Colo for selfhosted lab?
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0pointenergy · 2023-10-27 15:22

In the next year, I’m looking at setting up a personal Colo for
offsite backups and redundancy. Honestly, it’s probably more than I
want to spend. But most of my friends and family have data caps they
are already hitting, so I can’t put it there.

Anyone doing something similar? And do you have any advice I need to
consider while trying to set this up?

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dazchad · 2023-10-27 15:56

I pay for object storage on Backblaze. I could probably find cheaper
elsewhere (wasabi maybe), but it works and it's not that much of a
difference for me.

Depending on how much data you change per month, you can send a HD
with your most recent backup, and only backup the difference nightly.
Again, if you generate a lot of changes that might not be feasible.

You can also try renting a VPS such as Hetzner. Will probably be
cheaper than colocation for a moderately sized server.

Unless of course you need the computing power, then colocation might
be cheapest.

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0pointenergy · 2023-10-27 16:10

Yeah, looking for some computer power too. Not a lot, but enough to
run Plex and a few other services. I have built all my servers/NASs
from scratch and want to do the same for the Colo.

I have used backblaze before, and might use them again. But I’d rather
host it all myself, if I can.

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dazchad · 2023-10-27 16:41

Ah. I misunderstood then. I thought it was mostly backup, but it seems
you want to host all your stuff there. In this case colo makes sense.
Expensive though!

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Camo138 · 2023-10-27 23:18

I looked into a colo lab in Australia. Not cheap at all