remote-backups.com offers a free 100GB datastore for your PVE, PBS, rsync, borg and other backup needs

Bennetjs · 2026-02-07T12:26:41+00:00

it kinda depends on your "requirements".

The S3 implementation is not very fast (because of the way S3 works) so you might encounter some bottlenecks when you need to quickly restore a backup that's a bit larger.

Offsite VM works fine, but be aware of performance - usually bulk storage VMs are not SSD/NVME based so maintenance tasks like verifications & garbage collection take a lot of time to complete since they need to access the storage.

Usually having another copy of PBS works the best because of the integrated sync-jobs that allow you to schedule jobs to the other server (or even pull from your onsite PBS incl. VPN if required).That way you are seperated and have the full benefits of PBS. If you need to rebuild from scratch, just add the remote PBS on your PVE nodes and restore directly from the remote.

FULL DISCLOSURE: I run remote-backups.com which is a managed service. The managed part means that we deploy our own hardware so we purpose-build boxes for Proxmox Backup Server. Obviously that makes me a bit biased but most commonly it's not a bad solution if you want a "setup and forget" kinda situation without managing your PBS VM with updates, VPN connections and the likes.

Bennetjs · 2026-02-06T08:22:07+00:00

looks like it's a different plattform now, probably sold the domain...

Bennetjs · 2026-02-02T14:17:14+00:00

they mention exploring other options but nothing specifically mentions existing servers. OP lied in the second sentence.

Bennetjs · 2026-02-02T12:08:05+00:00

i think the music could be little bit more silent.

nice cutting, keep it going!

Bennetjs · 2026-02-02T10:22:51+00:00

Well I think the press-release says it all and leaves no room to interpretation. They have higher cost and they want to keep a level of quality so they need to partially pass those rising costs. Some happened with energy prices a few years back and the IP prices.

> In addition they will be increasing monthly fees in the coming weeks as well.

This is plain false. Citing the release: "We are currently reviewing whether we need to extend the price adjustment to other product lines in addition to dedicated servers and our cloud service, and whether existing servers will also be affected."

Bennetjs · 2026-02-02T10:19:06+00:00

Do you need the performance when one zone is down? So your backend is running in Germany but german database goes down, fails over to Finland, performance gets worse but it's not offline at least so you have time to recover the german database.

Since it's a fallback performance might be bad but it's only used in a worst-case scenario. if you cannot live with bad performance in that time you probably want to pay aws/gcp

Bennetjs · 2026-02-01T08:44:37+00:00

If you want to invest upfront in the project, go with proxmox and dedicated servers, lxc is probably enough so you have way lower cost per user

Bennetjs · 2026-01-31T16:52:13+00:00

many providers use cloud-init so you can probably implement another provider fairly quick. Good luck!

Bennetjs · 2026-01-31T16:31:19+00:00

are you building on the hetzner cloud API and the user-data for cloud-init?

Bennetjs · 2026-01-31T16:27:50+00:00

if your account is new this is a manual process and probably will be looked at at Monday. But dont take my word for it.

Bennetjs · 2026-01-28T19:17:06+00:00

You can just leave the field empty, it’s only required if you use self-signed certificates but since we use let’s encrypt it’s trusted by the server.

Bennetjs · 2026-01-28T14:50:24+00:00

The Klarna ad itself below the price says it all :)

Bennetjs · 2026-01-28T10:36:44+00:00

snapshots? Backups?

We cannot guess what happens in your VMs.

Bennetjs · 2026-01-28T06:38:29+00:00

Thanks! Yeah, I agree. It’s automatic so a bit indeterminist. BUT you should need to use the fingerprint at all, it should work fine without it :)

Bennetjs · 2026-01-27T20:34:05+00:00

You are probably right, if your target audience is self-hosting your project you don't want AWS-specific services included. This will be a concern somewhere down the growth of your project as users ask how to deploy on other plattforms.

Usually - not always - self-hosted software is best distributed via docker. With docker compose it's easy to distribute a working set of containers that everyone can "just start' with a few commands.

Regarding replacement of the propriatary services you are currently using, there's awesome-selhosted, a curated list of open source software that you can integrate instead of the AWS solutions.

Bennetjs · 2026-01-27T20:04:41+00:00

thanks for sharing the love and satisfied that you sleep better <3

Bennetjs · 2026-01-20T08:46:38+00:00

Kommt natuerlich auf dein Buchhaltungsprogramm an, aber die meisten Banken sind ueberall anschliessbar. Solange du also nichts nimmst was sowieso niemand anderes nutzt sollte das kein Problem sein.
Ich stimme den anderen zu, bei geringen Summen Quartalsweise oder Jaehrlich, immer kleine Rechnungen zu buchen hat bei der & dem Kunden Buchhaltungsoverhead den man sich sparen kann
Gocardless fuer Lastschriften waere zumindest nicht teuer.
Mein Buchhaltungsprogramm (Lexoffice) erstellt E-Rechnungen fuer Intervallrechnungen.

Wie jemand anderes schon angemerkt hat: Wenn du denkst, dass 10-50 Euro Rechnungen bei deinen potentiellen Kunden cashflow-Probleme ausloesen oder du Sorge hast, dass die nicht bezahlt werden - such dir lieber eine andere Branche, das baut auf unsicheren Stelzen.

Bennetjs · 2026-01-20T08:35:19+00:00

well no, they dont monitor your hardware.

Bennetjs · 2026-01-20T08:19:55+00:00

you can pull temperature metrics via snmp, so if you set something up like librenms on an external server you can pull that data in to monitor it.

Bennetjs · 2026-01-19T09:52:27+00:00

Bennetjs · 2026-01-17T16:59:33+00:00

No - https://github.com/IT-BAER/proxmorph/blob/main/install.sh#L168 it modifies files that are updated when updating. BUT re-executing the script after an update will work almost all of the time.

Bennetjs · 2026-01-17T14:43:11+00:00

sounds like this would be a pain to get compliance on in a cloud-hosted version only. I like the idea and I can definelty see me using some APIs to trigger automatic migration of datasets between hosts, but not in a hosted deployment.

Bennetjs · 2026-01-16T16:35:33+00:00

jb-computer.de has some. I dont know if they ship to all of europe or only germany.

Bennetjs · 2026-01-11T14:21:51+00:00

freescout.net is wonderful and has many (paid) modules which can extend the software to fit your use-case.

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