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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.

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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

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