Hetzner Storage Share and Storage Box: Data storage and management made easy
In this technical retrospective (2022), @TimWolla shares practical architectural lessons learned from running, scaling, or migrating production software under lean constraints.
Core Principles for Independent Builders:
Defaulting to simpler architectures (such as monolithic frameworks, SQLite, or managed VPS) prevents early engineering bankruptcy.
Evaluating true compute and egress costs reveals that high cloud bills can often be slashed by 80%+ through judicious re-platforming.
Code you write at 2 AM as a solo engineer must be easy to debug six months later without complex microservice dependencies.
Community Debate Themes:
HN engineers debated the tradeoffs between cloud convenience and raw server economics, database indexing strategies, and resisting premature architectural complexity.
CATEGORY Frugal Engineering →
HISTORICAL ERA Pandemic Bubble (2020–2022)
COMMUNITY SCORE ★ 70 points
TOTAL DISCUSSIONS 17 comments
Their support is great and their services are damn good as well.
My work place have been on the previous storage box BX40 for 2TBs of off-site storage for 4 years. This announced update to the service, shows that BX21 service has just upgraded our offsite backup to 5TBs and no difference to the monthly price we already pay!
Anyone using this with an end to end encrypted file sync client?
(Preferably, an open source one, and preferably using “storage box”, not “storage share” since Nextcloud routinely has CVE’s)
already switched to the new 'storage share' offering... doubled my storage space, additional backup/restore capability and that for ~0.3Euro a month less (!) than before :)
This looks very compelling.
Have there been any updates from Cloudflare about when they expect R2 to reach GA?
That low end storage box looks really good. A TB of cheap raided space accessible via Borg etc. neat