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hostbrr storage boxes. Any experiences with them? Good or bad?
I just need a bunch of remote storage for backup storage for about ~50 websites. Really happy with my shared hosting plan that I purchased recently with them, and looking at their storage box plans that appear to be a really solid deal. Anybody have real world experiences with them? What is speed like? Any reasons to avoid or be hesitant to order one of these?
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They are super cheap; you get the service you pay for.
I have them in each region and they both work really well. You can mount them to your server over SSHFS or install nextcloud on them, among many other things. They come with a DirectAdmin panel so you can also host websites or static assets as well.
SSH is weird and acts weird. Besides that, its fine.
this would replace a hetzner storage box. I don't need to install anything on it....really it's just to act as a cheap dumb storage location for website backups. Probably will go with US location as that's where I'm located (us east coast), though the hetzner German location for storage box has been fine as well.
I've been using their storage boxes for server backups and have had a positive experience so far.
My current setup:
Performance has been reliable for backup purposes - transfers are consistent and I haven't experienced any downtime. The value proposition seems solid, especially for the price point.
take me a example
I back up one of my VPSes (
hostbbr-vps-us, Fake IP23.45.123.11, SSH Port2222) tohostbbr-storage-box, using rsync.The backup runs via the CRON Job module in DirectAdmin on the storage box. I drop the SSH key (
rsync.key) into my home directory:/home/yourusername/rsync.key.The job pulls down
/opt/py_appsfrom the VPS — that’s where most of my Python apps live. I excludevenvand__pycache__directories since they’re not needed in backups.Here's the actual command I run:
Runs quiet, syncs only what changed, and saves to
/home/yourusername/vps-data-backups/hostbbr-vps-us/.No offence, but.. Bullshit. Those boxes perform way better then they should. For your mentioned usecase a fine choice. You wont find a bigger bang for the buck for backup storage.
I've been fine with Hostbrr storage. The only thing I would offer is that it's not clear if you're backing up sites that you have hosted with Hostbrr already.
I would definitely choose to have the backups with a different provider than the one that hosts the websites.
If L.E.T. has taught me anything, it's that even providers that seem to have everything together and will be around for the long term can go away, and if you've got all your eggs in one basket, your backup didn't really help.
yeah, my hostbrr hosted sites aren't critical. Just a few small utility sites that aren't important for anything. The 50 sites I'd be backing up are all on other providers. Thanks for the tip, though, always good to keep that in mind!
Bought a $7/yr 500GB storage box 3 months ago to store another copy of my backups. No problems yet.
Using mine mounted with rclone (sftp) + crypt and a small VFS cache. Performance has been amazing so far. No complaints. Truly worth the money.
Could you explain how to setup this
my experience is good enough for backup usage, particularly for the cheap price you paid.
had to get my ip whitelisted, but it was quick. no issues and im very happy with it
This business looks serious.
Millions are likely to be lost in case of downtime.
This is a proper strategy.
@network 's millions won't leave his pocket (unless there's another $7/year offer):
just good.
I'll store a copy on any $7/yr storage box available. Are there any other than hostbrr?