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Very short term review of Dedirock storage VPS plan
Hello! This is my first "post" on lowendtalk. Nice to meet you!
I'm reviewing Dedirock as my first post even though I have bought a plan from another provider as my initial purchase, because I've used it more actively and feel better suited to "review" it. I'll probably review them when I find a clear use and have more experience.
TL;DR: unreal price-to-GB especially if you want to run a custom client for backups. vCPU may be slightly limiting. RAM shouldn't be too large of an issue on the larger plans.
My setup
- I'm connecting from South Korea, on a gigabit symmetrical connection.
- I'm running rest-server for Restic backups to the server, via a docker container.
- I'm also running Filebrowser via docker to use leftover storage as my own cloud storage.
- Connection is made via Tailscale so I can close ports whenever possible, however Fileserver by nature is proxied by Caddy to the public internet (which, also is running in Docker).
- Have been using them for about 4 days now, so very short term review - take this with a grain of salt. Or enough grains to fill a lake, you can't be too careful on the internet...
Price-to-storage
The options I've considered before settling are Backblaze's B2 service, and iDrive's E2 offering.
- Backblaze: for 2TB, would've been 12$/mo, 6TB (3x stored) included egress per month but might need to be careful with API fees, even though they won't get too expensive. Would be 144$/yr.
- iDrive E2: 49.50$/yr 1st year, 99$/yr afterwards for 2TBs. Same 3x free egress, no charges for API calls.
- Dedirock: 28.68$/yr for 2TB from their storage wars promotion on Lowendbox (Storage Promo Plus plan). No API charges (of course), 5TB traffic - look out as both ingress and egress are counted. Still should more than suffice for backups.
...You can probably figure it out. They're cheap.
Connectivity
Considering my geographical distance from the server, I wouldn't complain. I'm getting about 12MB/s (~100mbps) uploads via Filebrowser web, and similar performance for restic backups made over Tailscale to the rest-server. However, looking at the server with htop while Restic is running, it seems mostly constrained by Tailscale's encryption / decryption overhead. Bypassing tailscale (exposing rest-server and connecting via IP over HTTP (not HTTPS)) yields a 1.5x~2x speedup, confirming my suspicions.
Downloading files via Filebrowser shows similar results. To be honest, no problems here, even streaming a video. If I ever needed to do a full disaster recovery and download everything, now then it might be a slight issue, but at that point most other methods over the internet will seem slow. Hoping it never happens...
In short,
- 1vCPU might struggle with encryption, especially high-speed over Tailscale
- Otherwise connectivity is excellent even from Asia
Other things of note
Server provisioning takes... Just long enough to be scared. After recieving the email with VPS login details, it took a few minutes until the server was reachable. It might've been delayed by me panicking and mashing start server on the dashboard.
Their control panel is good, if mildly confusing. The sidebar's "Enduser panel" button leads to a page saying access is disabled by administrator. Just use the features on the main VPS page - you probably won't miss too many features.
They have "live support", but I've yet to test it out because... Well, I haven't needed it!
The OS seems to be installed on the HDD array itself. I haven't had too much issues with IO performance while doing routine apt update/upgrades, nor while pulling docker containers. You probably don't want to let it swap though.
Verdict
Despite minor quirks, I don't think you can find storage prices this cheap... anywhere, really. If you have the technical know-how (and if you're here, I would say you likely do), it's a good way to get storage cheap without going for extremely large amounts. If you plan to exceed 2TBs... you might be better fit for somewhere else!
PS. I've tried to insert images but it wants links... If anyone wants to see the panel or want other screenshots, do ask in the comments, I'll try and upload it somewhere and embed it.
PPS. I might write a longer term review too! But if this continues, it'll mostly be "things are going well, same as before" kind of a post, so...
