Should I buy hostbrr's storage box?

noloudelou · March 2025

I saw its 500g storage box and I think it's a pretty good offer, but just two questions: I saw someone said its io and bandwidth is pretty low, is it better right now? And does hostbrr have a money back guarantee? I didn't find it on their website. Thank you guys!

sliix · March 2025

Yes

barbaros · March 2025

Yes No Maybe

itachikonoha · March 2025

Yes better.
No money back IIRC.

noloudelou · March 2025

@sliix said:
Yes

Tanhks bro

@barbaros said:
Yes No Maybe

Good answer, contained everything

noloudelou · March 2025

@itachikonoha said:
1. Yes better.
2. No money back IIRC.

Thanks bro

wadhah · March 2025

It worked great for my needs. Just using it as a backup of a backup.

Speeds were fine worldwide. Not the most amazing but it's a 7/y I'm not complaining.

noloudelou · March 2025

@wadhah said:
It worked great for my needs. Just using it as a backup of a backup.

Speeds were fine worldwide. Not the most amazing but it's a 7/y I'm not complaining.

Thanks bro, decided to buy

wadhah · March 2025

@noloudelou said:

@wadhah said:
It worked great for my needs. Just using it as a backup of a backup.

Speeds were fine worldwide. Not the most amazing but it's a 7/y I'm not complaining.

Thanks bro, decided to buy

Congrats, make sure to read the tos and aup and stuff. It's not a DMCA ignore host

noloudelou · March 2025

@wadhah said:

@noloudelou said:

@wadhah said:
It worked great for my needs. Just using it as a backup of a backup.

Speeds were fine worldwide. Not the most amazing but it's a 7/y I'm not complaining.

Thanks bro, decided to buy

Congrats, make sure to read the tos and aup and stuff. It's not a DMCA ignore host

okay, I won't do dmca thing on purpose I suppose

subb · March 2025

7/year for 500g is a great deal imo. and it works pretty well with rclone from my experience, which provides great flexibility as well.

the_doctor · March 2025

I have one and the bandwidth is not the greatest. IO hasn't been a problem, but the transfer speeds are slow. Still a great value.

budi1413 · March 2025

buy first regret later

DrNutella · March 2025

Storage box easily mounted into VPS or what yall do with it? Not enough room for my media

ManuelM · March 2025

YES!

noloudelou · March 2025

Thank you everyone, got many useful advice, bought it already but it's still pending, will test it tomorrow

rcy026 · March 2025

@DrNutella said:
Storage box easily mounted into VPS or what yall do with it? Not enough room for my media

I made a small wrapper around rsync that I call brrsync (I'm more proud of the name than the code ) so I can easily upload, download or sync files from cli. I use it mostly to move around small configs, scripts, zonefiles and stuff like that.

JohnFilch123 · March 2025

Yes

noloudelou · March 2025

@rcy026 said:

@DrNutella said:
Storage box easily mounted into VPS or what yall do with it? Not enough room for my media

I made a small wrapper around rsync that I call brrsync (I'm more proud of the name than the code ) so I can easily upload, download or sync files from cli. I use it mostly to move around small configs, scripts, zonefiles and stuff like that.

Can I get to see brrsync? It sounds so good

terminator · March 2025

Yes you can ask for refund within 7 days. https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/202755/hostbrr-valentine-offers-10-gbps-storagebox-7-year-cpanel-85-off-flash/p1 look at the last. Bandthwidth speed is decent. But if you are thinking to run nextcloud on storage boxes , low memory makes it horrible.

anakara · March 2025

@terminator said:
Yes you can ask for refund within 7 days. https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/202755/hostbrr-valentine-offers-10-gbps-storagebox-7-year-cpanel-85-off-flash/p1 look at the last. Bandthwidth speed is decent. But if you are thinking to run nextcloud on storage boxes , low memory makes it horrible.

Is the 1TB package much better?

noloudelou · March 2025

@terminator said:
Yes you can ask for refund within 7 days. https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/202755/hostbrr-valentine-offers-10-gbps-storagebox-7-year-cpanel-85-off-flash/p1 look at the last. Bandthwidth speed is decent. But if you are thinking to run nextcloud on storage boxes , low memory makes it horrible.

