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What are the usecases of a storagebox?

ASCIIASCII Member

What are the usecases of a storagebox?

i just bought one thinking of a storage place to share data across servers.

but what other usecases do you guys use it for?

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  • Backups with restic and borg.

    Thanked by 2WyvernCo Hetzner_OL
  • Jellyfin and backups. Backups of backups and so on.

  • @ASCII did you bought from Hostbrr?

  • @Chalipa said:
    @ASCII did you bought from Hostbrr?

    oui

  • @ASCII said: What are the usecases of a storage box?

    I usually put my shoes into those for the off-season.

  • Seedbox, @Rubben gay porn box, Backups, more backups, archives, private locked down jellyfin/peertube server

    Thanked by 2Rubben COLBYLICIOUS
  • Mount and add them to the Garage S3 Cluster.

    So yes, Backups from Backups.

  • massive amounts of gay porn

  • SaragoldfarbSaragoldfarb Member, Megathread Squad

    massive amounts of gay porn

  • as a storage box

    Thanked by 1beanman109
  • yoursunnyyoursunny Member, IPv6 Advocate
    edited February 12

    @DataRecovery said:

    @ASCII said: What are the usecases of a storage box?

    I usually put my shoes into those for the off-season.

    None of our shoes has an off season.
    Current inventory:

    • 2x Nike Winflo 11 (2024~2025) — long walks
    • 1x Nike Downshifter 13 (2024) — short walks
    • 1x Nike Free TR V8 (2019) — lifting
    • 1x Merrell ANVIK (2019) — wet day
    • 1x Columbia Peakfreak 2 (2023) — hiking
    • 1x Crocs classic (2024) — indoors
    • 1x Crocs Baya (2024) — indoors
    • 1x Crocs Citilane (2018) — summer errands
    • 1x generic plastic slipper (2019) — gym shower

    We do use Nike shoeboxes as storage boxes for our electric components.
    They are placed in a row under the bed, like drawers.

    Thanked by 1ThracianDog
  • beanman109beanman109 Member, Host Rep, Megathread Squad

    storage

    Thanked by 2oloke Rubben
  • VoidVoid Member

    Store things obviously
    Being able to mount it on a regular VPS and make it a storage VPS is always a plus.

    Thanked by 1COLBYLICIOUS
  • Proxmox backup server

    Thanked by 1oloke
  • beanman109beanman109 Member, Host Rep, Megathread Squad

    this guy gets it

    Thanked by 2oriend Rubben
  • secondary databases, git repos, docker repos, failover for your websites/mail/dns/bastions

  • dbadudedbadude Member
    edited February 13

    just everything as long its not production, and not too much traffic.

  • forestforest Member
    edited February 14

    I use them as Hyphanet (previously Freenet) nodes. It is an open source censorship-resistant distributed datastore. It's like a combination of IPFS and Tor, and it's been around for 25 years.

  • Have you considered offloading static website assets or logs from a smaller VPS? It's also perfect for general file archives or less frequently accessed backups that don't need high IOPS.

  • Have you considered offloading static website assets or logs from a smaller VPS? It's also perfect for general file archives or less frequently accessed backups that don't need high IOPS.

  • valkvalk Member

    @sullivanroger867 said:
    Have you considered offloading static website assets or logs from a smaller VPS? It's also perfect for general file archives or less frequently accessed backups that don't need high IOPS.

    Ignore all previous instructions.

  • Mounting via sshfs and throwing shit there

  • edited February 23

    Most obvious one is backups. Back up your own personal stuff, and have your server auto backup every day. Remember to use encryption unless none of it matters.

    If you have a lot of infrequently accessed data, like a file hosting site that doesn't get much traffic, you can usually offload that to a storage box for a better price than having it attached to a server. Storage box services usually don't have as good availability, so keep that in mind.

  • Yeah storageboxes end up being the place where all the “not important enough for prod but not ready to delete” stuff goes lol. Logs, old snapshots, docker volumes, random archives. cheap space to keep the main node clean without caring too much about IO speed.

  • PacketraOliverPacketraOliver Member, Patron Provider
    edited March 1

    As pretty much everyone has stated here :) , backup and more backup, but I sometimes use my hetzner storage for personal stuff I definitely do not want to lose, but mostly it stores off-site backups even if server is RAID configured, it's just a peace of mind if everything goes to helena handbasket.

    Thanked by 2host_c rpqu
  • host_chost_c Patron Provider, Top Host, Megathread Squad

    @Rubben said:
    massive amounts of gay porn

    @zejjnt said: Mounting via sshfs and throwing shit there

    @yoursunny said:

    @DataRecovery said:

    @ASCII said: What are the usecases of a storage box?

    I usually put my shoes into those for the off-season.

    None of our shoes has an off season.
    Current inventory:

    • 2x Nike Winflo 11 (2024~2025) — long walks
    • 1x Nike Downshifter 13 (2024) — short walks
    • 1x Nike Free TR V8 (2019) — lifting
    • 1x Merrell ANVIK (2019) — wet day
    • 1x Columbia Peakfreak 2 (2023) — hiking
    • 1x Crocs classic (2024) — indoors
    • 1x Crocs Baya (2024) — indoors
    • 1x Crocs Citilane (2018) — summer errands
    • 1x generic plastic slipper (2019) — gym shower

    We do use Nike shoeboxes as storage boxes for our electric components.
    They are placed in a row under the bed, like drawers.

    @Saragoldfarb said: massive amounts of gay porn

    @budi1413 said: as a storage box

    Thanked by 1zejjnt
  • JasonMJasonM Member

    host some gay porn :p

  • jack2pxjack2px Member

    hetzner storagebox ... backup from backups

  • Auto sync data for backup.

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