[HN Gopher] Hetzner Storage Share and Storage Box: Data storage ...
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       Hetzner Storage Share and Storage Box: Data storage and management
       made easy
        
       Author : TimWolla
       Score  : 34 points
       Date   : 2022-02-07 13:24 UTC (9 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.hetzner.com)
        
       | Ayesh wrote:
       | 3,45 Euros for a 1TB of storage is incredible value, even cheaper
       | than Blackblaze!
        
         | KronisLV wrote:
         | Agreed, their offerings also support quite a few ways to use
         | them out of the box!
         | 
         | Here's the relevant bits on the website:
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         | Storage box: https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box
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         | Storage share: https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share
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         | 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/ (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/ 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
         | 
         | 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 wrote:
           | Thanks for the infos. Are Storage-Boxes fully enabled
           | Nextcloud instances with the known web ui?
        
             | coffeeri wrote:
             | 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.
        
       | AsakiIssa wrote:
       | Their support is great and their services are damn good as well.
       | 
       | My work place have been on the previous storage box BX40 for 2TBs
       | of off-site storage for 4 years. This announced update to the
       | service, shows that BX21 service has just upgraded our offsite
       | backup to 5TBs and no difference to the monthly price we already
       | pay!
        
       | goplayoutside wrote:
       | This looks very compelling.
       | 
       | Have there been any updates from Cloudflare about when they
       | expect R2 to reach GA?
        
       | axiosgunnar wrote:
       | Why no S3-compatible interface?
        
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