About Us

Ryan started zfs.rent in late 2020 —
because he couldn't find a reasonable block storage provider to sync ZFS snapshots.

Scott joined a few years later to handle the business/support side —
plus, racking equipment is a lot easier with two people...

Ryan + Scott FMT2 Cabinet

Currently, we're hosting over 200 drives!

We work together in a small "HQ", north of Sacramento.

Over the past two years, we've made steady improvements behind the scenes:

upgraded to a 208V circuit (this required a 3-day cabinet move...)
acquired IPv4 and IPv6 address space
acquired an ASN and started announcing routes
added a redundant transit link
joined three internet exchange points (SFMIX, FCIX, FREEMIX)

Early History

Initially, drives were hosted in three (self-built) 15-bay servers. Ryan had a 1/4 cabinet lease in Rancho Cordova, CA. This was in 2020.

scott + server lift workspace + crash carts

Eventually... the setup was upgraded to hot-swappable SAS JBODs colocated in Fremont, CA. For a while, we were leasing two cabinets, since our first suite only had 15A circuits — and we were averaging 80% of the rack breaker limit. It took an entire weekend to migrate the equipment to a suite that offered higher-current 208V circuits.