Hetzner Storage Box
Hacker ApprovedRanked 6 of 14 cloud storage by recommenders
Cheap SFTP storage that people use for backups, with 1TB for under 5 euros a month. The main complaint is slow transfer speeds.
Cheap SFTP storage that people use for backups, with 1TB for under 5 euros a month. The main complaint is slow transfer speeds.
32 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 27
- criticize it
- 5
- approval share
- 84%
Recommended in 9 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 27 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 5.4 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 9 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
Low price per terabyte
“Hetzner Storage Box is nothing fancy but good enough for a backup and is sensibly cheaper for the alternatives”
Comment from 14 Apr 2026 in “Backblaze has stopped backing up your data” “Their storage box is cheaper than any competitor in the market that I've looked into”
Comment from 28 Jun 2026 in “Hetzner Price Adjustment (June 15th, 2026)” “1TB for under 5 bucks/month, 5TB for under 15. Sftp access. Point your restic there.”
Comment from 14 Apr 2026 in “Backblaze has stopped backing up your data” - Comment from 8 Mar 2026 in “My Homelab Setup”
- Comment from 9 Oct 2026 in “Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?”
- Comment from 14 Aug 2026 in “Gemini 3.7 Flash”
- Comment from 7 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead”
- Comment from 3 Nov 2025 in “Why Nextcloud feels slow to use”
- Comment from 3 Sep 2026 in “Creating backup storage sucks”
- Comment from 24 Apr 2026 in “Incident with Multple GitHub Services”
Good enough for backups
“Hetzner Storage Box is nothing fancy but good enough for a backup and is sensibly cheaper for the alternatives”
Comment from 14 Apr 2026 in “Backblaze has stopped backing up your data” “I'd just get a storage box from hetzner and enable nightly zfs snapshots”
Comment from 15 Apr 2026 in “Backblaze has stopped backing up your data” “good enough for a backup and is sensibly cheaper for the alternatives”
Comment from 14 Apr 2026 in “Backblaze has stopped backing up your data” - Comment from 2 Apr 2026 in “Ask HN: European Tech Alternatives?”
Works with restic, rclone, SFTP
“1TB for under 5 bucks/month, 5TB for under 15. Sftp access. Point your restic there.”
Comment from 14 Apr 2026 in “Backblaze has stopped backing up your data” “Hetzner Storage boxes with rclone and the "crypt" option are a drop-in replacement”
Comment from 23 Nov 2025 in “Mount Proton Drive on Linux using rclone and systemd” “up to and including official support for rclone”
Comment from 23 Nov 2025 in “Mount Proton Drive on Linux using rclone and systemd” - Comment from 5 Oct 2026 in “The Tao of Backup”
Automated snapshots add immutability
“it's more affordable and has automated snapshots that adds a layer of easy immutability”
Comment from 14 Apr 2026 in “Backblaze has stopped backing up your data” “I'd just get a storage box from hetzner and enable nightly zfs snapshots”
Comment from 15 Apr 2026 in “Backblaze has stopped backing up your data”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Slow transfer speeds
“the 3MB/s transfer rates I am currently achieving on a 1000/400 fibre connection”
Comment from 9 Oct 2026 in “The Hetzner Cloud network stack – history and technical overview” “I've heard they are very slow.”
Comment from 5 Dec 2025 in “Ask HN: Does anything beat Hetzner Storage Boxes for the price?”
Other cloud storage people recommend
The four most recommended other cloud 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apple iCloud | 144 | 231 | 38% | 13 | 3 yrs7 owners | — |
| Dropbox | 140 | 166 | 46% | 12 | 12 yrs16 owners | — |
| OneDrive | 86 | 370 | 19% | 12 | 8 yrs6 owners | — |
| Google Drive | 66 | 130 | 34% | 12 | 5 yrs3 owners | — |
| Hetzner Storage BoxThis page | 27 | 5 | 84% | 9 | — | Approved |
What people said
33 of the 37 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“appear to not have a WAF in front of their Nextcloud shared storage boxes”
“I also use the storage box and easily have 30Mo/s bandwidth”
“the 3MB/s transfer rates I am currently achieving on a 1000/400 fibre connection”
“13 eur for 5tb is more than enough for immich backups for my personal use.”
“Don't ever give it up, it won't be $5 anymore.”
“Cheap and supports SSH SFTP WebDAV”
“which is only ~$3.50/mo USD for 1TB of data”
“Hetzner gives you 1 TB of cloud storage for 4 USD per month.”
“their storage boxes split up into sub accounts for my and friends backups and music”
“Their storage box is cheaper than any competitor in the market that I've looked into”
“<$4/mo for 500GB of storage.”
“I'd just get a storage box from hetzner and enable nightly zfs snapshots”
“it's more affordable and has automated snapshots that adds a layer of easy immutability”
“This is quite a bit more expensive than Backblaze if you have more than 5 TBs or so”
“good enough for a backup and is sensibly cheaper for the alternatives”
“new hetzner storage boxes(cost effectiveness)”
“the only reliability offered is the disks being in RAID. There is no geo-redundancy at all.”
“the best value you can get”
“Hetzner Storage Box is nothing fancy but good enough for a backup and is sensibly cheaper for the alternatives”
“Hetzner storagebox sounds good”
“1TB for under 5 bucks/month, 5TB for under 15. Sftp access. Point your restic there.”
“At least with Storage Box you know it's just a dumb storage box.”
“insane value for money at 11 euro per 5 terabytes per month”
“I can vouch for using Hetzner for storage (and cloud VPS).”
“quite cheap storage for stuff like backups”
“It's cheap, and it works great”
“a little cheaper for 1TB (I pay 5USD monthly including VAT, billed monthly too)”
“It's not as fast as local storage of course, but it's cheap!”
“I've heard they are very slow.”
“up to and including official support for rclone”
“Hetzner Storage boxes with rclone and the "crypt" option are a drop-in replacement”
“I run this setup for home and work and we’re doing this on 10tb+.”
“rent a Hetzner storage box (1TB for below 5 Euros a month)”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.