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So I was looking at the way they're doing pricing, and is it just me or did they go for the most complicated way possible to define usage?
I've been mostly using "discount" S3 providers for stuff/Cloudflare, but they look to have gone for the needs-a-maths-degree route which seems somewhat at odd with their usual billing practices.
It's really not that complicated. At a high level:
And then divide those numbers because it's actually billed by the hour
That makes a lot of sense, and I'm going to blame me coming off a flu and seeing a wall of math and my brain going 'uh what'.
I've been using hetzner for more than 10 years now. Fun facts:
They have a long term vision and are very cost effective, while having good support.
Didn't know about that actually. Very cool.
Pricing seems to be a lot cheaper than from "the big three" (Amazon, Google, Microsoft), but similar to competitors like Backblaze or Wasabi.
Most of their other services are super attractive in terms of price (and also quality in my experience), this seems more like an "hey we have S3 too".
5 euro/m for storage and 1 euro/TB for traffic, it appears. Fairly unattractive if that traffic change includes internal traffic. Their Storage Box and Storage Share products are much cheaper. And of course you can self-host S3 if you need lots of it.
What is the attraction of this product on a budget host like Hetzner? Is it a sign they are moving more upscale?
Presumably s3 will be highly available. Storage box is just a share on some server and has quite a lot of downtime. Okay for backups but not for your main data. We'll see if their s3 is indeed better, but it should be, given that price difference.
The storage cost of their S3 doesn't bother me that much. It's the bandwidth cost that makes me cringe.
Storage Cloud is backed up nightly, though as you say it has occasional downtime. I have Storage Box which is not backed up, but it's on raid 6, and so far I haven't heard of data losses with it
How cheap it is? I am confused on the pricing. I use Backblaze and iDrive already.
I also didn't want to spend energy decoding the price model.... I think it's going to be cheaper than s3 though. Hetzner doesn't charge for bandwidth for example.
They charge 1 euro/TB for bandwidth with this product. That really makes it near useless for various obvious applications. All their other server products have unlimited free bandwidth within the Hetzner network. For some reason, S3 providers like to charge for internal traffic and that means Hetzner's other storage products look a lot better than S3.
There will also be an interesting incentive conflict if Nextcloud adds an S3 module sometime.
Hmm that's not great. I really expected bandwidth to be free. But I understand hetzner wants to profit too, and I rather give it to them than to Amazon.
Oh, that’s neat. I just started moving things to Cloudflare, I’m curious how this compares in pricing mostly
Cloudfare s3 is expensive. Why did you decides going with them?
Inertia/convenience mostly. I needed a little bit of storage and already had ddos protection through them.
