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3,45 Euros for a 1TB of storage is incredible value, even cheaper than Blackblaze!

by Ayesh 5y ago

KronisLV 5y ago
Agreed, their offerings also support quite a few ways to use them out of the box! Here's the relevant bits on the website: Storage box: https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box Storage share: https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share They're even cheaper than the local VPS provider that i currently use for most of my hosting, which also had a storage offering: https://www.time4vps.com/storage-vps/ https://www.time4vps.com/storage-vps/ (no affiliate link because they're losing out at this point) Not only that, but Hetzner's VPSes (adjacent to their storage offerings) are billed based on the time used (no monthly commitments; just like Scaleway and many other modern hosts allow you the flexibility to spin something up for an hour if need be) and also have somehow managed to keep their prices low enough to beat almost all of the platforms that i know of out there for similar specs: DigitalOcean, Vultr, Scaleway, not even talking about the giants like Azure, AWS or GCP. So, anyone know of other products that can compete with what they're offering? One of the other cheap ones that i can think of is Contabo: https://contabo.com/en/storage-vps/ https://contabo.com/en/storage-vps/ But Hetzner still seems better in comparison, apart from Contabo's VPS deals which blow everything else out of the water specs wise. Note: Contabo's UI is antiquated, there are setup fees and some have complained about the real world performance being underwhelming, possibly due to overselling. For longer term storage, AWS Glacier also didn't seem half bad, though that's not an apples to apples comparison due to a different use case: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/?nc=sn&loc=4 https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/?nc=sn&loc=4 Either way, it's nice that there are options like that out there, allowing people to have off site backups on the cheap, or even just host their own VPSes and whatnot for affordable prices.
- casual-dev 5y ago
  Thanks for the infos. Are Storage-Boxes fully enabled Nextcloud instances with the known web ui?
  - coffeeri 5y ago
    The storage shares are nextcloud instances. The storage boxes on the other hand can only be accessed via SCP, FTP, SFTP, rsync, borg, WebDAV and smb.
    - Hetzner_OL 5y ago
      We wrote a quick comparison/contrast of the two products here: https://docs.hetzner.com/robot/storage-box/faq/storage-box-vs-storage-share https://docs.hetzner.com/robot/storage-box/faq/storage-box-v... --Katie

3,45 Euros for a 1TB of storage is incredible value, even cheaper than Blackblaze!

by Ayesh 5y ago

3,45 Euros for a 1TB of storage is incredible value, even cheaper than Blackblaze!

Agreed, their offerings also support quite a few ways to use them out of the box! Here's the relevant bits on the website: Storage box: https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box Storage share: https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share They're even cheaper than the local VPS provider that i currently use for most of my hosting, which also had a storage offering: https://www.time4vps.com/storage-vps/ https://www.time4vps.com/storage-vps/ (no affiliate link because they're losing out at this point) Not only that, but Hetzner's VPSes (adjacent to their storage offerings) are billed based on the time used (no monthly commitments; just like Scaleway and many other modern hosts allow you the flexibility to spin something up for an hour if need be) and also have somehow managed to keep their prices low enough to beat almost all of the platforms that i know of out there for similar specs: DigitalOcean, Vultr, Scaleway, not even talking about the giants like Azure, AWS or GCP. So, anyone know of other products that can compete with what they're offering? One of the other cheap ones that i can think of is Contabo: https://contabo.com/en/storage-vps/ https://contabo.com/en/storage-vps/ But Hetzner still seems better in comparison, apart from Contabo's VPS deals which blow everything else out of the water specs wise. Note: Contabo's UI is antiquated, there are setup fees and some have complained about the real world performance being underwhelming, possibly due to overselling. For longer term storage, AWS Glacier also didn't seem half bad, though that's not an apples to apples comparison due to a different use case: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/?nc=sn&loc=4 https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/?nc=sn&loc=4 Either way, it's nice that there are options like that out there, allowing people to have off site backups on the cheap, or even just host their own VPSes and whatnot for affordable prices.

casual-dev 5y ago
Thanks for the infos. Are Storage-Boxes fully enabled Nextcloud instances with the known web ui?
- coffeeri 5y ago
  The storage shares are nextcloud instances. The storage boxes on the other hand can only be accessed via SCP, FTP, SFTP, rsync, borg, WebDAV and smb.
  - Hetzner_OL 5y ago
    We wrote a quick comparison/contrast of the two products here: https://docs.hetzner.com/robot/storage-box/faq/storage-box-vs-storage-share https://docs.hetzner.com/robot/storage-box/faq/storage-box-v... --Katie