Over the past couple years, I've been moving away from a few monolithic dedicated servers to smaller VPSes. One one of my old dedicated servers though, I've got one service remaining that I'm finding it hard to move: rsnapshot.

I run nightly rsnapshot backups for all my other servers to this one dedicated server. It has ~1TB storage, and is only using maybe 300-400GB right now. But, the server is only $80/month...

I really don't need much... a single CPU, 1GB of RAM (maybe even 500MB)... and don't necessarily need a SSD... but just lots of storage.

(I do have some self-hosted hardware at home and at the office doing the same thing, but the uplink speed is so slow that I can't rely on those backups for a quick restore of large amounts of data. I need something in a data center, with a fast uplink, so that I could restore GBs of data in short order if needed.)

It seems like I could get by with a $5 Digital Ocean VPS... if only I could hook it up to larger storage. Is this what OpenStack Swift / Amazon S3 is for? (Though, that seems like it's more complicated than it needs to be...) Or, pricing wise, am I better off just sticking with a dedicated server at $80/month that has ~1TB of storage?