I have 1 Tb of pictures.
For example DigitalOcean: 1 Tb volume storage (without the instance) is $100/mo.
S3: $13/mo (most would be infrequent access) + traffic would prob be free (100Gb/mo, I don't think I would read more than that).
I am not interested in single servers that can crash on a low-cost provider that can catch fire, get my account deleted because of a software bug, get stolen at home, etc.
- 1TB: 3.81 EUR (100USD cheaper than the DigitalOcean example you made)
- 5TB: 12.97 EUR
- 10TB: 24.75 EUR
- 20TB: 48.31 EUR
https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box
I've been paying for two 5TBs boxes (+ rsync.net) for my backups for a very long time and had one issue one time when the connection to one of the boxes was degraded, but otherwise it's been painless.
With S3 I don't really care about what happens, do a snapshot myself, spend time restoring from snapshots etc. It's there. Worth the upgrade to me.
Also, not from Europe, ping not good.
Edit: also read horror stories about Hetzner, in my former jobs had problems with OVH. No service, unreliable.
Is it? One of those boxes have been running continuously for 5+ years, according to my monitoring that checks the status every 30 seconds. You can snapshot at your own leisure and it's setup with RAID to resist drive failures.
Or do you actually have something that points to it having troubles with reliability?
Having problems with OVH I don't know what has to do with Hetzner, they are separate companies...
Of course at that point you might as well just use Google photos