Hetzner Object Storage
Ranked 8 of 10 object storage by recommenders
S3-compatible object storage that several people use as a drop-in replacement and say works well. Critics report recurring downtime, slowdowns and failed transfers.
S3-compatible object storage that several people use as a drop-in replacement and say works well. Critics report recurring downtime, slowdowns and failed transfers.
18 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 8
- criticize it
- 10
- approval share
- 44%
Recommended in 6 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 8 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 0.8 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 6 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Works well in testing
“haven't seen too many issues in my testing, beyond the lack of identity control”
Comment from 8 Mar 2026 in “My Homelab Setup” “it’s been working well so far”
Comment from 12 Apr 2026 in “I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Slowdowns and stalled requests
“Stalls that last a few seconds and hop around the cluster sound like a nightmare to debug.”
Comment from 20 Oct 2026 in “Hetzner object storage outage since last 10 days in HEL data center” “The main problem is that it sometimes slows down to a crawl, or requests fail altogether.”
Comment from 9 Mar 2026 in “My Homelab Setup” “the servers are kind of slow and sometimes fail to upload/download”
Comment from 9 Mar 2026 in “Cloud VM benchmarks 2026: performance/price for 44 VM types over 7 providers” - Comment from 9 Apr 2026 in “BunnyCDN has been silently losing our production files for 15 months”
Failed uploads and downloads
“they are absolutely terrible at s3. random downtimes, incomplete uploads/downloads, capacity issues”
Comment from 11 May 2026 in “I returned to AWS, and was reminded why I left” “The main problem is that it sometimes slows down to a crawl, or requests fail altogether.”
Comment from 9 Mar 2026 in “My Homelab Setup” “the servers are kind of slow and sometimes fail to upload/download”
Comment from 9 Mar 2026 in “Cloud VM benchmarks 2026: performance/price for 44 VM types over 7 providers” - Comment from 9 Apr 2026 in “BunnyCDN has been silently losing our production files for 15 months”
Frequent downtime and outages
“they are absolutely terrible at s3. random downtimes, incomplete uploads/downloads, capacity issues”
Comment from 11 May 2026 in “I returned to AWS, and was reminded why I left” “horror stories for example when it comes to downtime on Hetzner's S3 object store”
Comment from 1 Oct 2026 in “Cloudflare K2: serverless event streams” Generally unreliable, unstable storage
“their S3-compatible storage, which has been a huge fiasco since they launched it”
Comment from 8 Mar 2026 in “My Homelab Setup” “Absolute clown show. Do not trust these people with your business.”
Comment from 21 Oct 2026 in “Hetzner object storage degraded for >1month” “Their s3 is utterly garbage even one year after their launch.”
Comment from 3 Dec 2025 in “100k TPS over a billion rows: the unreasonable effectiveness of SQLite” - Comment from 17 Apr 2026 in “Healthchecks.io Now Uses Self-Hosted Object Storage”
Other object storage people recommend
The four most recommended other object storage, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon S3 | 170 | 84 | 67% | 12 | 14 yrs3 owners | Approved |
| Cloudflare R2 | 85 | 14 | 86% | 12 | — | Approved |
| Backblaze B2 | 50 | 14 | 78% | 12 | — | Approved |
| AWS S3 | 17 | 7 | 71% | 11 | — | Approved |
| Hetzner Object StorageThis page | 8 | 10 | 44% | 6 | — | — |
What people said
18 of the 21 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Absolute clown show. Do not trust these people with your business.”
“Stalls that last a few seconds and hop around the cluster sound like a nightmare to debug.”
“horror stories for example when it comes to downtime on Hetzner's S3 object store”
“Hetzner S3 that cost 7,5EUR/Month for a TB”
“More similar feedback from users here”
“I had a lot of issues with S3 compatible storage a while ago”
“they are absolutely terrible at s3. random downtimes, incomplete uploads/downloads, capacity issues”
“Hetzner is unable to deliver stable object storage”
“They claimed they were S3 compatible, but they were requiring deprecated S3 SDKs”
“it’s been working well so far”
“completely unreliable (errors, slowness, etc.)”
“The main problem is that it sometimes slows down to a crawl, or requests fail altogether.”
“the servers are kind of slow and sometimes fail to upload/download”
“haven't seen too many issues in my testing, beyond the lack of identity control”
“their S3-compatible storage, which has been a huge fiasco since they launched it”
“This one has some quality issues and is no longer competitive in price either.”
“Their s3 is utterly garbage even one year after their launch.”
“Herzner storage is a drop in replacement for S3”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.