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Hetzner Launches Object Storage ($6.50/TB)
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Its Beta now, Summit visitors can register for it.
When creating a bucket, it says “We charge a base price of €0.0096/hour for every hour of Object Storage runtime, up to a maximum of €5.95/month. You receive 1 TB of storage and 1.5 GB of traffic included per hour of Object Storage runtime. If the included quotas are exceeded, additional storage is charged at €0.0096 per TB hour and additional traffic at €1.19 per TB.”.
This is with 19% vat in Germany.
Honestly kind of disappointing pricing, hope it improves over time.
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Finally!
But why is storage just a tad bit over Backblaze?
I was expecting a Subject Storage actually.
minio
Hetz in general goes pretty dissapointing way downhill. They become pricy, touchy regarding acciunt closures. And if you used recent support - it is provided by AI
Bad idea for business use, unless you are ok with taking all responsibility when something fails
Expenny
400TB minimum
Self hosted there’s no minimum
Any news about Kubernetes?
Expensive
No incentive to move away from BackBlaze with free egress from CloudFlare in front.
Great bandwidth pricing, hopefully they won't charge for api calls.
dumb question but does egress/ingress refer to the pov of the storage server? So free Egress means free from Backblaze/S2 to the local machine?
Any word whether this is EU only or do they have plans to do this in the other regions too?
Yes, that's correct.
It would mean free to anywhere, whether you're reading the data on a local machine or sharing it as a public URL.
idrive e2
is it reliable?
do they put it to multiple servers
s3 compatible?
I had issues with e2 and their bandwidth costs 0.01$ per GB after using the quota where hetzner is €0.00119 per GB
Everything is getting more expensive. Hetz has to pay bills and passes down those costs like everyone else.
Just take a storage box
Please correct me if I’m wrong.
So for storing 1TB for a month you get;
Did I get this right? If that’s the case, it’s extremely cheap and time for me to switch from R2/Bunny.
If I understand correctly, they cap the hourly bandwidth at 1.5GB. If exceeded within an hour, you will be charged for it.
You can also take a storagebox for less
Object Storage supposedly should give you Gbps of throughput. For instance I’m able to hit 50Gbps download speeds with Bunny Storage.
Good luck hitting anything over 500Mbps with Storage Box. While it has its purposes, they’re not to be compared with one another.
You can use Object Storage even as database. They have way more use cases than just storing your cold data like in Storage Box.
I’d say Storage Box is more like AWS’s glacier-tier.
Backblaze B2
- $6/TB (so 5.40€/TB)
- 3TB of download bandwidth included for each TB stored
- also free upload
- Free download if through Cloudflare network
So slightly cheaper and 2x more free egress.
iDrive E2 is $4/TB ($2/TB for first year) and just like Backblaze it has 3x free egress. A lot cheaper, still more free egress, but its not that solid as Backblaze.
I wouldn't call Hetzner offer "extremely cheap", its not even competitive with established, popular storage brands as shown above.
Hetzner Object Storage is Hetzner's high margin product on which they want to make money out of low margin VPSes.
From what I've read Hetzner has 1.5GB per hour limit, they bill you above that.
In your 50Gbps example you'll use that hourly limit in 250ms and you'll get billed €1.19 per TB.
Hetzner 20TB bandwidth VPS costs €4.66 btw and then you also get billed €1.19 with 19% VAT, so it may be way more cost effective to route all of your traffic through Hetzner VPS. If its 20TB+ you may just rotate VPSes and it will end up 4x cheaper and data will be sent through 1:1 same network.
You can also use Hetzner VPS together with Storage Box mounted with JuiceFS to get nice caching, to get really cost effective solution.
With AWS you really want to send your data from Cloudfront, because it's way cheaper than sending from EC2 instance, while with Hetzner its other way around. Interesting choice. It's like they don't really want to push data onto it, but rather make maximum margins possible purely because it is product that is easy to use (no rescaling).
There was some rumors about Managed Kubernetes coming to Hetzner and now we can see in what way it will go - high margin product with same price as other providers.
Thank you for the clarification.
I tried Backblaze a while back it wasn’t that fast. So far the fastest I’ve seen is Bunny Storage which I was able to hit 50Gbps and I don’t know what’s their limit.
My servers are on Hetzner so I’m not going to be paying any of those costs you mentioned since I’m within their network.
I believe Bunny’s Falkenstein location is also colo’ed at Hetzner so I think that’s why I’m able to get those speeds.
Whether I will switch to Hetzner’s Object Storage or not will depend on how much bandwidth it’ll give me within their network. If it’s going to be as fast as Bunny’s then I’ll be switching to Hetzner’s and only be paying for the storage.
Niceeeeeee
The guys calling $6.5/TB expensive is broke asf
You know what LE in LET stands for, right?