What is a storage box? That price seems relatively good - how does it compare to other offerings?
They also have a "Storage Share" which is about the same, but you can serve static files to a group or with the public (ie, hosting videos, images, iso images).
In the US rsync.net provides the same type of (storage box) service. Hetzner's new pricing comes out much cheaper, but if sometimes it's the latency between your location and the storage location.
I haven't explored all options in detail. I use Hetzner because it's cheap and supports BorgBackup.
I used to keep backups on GDrive but all the anecdotes about accounts locked by bots and non-existent customer support made me uncertain about using it for long-term photo storage (10-20 years time frame).
S3/EFS network costs were too expensive for my 10s of GBs.
- have more secure passwords for Storage Boxes? Currently they're 16 characters long which is quite weak. Plus the usernames seem to be predictable/enumerable (e.g. u000000).
- or even disable password logins entirely for boxes where there is ssh-key authentication set up?
Thanks.
Basically you have a nice amount of space for a very reasonable space and can connect in a number of ways or just attach it as a network drive. Transfer speeds are reasonable.