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Hetzner Storage Box

Hetzner offer affordable storage in Storage Boxes (1TB, 5TB, 10TB, and 20TB sizes). They're a popular BYO storage choice on ElfHosted because of how well they pair with our infrastructure.

Why Storage Boxes work well with ElfHosted

Proximity

If your Storage Box is in the Hetzner Falkenstein datacenter, you'll get the best possible latency and throughput from your ElfHosted apps (which are in the same Hetzner network).

Externally accessible

You can transfer data in and out of your Storage Box without touching ElfHosted infrastructure at all. This means:

  1. You're not subject to ElfHosted rate-limits or resource constraints when moving data in / out.
  2. You can transfer data in / out using rclone from other providers (a clean migration path).
  3. You own your data. If ElfHosted's infrastructure or business fails, your access to your data is unaffected.

Predictable, flat pricing

Storage Boxes are billed at a flat monthly rate by Hetzner. No per-transfer or per-API-call charges, no egress fees.

How to attach a Storage Box

Storage on ElfHosted is bring-your-own via rclone. To attach a Hetzner Storage Box:

  1. Order a Storage Box from Hetzner (Falkenstein datacenter recommended for proximity to ElfHosted).
  2. Use the self-service rclone setup to add a WebDAV remote pointing at your Storage Box.
  3. Once mounted, your Storage Box appears at /storage/rclone/<your-remote-name>/ inside your ElfHosted apps.

The mount-name is whatever you chose during rclone setup; many users name theirs storagebox for clarity, but it can be anything.

The same rclone-mount mechanism works for Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, S3, and any other rclone-compatible cloud. Storage Boxes aren't a special path, they're just a particularly well-suited target.