Comment by anderspitman | Hacker News Reader

Comment by anderspitman | Hacker News Reader

I didn't see BX11 in Hetzner's VPS offerings. After searching I realized it's a different "storage box" product. Looks like they support FTP, SCP, SFTP, rsync, WebDAV, HTTP, and more. I didn't realize anyone other than rsync.net offered SSH transfer for cloud storage. And this is about 1/10 the cost. Also rsync.net doesn't support anything HTTP-based by design[0]. This could be a nice alternative. @rsync do you know enough about Hetzner's offering to give us a breakdown of tradeoffs?

I'm feeling super jealous right now that these boxes aren't offered in the US currently. Anyone know if that's planned? Might be enough to get me off Backblaze/Wasabi. I'd love to have more options than S3 as protocol.

Also Hetzner's VPS bandwidth allowance (20TB/~$5/mo) is insanely good compared to the next best I'm aware of, which is DigitalOcean (1TB/~$5/mo), and that is offered in the US. This might be perfect for a tunneling service product I'm working on. Anyone have experience with how good the speeds are from their US East datacenter?

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24501103

In my experience transit into hetzner in EU from the US ain’t the greatest- perhaps level 3’s fault.

Hetzner is buying cheap traffic, you get what you paid for. It's usable, but you likely won't get full speed outside of Europe. You can set up a VPS on DigitalOcean in Frankfurt as a reverse proxy if you need a better network.

We do have another storage option, which is our Hetzner Cloud Volumes. The prices are visible here (https://www.hetzner.com/cloud) when you scroll down and here's some general info about Volumes (https://docs.hetzner.com/cloud/volumes/). All of our cloud products, including Volumes, are also available at our ASH location (Ashburn, Virginia). --Katie

OVH might be worth looking at for tunneling as well as they have newish unmetered offerings for a few $ more: https://us.ovhcloud.com/vps/

Nice, thanks! I think I had heard about the 250Mbps option a while back. Are the 500 and 1000 newer? Those are all great deals.

EDIT: Those VPS options only seem to be available in the US. Is that right or am I doing something wrong?

If you click the flag icon in the top you can rotate locations. I have only personally used CA (https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-ca/vps/) and US, but it looks like similar are offered in other countries such as https://www.ovhcloud.com/de/vps/.

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