I can’t express how much I love hetzner doing this. There is a huge market for people who just need some instances and reliable/cheap object storage to run their apps.
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:
- $5/mo for having the service turned on
- $5/mo for every TB storage above and beyond the first 1TB
- $1 for every TB of data transfer beyond the first 1TB in a month
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’.
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?
I’ve been using hetzner for more than 10 years now. Fun facts:
- They have an API to create infrastructure
- They have a terraform provider which can provide infra on hetzner.
- This storage addition is a very logical one, after loadbalancers, floating IP’s and so on. Very curious to know what will be next!
They have a long term vision and are very cost effective, while having good support.
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.
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?
