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Been using hetzner storage boxes for borg backup for >5 years. Works without issue for multiple TB of backups. Every maintenance downtime so far has been announced in advance.

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The main reason I’ve avoided Hetzner storage box is because they don’t accept loading money into the account as a prepaid credit for a longer period. It’s always a month-by-month payment. Ok, so they do allow it, but only through a bank transfer, which is either not easy or possible for those outside the EU. If they allowed this through credit/debit cards or PayPal or some other mechanism, I’d surely try it. Hetzner in general seems to be very conservative in handling (and avoiding) risks.

I’d like to prepay for a year or longer for critical services so that in case something goes wrong (card expired, didn’t notice reminder emails, temporarily off the grid, temporarily incapacitated), things just don’t go poof.

I’ve got an auto credit card setup on one of my hetzner accounts.

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