Looking for Real-World Feedback on Onidel Object Storage & HostBrr Storage Box

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• b311ion Member

  10:31AM edited 10:33AM

  I guess I posted in the wrong thread; instead of posting it under "Requests/Help" I posted it under "General." I am really sorry about that. If any mod sees this, kindly change it.
• Smigit Member

  11:06AM

  I’m using Onidel’s Object Storage to backup my PC using the Arq application. Hasn’t skipped a beat. Don’t have anything too exciting to say, it just works and performance for me has been good to their Sydney location, which is just a few hundred KM away from where I am.

  Originally I was using MinIO which I’d set up, but pulled that down as the community edition was nerfed and stopped getting distributed security updates. Decided at that point to just adopt a managed solution, and the timing was around the time Onidel launched their service starting in Singapore (later migrated to Sydney when that opened up).

  Also find Onidels support to always be responsive, which I’m sure you’ve seen with other feedback on the VPS service.

  So happy to recommend them.

  I have no personal experience using HostBrr Storage Box, so can’t comment there.

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• b311ion Member

  11:53AM

  @Smigit said:
  I’m using Onidel’s Object Storage to backup my PC using the Arq application. Hasn’t skipped a beat. Don’t have anything too exciting to say, it just works and performance for me has been good to their Sydney location, which is just a few hundred KM away from where I am.

  Originally I was using MinIO which I’d set up, but pulled that down as the community edition was nerfed and stopped getting distributed security updates. Decided at that point to just adopt a managed solution, and the timing was around the time Onidel launched their service starting in Singapore (later migrated to Sydney when that opened up).

  Also find Onidels support to always be responsive, which I’m sure you’ve seen with other feedback on the VPS service.

  So happy to recommend them.

  I have no personal experience using HostBrr Storage Box, so can’t comment there.

  Thanks for the feedback, really appreciate it!

  I have a couple of questions about their object storage:

  1. Is the plan limited to a single bucket, or are you subscribing to a storage capacity that you can use across multiple buckets, each with its own configuration?
  2. Have you noticed any performance drops when syncing large volumes of data? I’m mainly trying to figure out whether they impose any rate limits.
• b311ion Member

  11:57AM

  1. Is the plan limited to a single bucket, or are you subscribing to a storage capacity that you can use across multiple buckets, each with its own configuration?

  @oloke can you give any feedback on this?
• oloke Member, Host Rep

  12:01PM

  @b311ion said: 1. Is the plan limited to a single bucket, or are you subscribing to a storage capacity that you can use across multiple buckets, each with its own configuration?

  You can create multiple buckets and allocated storage included in plan is shared between them.
  We have a wiki page on the service which may help you understand how our object storage service works:
  https://kb.onidel.com/hc/kb/articles/1770661410-object-storage-s3

  2. Have you noticed any performance drops when syncing large volumes of data? I’m mainly trying to figure out whether they impose any rate limits.

  We have rate limits on requests per second to prevent abuse of the service, but they should not interfere with regular usage.

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• daileee Member

  12:05PM

  Got DE & US hostbrr Storage Box, been solid for my use (storing a bunch of zipped photos, music, some random yt videos).

  @b311ion said: I vaguely remember seeing a comment that Storage Box might be capped at around 20 MiB/s.

  Back when the deals were still hot, it was slow af...but so far it seems much more stable. I push new music like once a week and get much more reasonable speeds, like 80-150 MiB/s.

  and i mount both using rclone vfs, use it for navidrome, been good so far. dont know how it would perform paired with something like immich/jellyfin though.

  This some recent test
  DE VPS (Nuremberg) > DE Storagebox

  x@netcup:~# rclone copy 10GB.bin hostbrr-de:/home/xxxxx/MyFiles --progress --ignore-existing --transfers 2 --ignore-checksum
  2026/09/26 14:00:57 NOTICE: hostbrr-de: No host key validation is being performed. Set known_hosts_file to enable it. See: https://rclone.org/sftp/#host-key-validation
  Transferred:           10 GiB / 10 GiB, 100%, 171.160 MiB/s, ETA 0s
  Transferred:            1 / 1, 100%
  Elapsed time:        57.9s
  

  US VPS (LAX) > US Storagebox

  x@kuroit:~# rclone copy test hostbrr-us:/home/xxxx/MyFiles/test --progress --ignore-existing --transfers 2 --ignore-checksum
  2026/09/26 13:31:07 NOTICE: hostbrr-us: No host key validation is being performed. Set known_hosts_file to enable it. See: https://rclone.org/sftp/#host-key-validation
  Transferred:            2 GiB / 2 GiB, 100%, 46.648 MiB/s, ETA 0s
  Checks:                 0 / 0, -, Listed 2
  Transferred:            2 / 2, 100%
  Elapsed time:        35.4s
  

  for Onidel object storage, never use it. So far i only rely on B2, but im interested with their sg object storage since its closer to me. Might wait for BF just in case there's another object storage deal from @onidel 👀

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• gemini_geek Member

  12:28PM

  both of them are not for production, HostBrr used very briefly unpredictable disk performance, just use them for backup, if you have lots of file don't buy 1tb plan at onidel buy 3x 250gb or 2x 512, recently moved everything out of them, now just using them as back up till my term expires
• onidel Member, Patron Provider, Top Host, Megathread Squad

  12:49PM

  @gemini_geek said:
  both of them are not for production, HostBrr used very briefly unpredictable disk performance, just use them for backup, if you have lots of file don't buy 1tb plan at onidel buy 3x 250gb or 2x 512, recently moved everything out of them, now just using them as back up till my term expires

  sorry, but if you are only using 19 GB of storage while consuming the full 3 million object limit, then unfortunately our Object Storage service may not be a good fit for your use case.

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• Alyx Member, Host Rep

  1:42PM

  Tried hostbrr 2 times, each time cancelled the VPS again within hours.
  The IO performance was abysmal in both cases.

  Could be I just ended up on a bad node or something, but probably won’t try a 3rd time to find out.