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Depends on what exactly you want to do with it. Hetzner has very cheap Storage boxes (10TB for $20/month with unlimited traffic) but those are closer to FTP boxes with a 10 connection limit. They are also down semi-regularly for maintenance.

For rock-solid public hosting Cloudflare is probably a much better bet, but you're also paying 7 times the price. More than a dedicated server to host the files, but you get more on other metrics.

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> Hetzner has very cheap Storage boxes (10TB for $20/month with unlimited traffic)

* based on fair use

at 250 TB/mo:

> In order to continue hosting your servers with us, the traffic use will need to be drastically reduced. Please check your servers and confirm what is using so much traffic, making sure it is nothing abusive, and then find ways of reducing it.

Thanks. It’s important to be very much aware of this when being enticed by the promise of unlimited bandwidth.

Thanks for finding this.

Unlimited rarely is.

Looks like backblaze (other post below) has a free bandwidth and cheap storage solution

Backblaze B2 is only free with Bandwidth Alliance partners, otherwise $0.01/GB, individual transactions will also cost you, depending on how much you use.

Individual transaction pricing: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html#

Bandwidth Alliance introduced me to bunny.net, interesting find.

That's if you use their CDN. Cloudflare R2 doesn't charge for egress bandwidth. If you have 100TB/mo to serve, try it and see what happens. I haven't heard of anyone being kicked off of R2 for using too much egress bandwidth yet.

At scale, you'll pay a couple thousand dollars for Class B operations on R2, and another bunch for storing the 10 TB in the first place, but that's relatively cheap compared to other offerings where you'd pay for metered egress bandwidth.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/pricing/ https://r2-calculator.cloudflare.com/

CF is not particularly fond of non-Enterprise customers serving more than a few TB/mo. Source: $corp serves 150 TB/mo via CF and pays somewhere north of 50k+/yr for it

We’re doing 60/mo on their $20 plan so far and it’s not been a problem.

They have released this updated to their ToS recently: https://blog.cloudflare.com/updated-tos/

The whole point of R2 is to remove predatory practices of egregious charging for egress, and if somehow they went back on this promise that would be a very bad PR.

Wow! It's the first time I'm hearing of this Hetzner offering. It's ideal for my offsite backup needs. Thanks!

I think rsync.net is much cheaper. They frequently run offers, I think I pay $40/yr for 2 TB or something.

I don't know about any special offers, but looking at standard pricing on rsync.net it would cost me $15/month for 1TB, while on Hetzner the same would cost me €3.94/month.

Email us … HN readers’ discount, etc.

2TB is currently $324/yr if paid yearly at rsync.net.

I would love to use them as they hang out here, but their prices are way too expensive for my needs.

I use Wasabi at $4.99 per month for 1TB and backup using borg and rclone. I serve only a few files, so I don't know the egress limitations.

I back up to both rsync and Hetzner. Both have reasonable costs and rsync has given me good long term discounts too without even asking.

I wouldn't call Cloudflare rocksolid, assuming you mean their R2 offering. It goes down pretty regularly.

Been looking at hetzner for their arm cloud offering. But I can’t figure out if instances upgraded or do you need to terminate and rebuild.

support seems non existent cos no one answers emails or web chat…

You can rescale cloud servers at hetzner, but you will need to shutdown the server in the process

That’s ok. As long as I don’t need to set it up again.

Thank you!

Hetzner is also fairly slow network bandwidth wise unless you're in Europe.

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