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I use a Hetzner CX11[1] VPS running nginx. Files are stored on Hetzner's 1TB Storage Box service. Storage Box has built-in WebDAV HTTP interface (among others). Costs about €6.50/month in all.

You might also want to see their Storage Share[3] service - similarly priced but more user-friendly with a NextCloud frontend and WebDAV HTTP interface.

From another discussion here, I found that Backblaze B2 and Cloudflare R2 are still cheaper. May want to check them out too.

[1]: https://www.hetzner.com/cloud

[2]: https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box

[3]: https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share

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After years at Linode and Digital Ocean, I'm surprised how cheap Hetzner is.

Less than €4/mo for 1TB of storage is an incredible price. It would be $100 per month at Linode, they don't even offer snapshots and last I tried the IOPS limit was abysmal. DO is probably the same thing.

Yeah! No idea why I still have a VPS at Digital Ocean compared to this. For a Basic / 4 GB / 2 vCPUs (aka shared cpu 4GB ram) instance I'm ending up at like $28.5 per month including VAT ($20 droplet + some backups). Looks like I could literally get 4x the RAM for the same cost on Hetzner!?

That's what I did last month, moved everything over to Hetzner, paying the same price for twice the machine.

Am doing my migration at the moment. I couldn't believe for 1/3 of the cost at DO, I was getting a similar VPS at Hetzner.

You’re probably referring to Linode’s block storage. These Hetzner services are like Linode’s object storage service.

Hetzner too has block storage volumes but they cost more than storage boxes. I think block storage typically costs more because it supports higher IOPS.

Not really. Linode's object storage presents an S3 interface. Hetzner is more low-level: it's got FTP, SMB, WebDAV and they say it can be used as a network volume.

EDIT: Hetzner's Cloud Volume, which is an actual mountable block device and backed by an SSD, is €48/mo for 1TB, still half as cheap as Linode.

The storage box isn't an object store - it's basically a CIFS share off a fileserver

The cheap VCPUs Hetzner offers aren't dedicated. So what's the performance like? Does anyone know how this compares to AWS Lightsail?

I've found that I needed a CPX11 to do serious work -- but the average simple Rails/Node app could probably run on less than that.

They do make it really easy to upgrade, so if you write a decent UserData script (or build your images with packer and deploy them with pulumi/terraform) you'll be able to easily go from zero to functional no matter the size, and you can scale up as needed.

Thank you for mentioning the Hetzner storage box. It's an amazing storage deal.

came here to write exactly the same comment:-) CX11 VPS with 1tb storage box mounted as webdav disk. works well, costs almost nothing.

Yup, same here, was going to comment about Hetzner's Storage Box. I'm using sshfs to mount it on the VPS, and it's pretty slow but acceptable for my purposes.

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