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Hetzner launches s3-compatible object storage (docs.hetzner.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I can't express how much I love hetzner doing this. There is a huge market for people who just need some instances and reliable/cheap object storage to run their apps.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (4 children)

So I was looking at the way they're doing pricing, and is it just me or did they go for the most complicated way possible to define usage?

I've been mostly using "discount" S3 providers for stuff/Cloudflare, but they look to have gone for the needs-a-maths-degree route which seems somewhat at odd with their usual billing practices.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It's really not that complicated. At a high level:

$5/mo for having the service turned on
$5/mo for every TB storage above and beyond the first 1TB
$1 for every TB of data transfer beyond the first 1TB in a month

And then divide those numbers because it's actually billed by the hour

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That makes a lot of sense, and I'm going to blame me coming off a flu and seeing a wall of math and my brain going 'uh what'.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I do think the phrasing is complicated, IIRC Hetzner moved from monthly to hourly billing recently, so they probably had to have legally well-defined terms while also wanting to do a monthly-based system in hourly terms.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I wasn't aware they had changed billing from monthly rates, which makes them doing all this hourly math stuff make a lot more sense.

The way they phrased the amount of data you get hourly that's counted as free and then rated against a monthly rate threw me since it looked like they billed based on monthly AND then buckets, but the buckets had some portion of free data based on how long the bucket existed, and that transfer was based on the same metric.

Just a very excessively detailed and precise way to do it, but then again, being from Germany I suppose that should be expected.