Hey everyone.
I'm new here, and looking for a point in the right direction. Lately, I've been looking to "improve" some of what we do in our IT set up. Presently, a key area of this is file "sharing" and storage - for our customers to access their data. So it's very limited sharing etc, and lots of storage - we currently use an online solution from Opendrive, which I'm finding very limited from here in the UK.
So, with some investigation of this site, I cam up with the idea that what I was probably looking for is a budget Dedi, or Shared, on which I can install OwnCloud to give me similar functionality to the current set up. My issue really is concerned with storage space I think - I'd be looking for 2Tb which might be upgraded in future. To put this in some perspective, the BuyVM offer I saw in another thread rung my bell pretty well, but as many other threads point out, getting hold if it not so easy.
Cost wise, I figure I should be able to run something like the above with around 2 or 3TB HDD for the magical $50-$60 a month - I really don't mind so much on location so long as reliable (will look to mirrored "backup" in near future, for now that's on a local NAS here), bandwidth is not a major concern, and 5Tb seems to be a magic number around - though 2 would be adequate I think (no genuine idea though). I also don't know so much about processor cores and RAM, but I'm guessing I'm not going to be getting Xeon processors, and masses of RAM at that price point.
Help, and offers would be very appreciated - already learning a load from lurking here.
Thanks in advance guys.
Bill.