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Hetzner Cloud has US locations and has snapshots, but you really want to power down the VM while a snapshot is in progress. I'm not sure what you mean about copy on write but snapshots and mirrors aren't the same thing, and maybe what you really want is database replication. I believe (not sure) that Hetzner has a service for that, though by definition you're no longer self-hosted with that approach. I don't think you have much control over hardware assignment with their cloud servers, and maybe that's not great. It depends your requirements I guess.
Had considered Hetzner, not going down that route. If only Scaleway had services in the US. Well, their snapshots are marked as copy on write, so my assumption is that for every write, there is replication somewhere.
Check their website.
https://www.netcup.com/en/server/root-server/rs-1000-g11-iv-12m#rs-1000-g11-iv-12m-nue
I might be wrong here, but my understanding is that their snapshots are the kind we find in modern filesystems (ZFS/BTRFS/...) : that is a point-in-time kind of functionnality, where a file will be duplicated (and the original version then will only belong to the snapshot) only when it is written to. This is just the way snapshots are implemented here - and a rather common way of doing it efficiently - not a reliability feature.
Same here. Makes me consider just doing my own thing instead and rolling my own extra backup system. Something to consider.
That aside, I'm surprised at how there is a VPS limitation at both Netcup and OVH. Netcup is selling ARM as the closest alternative. OVH is selling Canada as the closest option. I found it weird.