency to my storage...)
   QUESTION OF THE DAY:
   WHY IS THERE NO COMPETITIVE SSD HOST?
   The SSD hosting prices are crazy by now, when actually buying SSD servers starts around $20/TB. (a 2020 Server with 24 x 8 TB NVMe, might costs $4000 and power consumption of SSDs is minimal. So despite the performance the prices are similar to HDD now. SSD can be even cheaper considering wear down, electricity and no hardware failures. (The 95th quantile of load or write speed could be limited therefore for low budget plans (almost nobody will constantly use the crazy high speed) - Yet as of now, my non-profit projects still can't afford hosted SSDs (like commerce can usually) (but my project are held back to HDD speeds, as if it was 20 or 30 years ago.
   So of course i wonder to buy an SSD server, but why would i really have to? isn't that strange? Why does Nobodies offers such machine for an acceptable rent?

• Contabo gives 2400GB storage VPS "SSD" starting at 12,6€ ("-10% sales"), but they have 1 star on google and reviews and terms that these can be lost anytime with no backup (no raid even?) .

New York and Seattle areas