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Can also recommend Hetzner. You've got different options. Go for a regular (or even Cloud) server and get a Storage Box on top. 5TB Storage Box would be €26/mo

by heipei 9y ago

Can also recommend Hetzner. You've got different options. Go for a regular (or even Cloud) server and get a Storage Box on top. 5TB Storage Box would be €26/mo. You can also get a server with 2x3TB or 2x4TB for around €40-€50, either a new one or a used one from their bidding page. Good thing about Hetzner is that you don't pay extra for bandwidth, so the pricing is very easy and predictable. online.net has similar offers in a similar price-range.

teamhappy 9y ago
I recommend Hetzner too, but I want to point out that traffic is not free. When you exceed the included traffic (something like 20-50TB IIRC) your connection gets throttled unless you pay 1,2-1,4€/TB. That's a good thing though. Traffic does cost money and all those providers offering unlimited traffic will start emailing you once you generate significant amounts of traffic anyway. Edit: Just to put that into perspective (since most people here are talking about the price of the server). If you buy a affordable server for 30-40€/month and you saturate the 1gbit/s NIC 24/7 you end up paying over 450€/month. If you buy a more expensive server (75€/month, 50TB traffic included, 1,19€/TB extra traffic) you save at least 100€/month. I guess what I'm saying is worry about the price of the traffic not the price of the server. Edit2: My math is all wrong. Anyway if you need lots of traffic buy their regular servers instead of the auctioned ones, you will save money (more like 50+€/month, but still).
- xstartup 9y ago
  Which block storage solution do you use on those Herzners servers? Or are you directly using file system?
  - teamhappy 9y ago
    File system. The prices for Hetzner's cloud seem to be the same: 20TB traffic included and 1,19€/TB on top of that. (That's super cheap by the way.)
- fredsted 9y ago
  On Hetzner, it looks like the amount of free traffic is dependent on the server's monthly cost: https://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Traffic/en https://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Traffic/en

by heipei 9y ago

teamhappy 9y ago

I recommend Hetzner too, but I want to point out that traffic is not free. When you exceed the included traffic (something like 20-50TB IIRC) your connection gets throttled unless you pay 1,2-1,4€/TB. That's a good thing though. Traffic does cost money and all those providers offering unlimited traffic will start emailing you once you generate significant amounts of traffic anyway. Edit: Just to put that into perspective (since most people here are talking about the price of the server). If you buy a affordable server for 30-40€/month and you saturate the 1gbit/s NIC 24/7 you end up paying over 450€/month. If you buy a more expensive server (75€/month, 50TB traffic included, 1,19€/TB extra traffic) you save at least 100€/month. I guess what I'm saying is worry about the price of the traffic not the price of the server. Edit2: My math is all wrong. Anyway if you need lots of traffic buy their regular servers instead of the auctioned ones, you will save money (more like 50+€/month, but still).

xstartup 9y ago
Which block storage solution do you use on those Herzners servers? Or are you directly using file system?
- teamhappy 9y ago
  File system. The prices for Hetzner's cloud seem to be the same: 20TB traffic included and 1,19€/TB on top of that. (That's super cheap by the way.)
fredsted 9y ago
On Hetzner, it looks like the amount of free traffic is dependent on the server's monthly cost: https://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Traffic/en https://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Traffic/en