Cloud storage recommendations

User59128

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for recommendations for a personal cloud storage / backup target. Ideally 1 TB to start, with the flexibility to upgrade to a bigger plan later without migrating.

I've already looked at the Hetzner Storage Box and it seems solid for the money (BX11 1 TB / BX21 5 TB, ZFS, snapshots, SMB/SFTP/WebDAV). Before I commit I'd like to hear what else people here are using.

A few things that matter to me:

• Prepaid or fixed-price billing, not metered/usage-based
• Mountable in Windows File Explorer natively (SMB or WebDAV), no extra client software
• Snapshots or versioning of some kind

If there are any good storage servers / storage VPS deals, let me know as well. I've already looked at Servarica's storage plans, but they're all out of stock.

Thanks!

averagedatahoarder

1. Try writing your post by hand, without a LLM.
2. Hetzner storage box is about as cheap as you can get PAYG. Maybe cheaper for 1TB but for 5TB+ nothing else really comes close unless you are willing to sacrifice unmetered bandwidth or commit at massive scale.

Though, even if you purcahsed a storage VPS, etc. you could still setup SMB/WebDAV quite easily

SodaWithoutSparkles

Maybe in this case, you can look for block storage at https://onidel.com/services/block-storage

Hetzner ones are quite good tho. Or alternatively maybe encrypted + google cloud plans?

buggedout

@SodaWithoutSparkles said:
Maybe in this case, you can look for block storage at https://onidel.com/services/block-storage

Hetzner ones are quite good tho. Or alternatively maybe encrypted + google cloud plans?

I dont remember exactly but I think I have read in reddit that google sometimes flags encrypted files as virus and moves them to trash....

User59128

@SodaWithoutSparkles said:
Maybe in this case, you can look for block storage at https://onidel.com/services/block-storage

Hetzner ones are quite good tho. Or alternatively maybe encrypted + google cloud plans?

@oloke Are there any plans to expand HDD storage to North America or Europe?