We here in the LowEnd community believe in backups.  In fact, we’re rather passionate about them.

So today we’re sharing an offer from ServerCrate, a backup service provider that has a nice deal for our readers.  As they put it:

Most backups fail silently. You find out the night your drive dies. We test that your data actually restores, every single day, and show you the proof. Encrypted on your machine in a vault we can’t read. US West Coast, flat pricing, no egress fees, real humans on tickets.

ServerCrate is a zero-knowledge backup host built on one belief: your backups should be provably recoverable, and no one — including us — should be able to read them. We run dedicated per-user Restic vaults over HTTPS, each isolated on its own ZFS dataset with checksumming and snapshots, so silent bit rot in an old archive gets caught instead of handed back to you corrupted. Encryption happens client-side; we never hold your keys or see your data. We also run a public restore-verification monitor at status.servercrate.net that continuously proves backups can actually be restored — not just that they ran, which is all most hosts check. We are a small, focused, US-based operation in Los Angeles. If you need cheap bulk storage or EU data residency, there are better fits and we’ll say so. If you want an integrity-first Restic target with a real person behind it, that’s us.

Their service includes:

• Zero-knowledge: client-side encryption, keys never leave the customer
• Public restore-verification monitor (proves restores work, not just that backups ran)
• Post-quantum TLS (X25519MLKEM768) on all public traffic -harvest-now-decrypt-later resistant
• Per-user ZFS isolation with bit-rot detection
• Zero egress/restore fees, flat pricing
• On-chain Bitcoin via self-hosted BTCPay, no third-party processor
• 10GB free tier, no card required

Learn more on their web site, or ping @Rakane_SC on LowEndTalk.  You should review their terms before signing up, and if you’re good to go, they accept credit/debit cards (via Stripe), PayPal, and Bitcoin (on-chain via self-hosted BTCPay).

Datacenter and Network Info

Los Angeles, CA, USA
Test IPv4: 76.81.150.67
Test file: https://servercrate.net/100MB.bin

Backup Service Offers

raindog308

raindog308 is a longtime community LETizen, technical writer, and self-described techno polymath. With deep roots in the *nix world, he has a passion for systems both modern and vintage, ranging from Unix, Perl, Python, and Golang to shell scripting and mainframe-era operating systems like MVS. He’s equally comfortable with relational database systems, having spent years working with Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL.

As an avid user of LowEndBox providers, raindog308 runs an empire of LEBs, from tiny boxes for VPNs, to mid-sized instances for application hosting, and heavyweight servers for data storage and complex databases. He brings both technical rigor and real-world experience to every piece he writes.

Beyond the command line, raindog308 has a life-long love of German Shepherd Dogs, high-quality knives, target shooting, theology, tabletop RPGs, playing guitar, and hiking in deep, quiet forests.

His goal with every article is to help users, from beginners to seasoned sysadmins, get more value, performance, and enjoyment out of their infrastructure.

You can find him daily in the forums at LowEndTalk under the handle @raindog308.