Oof. That's $2,150 to pull your whole pool back once. Makes my RackNerd ingress fee look like a parking ticket.
I stand by Vultr for your case then. $0.01 egress is at least predictable pain.
Thanks for the catch. That flips the 12-month TCO completely:
Hostinger 43TB: $6,192 storage + $0 egress = $6,192/year
Vultr 43TB: $4,128 storage + $430 egress = $4,558/year
Hetzner 43TB: ~€4,200 storage + €344 egress + API = ~$4,724/year
So Vultr wins on pure TCO for annual restore. Hostinger only wins if you restore zero bytes.
My OVHcloud pipe in Portland is unmetered 500mbit. The whole point is I don't do egress math, I just have a line item.
But yeah, steveipw's colo sounds like a prison. Different problem.
If you go Vultr or Hetzner, test your rsync with --dry-run first. Their S3 implementations have quirks around multipart thresholds — see https://docs.hetzner.com for the exact limits. I spent a weekend debugging 5GB+ files failing silently because the default chunk size hit a limit.
Also ZFS send is not cleaner for this. You want object storage, not block. Keep it simple.
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This is why I pay crypto and don't sign contracts. My current setup is two MinIO nodes, one on a Contabo VPS in Nuremberg, one on a GreenCloudVPS box in Singapore. Replication between them is the "backup." Total cost under $30/mo for ~6TB.
Egress is whatever the VPS bandwidth cap is. Contabo is 200Mbit unmetered on the plan I have.
Contabo object storage API fees are what got me. Their VPS bandwidth doesn't help when you're hitting their S3-compatible endpoint from outside. Different product, same brand, different trap.
For model checkpoints I gave up and bought a used Dell R720 locally. $400, 12 bays, TrueNAS. Egress is walking downstairs.
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Following this thread closely. I have 400 domains and most of them are just parked with 5MB landing pages. But I keep thinking I should archive the old content before the next registrar implodes.
Is there any provider here that doesn't charge for LIST requests? I have scripts that check headers on thousands of files. That would murder me on Contabo or Hetzner.
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Vultr and Hostinger both don't charge API requests on their object storage, last I checked. Vultr's docs say "no additional fees for API requests" flat out — https://docs.vultr.com
I run a similar setup for client WordPress backups in São Paulo. Vultr's local DC there saves me the Miami latency.
So to summarize for my own understanding:
For small stuff where I might download a lot, Hostinger. For big cold archives where I download once, Vultr. Hetzner only if I'm already in their ecosystem and can absorb the API hit.
Did I miss anything?
InterServer: no API fees, $0.012 egress, first 100GB free. If your total archive is under 1TB and you pull back occasionally, the free tier makes them competitive. Above that, not really.
Also GreenCloudVPS — https://greencloudvps.com — has that $5 minimum which is annoying at small scale.
