From Amazon Lightsail I can get this for $5 a month:
* 512 MB Memory
* 1 Core Processor
* 20 GB SSD Disk
* first 1 TB of outbound Transfer
That's a whole VPS I can put a git repo on and upload encrypted files to using ssh. So I get gigabytes of storage, secure transfer, a commit log, and can do some light other work on it. Or I could just rsync or scp them there.
GitLab is even one of their preinstall-able images, or you can pick some other application/stack (MEAN, LAMP, Nginx, Drupal, Node.js, Redmine) or a bare OS (Amazon Linux or Ubuntu) and initialize your own bare repo.
For the $20 mentioned in the post, I could set up four boxes in four AWS zones. I could configure my backup scripts to do a duplication rate of only two full copies and have roughly 40GB of stuff backed up fully duplicated in physically disparate data centers.
This isn't even getting into elastic storage offerings or paid cold storage which is dirt cheap by comparison. This is just simplified point-and-click deployment of predefined images, and it's already far more reliable for the money.
If one really wants to spend monthly to rig up their own backup solution rather than just using Amazon Drive, Google Drive, or Dropbox or something similar, this at least makes the stuff easy to find, redundant, and simple enough without polluting the public forums.
If one really needs two or three year data retention offsite with multiple copies and wants to only pay for the upload and download without paying for storage in between, just buy outright some 32 GB USB flash drives for $8 a pop and mail them to three friends. There, you've paid $30ish one month for hardware, postage, and taxes and will pay one friend $1 in postage to get the data back.
>For the $20 mentioned in the post, I could set up four boxes in four AWS zones.
And for the $2.50 also mententioned, you could set up zero. Or you could buy a bandwidth based plan, where $20 will get you at least 250GB of bandwidth.
It's actually quite possible to get an unmanaged VPS for under $2 a month if you shop around. I'm currently renting one for use as a personal email server for £0.002 per hour, which works out to around $1.85 a month for 1 core, 1GB ram, 20GB storage, and 2TB bandwidth.
https://lowendbox.com/ is a good resource for finding cheap VPS offerings to mess around with.
* 512 MB Memory
* 1 Core Processor
* 20 GB SSD Disk
* first 1 TB of outbound Transfer
That's a whole VPS I can put a git repo on and upload encrypted files to using ssh. So I get gigabytes of storage, secure transfer, a commit log, and can do some light other work on it. Or I could just rsync or scp them there.
GitLab is even one of their preinstall-able images, or you can pick some other application/stack (MEAN, LAMP, Nginx, Drupal, Node.js, Redmine) or a bare OS (Amazon Linux or Ubuntu) and initialize your own bare repo.
For the $20 mentioned in the post, I could set up four boxes in four AWS zones. I could configure my backup scripts to do a duplication rate of only two full copies and have roughly 40GB of stuff backed up fully duplicated in physically disparate data centers.
This isn't even getting into elastic storage offerings or paid cold storage which is dirt cheap by comparison. This is just simplified point-and-click deployment of predefined images, and it's already far more reliable for the money.
If one really wants to spend monthly to rig up their own backup solution rather than just using Amazon Drive, Google Drive, or Dropbox or something similar, this at least makes the stuff easy to find, redundant, and simple enough without polluting the public forums.
If one really needs two or three year data retention offsite with multiple copies and wants to only pay for the upload and download without paying for storage in between, just buy outright some 32 GB USB flash drives for $8 a pop and mail them to three friends. There, you've paid $30ish one month for hardware, postage, and taxes and will pay one friend $1 in postage to get the data back.