Cloud Backup POC
Welcome to Velocity Host's KISS: Open Source Cloud Backup.
Using well known Open Source (what is Open Source?) technologies, Velocity Host delivers a simple, elegant and cost effective suite of cloud storage solutions that promises:
- Simplicity – easy to use, we’ll even manage it for you.
- Privacy – we don’t scan your data to train AI or to sell you targeted advertising
- Security – Data is secured & encrypted
- Data Sovereignty – All data is stored here in Australia and is governed by local laws.
- Data Integrity – Data is checked each month for corruption.
- Easy To Understand Pricing – an all included cost per GB of storage with an optional client license per month or BYO license.
Q&A
- We want to offer at no cost an hour of our time to work with you to collaborate and improve the service.
- 1 month free data storage as a gratis for being part of the POC.
- Volume discounts will also be applied
- As part of this process we want to invest some of our time with a dedicated engineer to assist with setting up KISS to work as you need it, listen and discuss your needs.
- Design a custom backup/ sync profile to meet those objectives
- Remote Session with one of our engineers to configure the service
- Follow up in a weeks time to evaluate and gather feedback.
SAVE - $165 ex GST - support time
SAVE - $90 ex GST - 1,000 GB of data for your 1st month of storage or more if you need more storage space.
Desktop & Server.
- No limitations - freedom of choice!
- BYO client applications if you wish, or
- lease our recommended backup client directly from (vh)
- Alternatively, we will support most of these amazing Open Source tools and more to come
- Rsync, SyncThing, ZFS, Rclone & more
NOTE: we will do our best to troubleshoot any issues, to the best of our knowledge - please understand we don't know every backup tool in existence ! If it’s SFTP compliant it should work.
Do you have a large initial backup and limited upload bandwidth?
No worries! we have an initial Data Seed loading option, whereby we send a drive or mini PC to your site to copy data and ship it back to us.
This is based on how much storage needs to be seed loaded
- 2-8TB - Small form factor Mini PC
- 8+ TB - Mini NAS system
We then upload the data directly to your KISS storage zone.
Talk to us about pricing and data requirements.
The service is is backed by the ZFS enterprise file system we strongly believe ZFS – Zettabyte File System is the best file system available today - tune into our blog for more info.
- Check out the ZFS primer from TrueNas https://www.truenas.com/zfs/
- Improved integrity through data scrubbing
- Snapshots allow us to perform data roll-backs in the event of source data loss / disaster
- we take nightly snapshots for 7 days as a retention period for data recovery
- custom snapshot schedule available on request
- deleted file recovery
- previous version recovery
- complete data corruption / loss recovery
- All Australian based data storage and IP traffic
- Victorian located Tier 4 Data Centre . What' s tier 4 Data Centre?
A Tier 4 data centre is the highest level of certification in the Up-time Institute's classification system, featuring full redundancy for all components, 96-hour outage protection, and continuous cooling to ensure optimal performance. This tier is designed for mission-critical infrastructure, providing maximum reliability and minimal downtime.
- All Australian based service and support
- you can reach out and talk to local support based in AUS
- Privacy & Security focused
- we don't use 3rd party hosted management panels or proxies to move data
- all data is direct from your source > to our target server (and no speed throttling!)
Yes many already do exist, but not all focus on privacy & security in fact very few Cloud Storage Services offer what we believe as crucial parts of the service offering. Many competitors like google drive make you and your data the product by scanning your data with AI for training or to sell your data to marketers.
Many commercial products are in fact Open Source based as having many eyes across code enables companies to benefit from the power of the Open Source community when the code is made available for others to use.
Open Source is the No# 1 way of getting your code checked and refined using the power of many. You'll find many commercial offerings from VMware, AWS and many others are all based on pre-existing Open Source projects.
Unfortunately not every Open Source project receives compensation for their contributions and are taken advantage of by corporate entities, this is a conversation for another time.
Interested in understanding a little more about Open Source?
Check out our article - Why OpenSource Is Good For business
Is it? - Some important questions to ask yourself.
- How easy is it to get support from Microsoft, AWS or Google?
- If you are satisfied with the level of support don't change.
- If the Big 3 are this busy day-to-day and can't assist with daily support, ask yourself what it will be like when you have an emergency.
- How quickly can you retrieve your data in the event of disaster?
- Microsoft, AWS & Google bandwidth throttle all data in/out of their services due to over subscribing/overselling available resources. If they allowed all of their clients to download/upload their data at the same time without throttling the network would come to a stand still.
- Throttling can be a good way to manage traffic when you have so many clients but it doesn't help clients when you need to upload or retrieve your data in an emergency.
- We solve this issue by allowing the full bandwidth of your connection to upload/ download data, furthermore for those who don't have enough bandwidth to accomplish this we offer a seed loading service whereby we send out hardware to your site to get data in/out faster and freight it back to KISS. - more about this later.
- Secure standard access protocol
- SSH or SFTP
- more to come in future (let us know if you use & need another protocol)
- Two main Options for an isolated dedicated environment
- not shared with others - your dedicated and private zone
- or shared platform - but still isolated to your business
- If Dedicated
- you will have your own IP address !
- and you can connect to it as your own domain i.e 'backup.YourCompany.com'
- Use any compatible backup or file sync client you like
- see table for backup clients that we know work (or we are sure that they will work)
- purchase your choice of backup client directly OR through us (see the list the vendors we partner with)
- Use advanced tooling like rsync to synchronise data
- use ZFS send/ receive natively
1Tb $90 +gst
9c/ GB
5Tb $350 +gst
7c/ GB
10Tb $500 +gst
5c/ GB
Custom
Have more data to store?
Speak with us about a custom tier.