I am looking to run a few root servers and my ideal was going to be Netcup’s RS units cause they have a good rep and EU & US choices aren’t bad. However, Netcup isn’t currently offering them in Manassas VA (US), which was a requirement for me to kick-start it.
My project is already into the final line, and this was a bit of a bombshell, so I have to figure out who else offers near equivalents for the same thing.
One thing that is key is backup and their Snapshots (Copy-On-Write) were a big deal for me as I am dealing with 3rd party data.
Who else can offer the same in both EU/US with the same storage options and so on?
Appreciated
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I checked with OVH and at the moment, they only have Canada for options. US is sold out. Feels weirdly wrong. Netcup don’t have a timeline for US updates.
It’s not clear to me what they mean by that. The definition of a snapshot is that it’s static, so you can roll back to it. If it’s automatically updated all the time, it’s a mirror. The same with backups in general. The most common use of a backup is restoring a file that you deleted by accident. If the deletion is immediately propagated to your mirror, you can’t use the mirror that way.
What exactly do you want? Maybe something like Ceph replication? Hetzner at one point offered that. I don’t know if they still do. Same with OVH.
What’s wrong with Hetzner? I’ve generally found it better than Scaleway.
Maybe go on lowendspirit.com and ask there.