[throwaway9d0291]

> a Hetzner storage box

I think the better comparison would be an SX-line dedicated server from Hetzner [0] and this server isn't too far off that.

This service: $10 for 8TB, or $1.25/TB.

Hetzner SX62: 64€ for 40TB, or €1.6/TB ($1.9 USD).

> rsync.net

Rsync.net is ridiculously overpriced. Even at their cheapest tier, 1TBmonth costs $15, for which you can buy 7.9TB at Hetzner. Even if you created 3 redundant copies at Hetzner, you'd be paying only half what rsync.net would charge.

[0]: https://www.hetzner.com/de/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-sx?co...

[anderspitman]

I think you're selling rsync.net a little short here. I'm not aware of another service that offers a turnkey remote full filesystem (ie not just an object store) that you can access over SSH.

Your Hetzner numbers are impressive, but I don't think there's anything available in the US for a similar cost. Most block storage I've seen is ~$10/mo/TB. I would love to be proven wrong on that.

[throwaway9d0291]

> I'm not aware of another service that offers a turnkey remote full filesystem (ie not just an object store) that you can access over SSH.

I know it's not what you meant but keep in mind that as-described, that's every single server provider.

And I think including what you meant (e.g. ZFS set up), it's literally a one-line command to create a new zpool on a new server.

I'm not saying that rsync.net is worthless but it's certainly not worth the price it's charging for anyone who cares about the price.

> Your Hetzner numbers are impressive, but I don't think there's anything available in the US for a similar cost.

When I was in the US I came to the same conclusion, so went with colocation.

However OVH has a datacenter just over the border in Canada and its brands Kimsufi, SoYouStart and OVH [0-2] can get you down to $5/TBmonth.

And it looks like they actually have a couple of US datacenters now, which is new. A quick look shows that you can get a 16TB server for $92/month [3], which is $5.75/TBmonth.

But overall it looks like the dedicated server market in the US is still super expensive. You can always keep your bulk data in Europe.

[0]: https://www.kimsufi.com/us/en/servers.xml

[1]: https://www.soyoustart.com/us/essential-servers/

[2]: https://us.ovhcloud.com/

[3]: https://us.ovhcloud.com/bare-metal/advance/adv-stor-1/

[apitman]

I think you have a different idea of "turnkey" than I do. For me, having an OVH account, provisioning a VM, setting up the user account, hardening the server, managing backups, etc etc doesn't count.