Thank you bro, low memory is not a worry as long as the network is good enough to mount it onto my vps, I'll put nextcloud on my vps then. Thanks

terminator · March 2025

If you buy 1TB package, you'll get 1TB storage with 5TB bandthwidth. You will not be allotted anything extra such as memory even if you buy 5TB storage boxes as far as I know. Therefore if you need 500GB, then don't go for 1TB.

labze · March 2025

@terminator said:
Yes you can ask for refund within 7 days. https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/202755/hostbrr-valentine-offers-10-gbps-storagebox-7-year-cpanel-85-off-flash/p1 look at the last. Bandthwidth speed is decent. But if you are thinking to run nextcloud on storage boxes , low memory makes it horrible.

Memory will be doubled across all packages soon.

rcy026 · March 2025

@noloudelou said:

@rcy026 said:

@DrNutella said:
Storage box easily mounted into VPS or what yall do with it? Not enough room for my media

I made a small wrapper around rsync that I call brrsync (I'm more proud of the name than the code ) so I can easily upload, download or sync files from cli. I use it mostly to move around small configs, scripts, zonefiles and stuff like that.

Can I get to see brrsync? It sounds so good

I would have to clean out some of the code first since it does some internal stuff for authentication, but basically it just checks if the first argument is ls, put, get, syncup, syncdown or mount, and then uses rclone or rsync to accomplish it. It's really a ten minute job to script it.
If I get the time I might clean it up some, but it's really nothing you cant do yourself in ten minutes.

hostnoob · March 2025

I'm really happy with mine, and for $7/yr even happier

rcy026 · March 2025

@noloudelou said:
Can I get to see brrsync? It sounds so good

I made some cleanups and simplifications and renamed it brclone.sh since it's only using rclone now, but you can of course call it whatever you like.
It should pretty much run out of the box as long as rclone and fusermounts exists.
The script requires a working configuration of rclone, so run 'rclone config' first.
You will need to adjust the REMOTE variable in the script, it should point to whatever you named your rclone configuration and the remote path, something like "rcloneconfig:/home2/username/brclone" The rest should be pretty much self-explainatory.

I just have to add that 500G at $7 per year and how easy it is to use with this script, it's good value for the money.

Use at your own risk, ymmv, take backups first, no responsibility etc etc.

#!/bin/bash

RCLONE="/usr/bin/rclone"
REMOTE="EDIT THIS!!!"

# Display usage information
usage() {
    echo "Usage: $0 [-v] <command> [arguments]"
    echo "Commands:"
    echo "  ls <path>       - List files in remote path"
    echo "  tree            - Show directory structure"
    echo "  put <file/dir>  - Upload file or directory"
    echo "  get <file>      - Download file"
    echo "  syncup <dir>    - Sync local dir to remote (use with caution)"
    echo "  syncdown <dir>  - Sync remote dir to local"
    echo "  mount <remote path> <local path> - Mount remote to local"
    echo "  umount <local path>  - Unmount local path"
    exit 1
}

# Ensure at least one argument is passed
[[ $# -eq 0 ]] && usage

# Enable verbose mode
if [[ "$1" == "-v" ]]; then
    RCLONE="$RCLONE -vvv"
    shift
fi

# Ensure a valid command is given
case "$1" in
    ls)
        #[[ -z "$2" ]] && usage # hmm, guess you could run ls without args
        "$RCLONE" ls "$REMOTE/$2"
        ;;
    tree)
        "$RCLONE" tree "$REMOTE"
        ;;
    put)
        [[ -z "$2" ]] && usage
        if [[ -d "$2" ]]; then
            "$RCLONE" copy "$2" "$REMOTE/$2"
        elif [[ -f "$2" ]]; then
            "$RCLONE" copyto "$2" "$REMOTE/$2"
        else
            echo "Error: '$2' is not a valid file or directory."
            exit 1
        fi
        ;;
    get)
        [[ -z "$2" ]] && usage
        "$RCLONE" copy "$REMOTE/$2" "$2"
        ;;
    syncup)
        [[ -z "$2" ]] && usage
        "$RCLONE" sync "$2" "$REMOTE/$2"
        ;;
    syncdown)
        [[ -z "$2" ]] && usage
        "$RCLONE" sync "$REMOTE/$2" "$2"
        ;;
    mount)
        [[ -z "$2" || -z "$3" ]] && usage
        "$RCLONE" mount "$REMOTE/$2" "$3" --daemon
        ;;
    umount)
        [[ -z "$2" ]] && usage
        /usr/bin/fusermount -u "$2"
        ;;
    *)
        echo "Error: Unknown command '$1'"
        usage
        ;;
esac

noloudelou · March 2025

@rcy026 said:

