Yeah it can get pretty ridiculous. Fortunately over time things tend to even out, but for whatever reason a lot of early HN participants downvote everything. My theory is that the people who would downvote a question like this one are the people who go around reading passive aggression in every little thing. Possibly people that assume every question is secretly an agenda to propagate an opinion they disagree with, and that there are hidden implications everywhere.
Ah thank you, I must clarify! I was terribly and unintentionally ambiguous earlier.
I didn't mean earlier members as in people who joined HN in the early years, rather I meant the people who tend to react and comment within maybe the first 30 minutes after a post/comment.
I actually find the early members (as in the early 2010s and before) to be among the best. I have no idea if they are downvoters or not, but some of my favorite conversations on HN have been with these users.
As far as sourcing, definitely take with a big grain of salt because this is also purely anecdata that I've noticed from spending way too much time on HN, both repeatedly having my own comments downvoted initially while (usually) rising up over time, and observing the same phenomenon on many other people's comments.
iDrive is slow and charges extremely high fees for usage above provisioned. They also have a history of increasing prices for individual contracts only a few weeks before renewal, so you can't possibly have enough time to move your data.
Hetzner Storage Boxes (2.50-3 EUR per TB) is probably the sweet spot. B2 if you need an object storage API.
Do storage boxes have any availability risk? “Storage box” sounds like you have an actual VM with an attached spinning disk, which doesn’t seem tolerant to hardware failures. I couldn’t find any details on their website about this.
They're on triple redundancy Ceph as far as I know, not geo redundant, but at that price you can buy one in Germany and one in Finland and still come out cheaper than B2.
From Hetzner's snapshot data loss email two years ago:
"The snapshot contents are distributed over multiple internal servers and data is stored in a way that allows up to two separate disks to fail without impacting data integrity. This means the snapshot can still be accessed, even if two disks fail at the same time."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_iDrive