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I don't understand the pricing. There's a base fee of 0.0081 €/h, which I guess then is translated into 5.00 €/month? Or is that 0.0081 €/h + 5.00 €/month? And that gives me a 1 TB-hour of free usage, and if I use the object storage for the whole month, it's 720 TB-hours of free usage, except if the month has more or less than 30 days (so it's actually between 672 TB-hour and 744 TB-hour of free quota of storage)? And those TB-hours expire at the end of the month, so you might as well store files if you're under a 1 TB?

Amazon S3 pricing looking more and more sane.

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Agree that the pricing model is highly unclear (which is usual for cloud services).

It does not tell me if I should count hours in hour-of-the-day, or lapsed time. Also the example tries to demonstrate a case of "you don´t have to pay extra", but then falls silent. Nice, not the info I am looking for.

What about envisioning a customer who asks «what am I going to pay? Specify it right now, right here».

It's not explained very clearly and made more complicated by being charged hourly instead of monthly, but essentially there's a minimum charge of €5 per month, which includes 1TB of storage and about 1TB of bandwidth.

That's not how I read it or what their example says. As I understand it, if you create a bucket and then delete it again within the hour, you only pay for one hour. I think the 5€/month is if you have active buckets the whole month, since it's less than if you actually had to pay for all the hours.

30 * 24 * 0.0081 = 5.83

28 * 24 * 0.0081 = 5.44

That's correct, that's why the hourly billing makes it more complicated. If you don't use cloud storage the entire month you only pay for the time you do use it, and you only get included quota proportional to the amount you pay for. The sum of hourly costs is capped at €5 per month, which is also how it works for their VPSes.

Def needs a calculator if they intend to stay with this model at all IMO.

Yeah we are big fans of Hetzner and this pricing model makes no sense. I'm still trying to wrap my head around it and the strange limits associated with it.

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