@noloudelou said:
Can I get to see brrsync? It sounds so good

I made some cleanups and simplifications and renamed it brclone.sh since it's only using rclone now, but you can of course call it whatever you like.
It should pretty much run out of the box as long as rclone and fusermounts exists.
The script requires a working configuration of rclone, so run 'rclone config' first.
You will need to adjust the REMOTE variable in the script, it should point to whatever you named your rclone configuration and the remote path, something like "rcloneconfig:/home2/username/brclone" The rest should be pretty much self-explainatory.

I just have to add that 500G at $7 per year and how easy it is to use with this script, it's good value for the money.

Use at your own risk, ymmv, take backups first, no responsibility etc etc.
#!/bin/bash

RCLONE="/usr/bin/rclone"
REMOTE="EDIT THIS!!!"

# Display usage information
usage() {
    echo "Usage: $0 [-v] <command> [arguments]"
    echo "Commands:"
    echo "  ls <path>       - List files in remote path"
    echo "  tree            - Show directory structure"
    echo "  put <file/dir>  - Upload file or directory"
    echo "  get <file>      - Download file"
    echo "  syncup <dir>    - Sync local dir to remote (use with caution)"
    echo "  syncdown <dir>  - Sync remote dir to local"
    echo "  mount <remote path> <local path> - Mount remote to local"
    echo "  umount <local path>  - Unmount local path"
    exit 1
}

# Ensure at least one argument is passed
[[ $# -eq 0 ]] && usage

# Enable verbose mode
if [[ "$1" == "-v" ]]; then
    RCLONE="$RCLONE -vvv"
    shift
fi

# Ensure a valid command is given
case "$1" in
    ls)
        #[[ -z "$2" ]] && usage # hmm, guess you could run ls without args
        "$RCLONE" ls "$REMOTE/$2"
        ;;
    tree)
        "$RCLONE" tree "$REMOTE"
        ;;
    put)
        [[ -z "$2" ]] && usage
        if [[ -d "$2" ]]; then
            "$RCLONE" copy "$2" "$REMOTE/$2"
        elif [[ -f "$2" ]]; then
            "$RCLONE" copyto "$2" "$REMOTE/$2"
        else
            echo "Error: '$2' is not a valid file or directory."
            exit 1
        fi
        ;;
    get)
        [[ -z "$2" ]] && usage
        "$RCLONE" copy "$REMOTE/$2" "$2"
        ;;
    syncup)
        [[ -z "$2" ]] && usage
        "$RCLONE" sync "$2" "$REMOTE/$2"
        ;;
    syncdown)
        [[ -z "$2" ]] && usage
        "$RCLONE" sync "$REMOTE/$2" "$2"
        ;;
    mount)
        [[ -z "$2" || -z "$3" ]] && usage
        "$RCLONE" mount "$REMOTE/$2" "$3" --daemon
        ;;
    umount)
        [[ -z "$2" ]] && usage
        /usr/bin/fusermount -u "$2"
        ;;
    *)
        echo "Error: Unknown command '$1'"
        usage
        ;;
esac

Thanks bro! It's really a big help!

Turbo_Pascal · March 2025

For those who don't know, it's probably worth mentioning that uploading a directory via rsync is literally one command. It isn't even necessary to have SSH running in another window. All this I learned very recently. One just needs to create a destination directory via the easy web interface.

@rcy026 said: how easy it is to use with this script

This script looks interesting, though I honestly don't know what it does.

Newbies should not be intimidated.

noloudelou · March 2025

@Turbo_Pascal said:
For those who don't know, it's probably worth mentioning that uploading a directory via rsync is literally one command. It isn't even necessary to have SSH running in another window. All this I learned very recently. One just needs to create a destination directory via the easy web interface.

@rcy026 said: how easy it is to use with this script

This script looks interesting, though I honestly don't know what it does.

Newbies should not be intimidated.

Yeah that's true, scripts need to be run with caution

Turbo_Pascal · March 2025

For those who don't read code, what does that script do? Genuinely curious.

@rcy026 said: I made some cleanups and simplifications and renamed it brclone.sh since it's only using rclone now, but you can of course call it whatever you like

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