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.
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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
their snapshots are marked as copy on write, so my assumption is that for every write, there is replication somewhere.
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.
It's not clear to me what they mean by that. The definition of a snapshot is that it's static, so you can roll back to it. If it's automatically updated all the time, it's a mirror. The same with backups in general. The most common use of a backup is restoring a file that you deleted by accident. If the deletion is immediately propagated to your mirror, you can't use the mirror that way.
What exactly do you want? Maybe something like Ceph replication? Hetzner at one point offered that. I don't know if they still do. Same with OVH.
What's wrong with Hetzner? I've generally found it better than Scaleway.
Maybe go on lowendspirit.com and ask there.
An analytics tool?
Sorry, wrong thread