I was just looking for cheap backup space recently and Hetzners Storage Box BX21 is 13€ per month for 5 TB, 20 Snapshots and unlimited traffic. I did not compare the service with backblaze yet, though.
I’m waiting for hetzner object storage (they were hiring some people for this a couple of months ago)
What are the current alternatives?
- Idrive e2 $4/TB/month
- Backblaze B2 6$/TB/month
- Wasabi $7/TB/month
- Cloudflare R2 $15/TB/month
- AWS S3 $21/TB/month (tricky, cheaper profiles available)
- GCP $20/TB/month (tricky, cheaper profiles available)
- Oracle $25/TB/month
- Azure $18.4/TB/month
- DigitalOcean / Linode / Vultr ~ $20/TB/month
Free egress is bittersweet. IIRC, previously if you ever actually needed your data back it would cost a lot to download. I don’t think this is better on average but it’s not quite a 20% bump considering that.
This also might allow more interesting integrations where you send and receive large data to your store frequently?
I didn’t use them for instance media storage because of egress fees. Maybe now I can switch.
So storage goes from $5 to $6 = 20% increase But we get free download x3 of whatever size we store there? It was 1GB a day limit before right? Above that its 0.01$ per GB, but thats same as before I think.
If all above is correct, its still not that bad imo, at least I dont have to be afraid of using backup, at least not for the first 3 times :)
For anyone who doesn’t know, egress is already free if you route it through CloudFlare’s Bandwidth Alliance Program from a few years back. If you are already using this setup, there doesn’t appear to be any up side to this up coming change (other than the bill).
