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by vineyardmike 813 days ago
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.
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_cenw 813 days ago
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.

You also only get a very locked down shell.

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ddorian43 812 days ago
It's not CEPH. Some type of raid: https://docs.hetzner.com/robot/storage-box/general/#reliabil...
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_cenw 811 days ago
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."

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