HostHatch VPS Benchmark

June 19, 2022 - 2 mins read

HostHatch is a US-based virtual servers provider established in 2011. It has been famous for its great bang for the buck because it’s very, very cheap in Black Friday and even normal prices are pretty nice compared to other providers. There are two tiers. One is Compute VM(with NVME SSD), and the other is Storage KVM. (I don’t really know what disk are they using. Seems like HDD but with SSD cached?

What do I use for storage?

June 18, 2022 - 4 mins read

I am kind of a cloud storage guy because I always think that local storage is unreliable. I have accidentally dropped my one and only WD My Passport Ultra removable hard drive which stores a lot of precious data, I can’t read anything from it after it’s dropped. Ouch.. And after watching the video on Austin Evans, I decided always to keep the 3-2-1 principle. 3-2-1 means 3 copies of data, stored in 2 different kinds of medium(like one for your mechanical drive and the other on LTO tapes.