Hetzner Storage Boxes

(hetzner.com)

18 points | by kblissett 11 hours ago ago

6 comments

  • ycombinatrix 11 hours ago ago

    $4 per TB per month may be the best storage deal i've seen. and they don't seem to have retrieval fees. what's the catch?

    • netruk44 9 hours ago ago

      They don’t have great North American peering. If you happen to be there and are unlucky, you won’t be able to get a very reliable/fast connection to the server.

      I tried to use one for Borg backups a few years ago and just ran into endless transient connection issues.

    • throwaway81523 9 hours ago ago

      It's more like $2 a TB in the larger plans. I have 5TB there and it's been working great. I use Borg Backup so the data is all encrypted. If anyone cares, Digital Ocean also makes new customers send their ID.

    • debian3 7 hours ago ago

      For stuff like archive and backup you can use ovh object storage infrequent access. Comes to 5$ per GB but you pay for what you use only and it scale infinitely.

    • georgeck 10 hours ago ago

      This was discussed previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36089176

      • ycombinatrix 10 hours ago ago

        Ah thanks. Seems like the downsides are invasive KYC policy + no replication. I'll stick with Backblaze for now.