Looking at Linode and can I use for personal storage etc
I'm tempted by Linode and have been looking at the offerings and the ts&cs. I notice that there's no particular mention of whether it's allowed to use a Linode server for personal storage, though there is a catch-all "don't use it for anything that might hurt anything or that is illegal" (perfectly fair). Basically I would want to use it for:
Personal email / webmail
A couple of small community forums (very small, like about 10 active users each and maybe a few posts a day)
Owncloud based personal cloud storage
Some light Web+FTP storage/usage (nothing illegal or intended for mass distribution)
Rehosting images so I can hotlink them when chatting on forums without upsetting anyone (I'd rather not use free image hosts - most 'free' services simply paid for in personal data and browsing habits and I've learned to value privacy as of late)
Though it's a few applications, it's all light usage stuff that is unlikely to be going on in parallel to any great degree, so I'm not worried that it can handle it. (It's overkill. But I'm a nerd, I like a Linux server with full control). It's more: are these things allowed?
Reason I ask is that most other hosts with such reasonable pricing disallow using their servers for - well, pretty much anything, but especially storage for personal cloud drives, backups etc. My current host (Dreamhost) for example require a purchase of their S3 based product in addition to the hosting if you want to use it for anything like that. They are reputed to turn a blind eye if you don't hammer it, but are also rather slow in my experience. I just tried to download some of my own data (on a VPS!) and am getting the usual abysmal 700KB/s transfer rates… on a line capable of 5.5MB/s…
Theirs is "unlimited" disk and bandwidth (yeah I know), yours is 48GB+2TB, which is still pretty good if it means the difference between "barely works" and "works well"
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I'll have a ponder on the space. I'm sure 48GB is plenty for now, but I remember some guy once saying the same about 640K. Not sure where to look for mass online storage - S3 based data hosting is rather expensive! Indeed all I really need for the owncloud stuff is a cheap SATA drive on the internet somewhere.
How do you mean by dedicated boxes… usually dedicated servers are super expensive? They have some nice shared hosting deals though. I could certainly consider that avenue for personal Owncloud storage if it's possible to encrypt, as I'd be hoping to do here. (Not for illegal reasons, just security/privacy)
Currently my Dropbox is 8GB. As you say, 48GB fills surprisingly fast, but as it's mostly just me using it (plus a couple of friends on a messageboard who are being asked to relocate some junk to their own servers or Google or something
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Welcome aboard!
-Chris
May be worth a warning on the sign up screen unless I simply missed it - it's no worry to me, but if I'd signed up on say the 2nd of the month for a high end server it would've hurt
@Cloudane:
Ah, fair enough. Thanks!
May be worth a warning on the sign up screen unless I simply missed it - it's no worry to me, but if I'd signed up on say the 2nd of the month for a high end server it would've hurt
:lol:
Worth noting that we only charge for the next month up front if you sign up at the end of the month: signing up on the 2nd would have invoiced you for less than the monthly cost, since it would have only billed from then through the end of the current month.
- Les
I was able to drop my annual premium Dropbox account, and install the ownCloud server in my Linode space without any problems.
I was glad to drop that annual bill, and take back some of my privacy & security.
The client apps for my phone, tablet, and PC work as expected to grab files, too