Uses for VPS
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I've only ever saw people using a VPS like Vultr, Linode, and Digital Ocean for FreePBX. First saw people on here using it for that, because of the very low cost. Wondering what people might be using a VPS for, beyond a PBX...
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Snipe-it
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Ubnt UNMS, Pihole DNS, WordPress, Dokuwiki, Nextcloud... and probably many more systems/apps.
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Unifi Controller, Nextcloud
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@bnrstnr said in Uses for VPS:
Ubnt UNMS, Pihole DNS, WordPress, Dokuwiki, Nextcloud... and probably many more systems/apps.
How much space are you using with NextCloud? What kinds of content are you storing out there? Can't imagine you're streaming from it... For things like photos and documents, it didn't seem like the packages for mass storage were incredibly affordable over long periods of time. Block storage, 500GB going for $50/month. If I were to buy a ReadyNAS or Synology NAS at around $600 with disks, I'd break even at a year...
Edit: Tagging @brandon220 as well.
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@bbigford said in Uses for VPS:
@bnrstnr said in Uses for VPS:
Ubnt UNMS, Pihole DNS, WordPress, Dokuwiki, Nextcloud... and probably many more systems/apps.
How much space are you using with NextCloud? Didn't seem like the packages for mass storage were incredibly affordable over long periods of time. Block storage, 500GB going for $50/month. If I were to buy a ReadyNAS or Synology NAS at around $600 with disks, I'd break even at a year...
Edit: Tagging @brandon220 as well.
The offset is the reliability over the life of the files, not just the hardware.
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@dustinb3403 said in Uses for VPS:
@bbigford said in Uses for VPS:
@bnrstnr said in Uses for VPS:
Ubnt UNMS, Pihole DNS, WordPress, Dokuwiki, Nextcloud... and probably many more systems/apps.
How much space are you using with NextCloud? Didn't seem like the packages for mass storage were incredibly affordable over long periods of time. Block storage, 500GB going for $50/month. If I were to buy a ReadyNAS or Synology NAS at around $600 with disks, I'd break even at a year...
Edit: Tagging @brandon220 as well.
The offset is the reliability over the life of the files, not just the hardware.
As in, not having to worry about replacing the hardware in the event of a failure, and copying backups over to new hardware? I thought even with a VPS, you should still use some kind of backup... Unless I'm misunderstanding what you meant initially.
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@bbigford said in Uses for VPS:
@dustinb3403 said in Uses for VPS:
@bbigford said in Uses for VPS:
@bnrstnr said in Uses for VPS:
Ubnt UNMS, Pihole DNS, WordPress, Dokuwiki, Nextcloud... and probably many more systems/apps.
How much space are you using with NextCloud? Didn't seem like the packages for mass storage were incredibly affordable over long periods of time. Block storage, 500GB going for $50/month. If I were to buy a ReadyNAS or Synology NAS at around $600 with disks, I'd break even at a year...
Edit: Tagging @brandon220 as well.
The offset is the reliability over the life of the files, not just the hardware.
As in, not having to worry about replacing the hardware in the event of a failure, and copying backups over to new hardware? I thought even with a VPS, you should still use some kind of backup... Unless I'm misunderstanding what you meant initially.
You would have a backup, but the vps provider can do that for you. Completely hands off.
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@dustinb3403 said in Uses for VPS:
@bbigford said in Uses for VPS:
@dustinb3403 said in Uses for VPS:
@bbigford said in Uses for VPS:
@bnrstnr said in Uses for VPS:
Ubnt UNMS, Pihole DNS, WordPress, Dokuwiki, Nextcloud... and probably many more systems/apps.
How much space are you using with NextCloud? Didn't seem like the packages for mass storage were incredibly affordable over long periods of time. Block storage, 500GB going for $50/month. If I were to buy a ReadyNAS or Synology NAS at around $600 with disks, I'd break even at a year...
Edit: Tagging @brandon220 as well.
The offset is the reliability over the life of the files, not just the hardware.
As in, not having to worry about replacing the hardware in the event of a failure, and copying backups over to new hardware? I thought even with a VPS, you should still use some kind of backup... Unless I'm misunderstanding what you meant initially.
You would have a backup, but the vps provider can do that for you. Completely hands off.
Just noticed that specifically Vultr offers a backup, but only on compute instances (not block storage). https://www.vultr.com/docs/vps-automatic-backups
But I suppose that could vary from provider to provider.
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@bbigford said in Uses for VPS:
@dustinb3403 said in Uses for VPS:
@bbigford said in Uses for VPS:
@bnrstnr said in Uses for VPS:
Ubnt UNMS, Pihole DNS, WordPress, Dokuwiki, Nextcloud... and probably many more systems/apps.
How much space are you using with NextCloud? Didn't seem like the packages for mass storage were incredibly affordable over long periods of time. Block storage, 500GB going for $50/month. If I were to buy a ReadyNAS or Synology NAS at around $600 with disks, I'd break even at a year...
Edit: Tagging @brandon220 as well.
The offset is the reliability over the life of the files, not just the hardware.
As in, not having to worry about replacing the hardware in the event of a failure, and copying backups over to new hardware? I thought even with a VPS, you should still use some kind of backup... Unless I'm misunderstanding what you meant initially.
Right and for $50 a month you could get 2TB of space for 4 people on Dropbox for teams. The individual account would get you 1TB for $20 a month. I had thought of having a NextCloud instance but it's usually just cheaper to use an SaaS instead.
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A SaltStack Master server.
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Web hosting
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@bbigford said in Uses for VPS:
@tim_g said in Uses for VPS:
A SaltStack Master server.
I have yet to learn SaltStack. Way behind.
I want to as well I just have no idea where to begin with it.
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@dustinb3403 said in Uses for VPS:
@bbigford said in Uses for VPS:
@tim_g said in Uses for VPS:
A SaltStack Master server.
I have yet to learn SaltStack. Way behind.
I want to as well I just have no idea where to begin with it.
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@dustinb3403 said in Uses for VPS:
@bbigford said in Uses for VPS:
@tim_g said in Uses for VPS:
A SaltStack Master server.
I have yet to learn SaltStack. Way behind.
I want to as well I just have no idea where to begin with it.
I've got a guide on my blog to get it set up with gitlab.
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@dustinb3403 said in Uses for VPS:
@bbigford said in Uses for VPS:
@tim_g said in Uses for VPS:
A SaltStack Master server.
I have yet to learn SaltStack. Way behind.
I want to as well I just have no idea where to begin with it.
You can do something simple like installing or updating Windows clients that has chocolatey and apps that are installed via choco.
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We use it for literally everything. Some of our workloads include our web servers, and DNS filtering (Pi-Hole), our system monitoring (Zabbix), log collection, email (Zimbra), file serving and storage (NextCloud), our jump boxes, application development, application hosting, IM and chat systems like Rocket.chat, our documentation systems, system management servers like Salt for us, telephony, etc. If we have a workload, that's where it is (Vultr, for us.)
And, of course, MangoLassi is on a Linode VPS server.
SodiumSuite is as well.
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@bbigford said in Uses for VPS:
How much space are you using with NextCloud? What kinds of content are you storing out there? Can't imagine you're streaming from it...
We have a 500GB storage instance on Vultr for $20 a month. We primarily use it for sharing CAD drawings with customers.
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We use it for UNMS, Unifi Controller, Zimbra and NextCloud.
