{"rid":"netdisk-pan/hetzner-storage-share","card":{"rid":"netdisk-pan/hetzner-storage-share","eid":"hetzner","topic":"netdisk-pan","slug":"hetzner-storage-share","provider":"Hetzner Storage Share (managed Nextcloud)","url":"https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/","domain":"hetzner.com","category":"managed Nextcloud, paid only","tier":null,"verdict":"qualifies","vorder":0,"grp":"usable","confidence":"documented","binding":"per-object-cap","identity_kind":"card","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":1,"needs_phone":0,"needs_id":0,"needs_institution":0,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":"webdav,rest,rclone","egress_metered":0,"per_object_bytes":null,"retention_days":null,"verified_at":"2026-10-22T04:06:37.166Z","verified_basis":"live","checked_on":"2026-10-23","stale_on":"2026-11-13","n_evidence":5,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":3.0691,"summary":"No free tier, no trial, and no hourly cap. The smallest plan NX11 is 1 TB at EUR 4.29/month excluding VAT, billed by the hour to a monthly maximum","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":1},"record":{"topic":"netdisk-pan","slug":"hetzner-storage-share","provider":"Hetzner Storage Share (managed Nextcloud)","url":"https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/","category":"managed Nextcloud, paid only","free_tier":{"stated":"No free tier, no trial, and no hourly cap. The smallest plan NX11 is 1 TB at EUR 4.29/month excluding VAT, billed by the hour to a monthly maximum","unit":"TiB","metered_on":"stored-bytes","source_url":"https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/","read_on":"2026-10-22","notes":"Hetzner writes the sizes as TB. The figure is quoted as stated and not converted"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"Not published as a per-file cap. The limit that is published is the instance quota, and the FAQ states that an administrator's 'unlimited' per-user quota is bounded by the instance total","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/"},"retention":{"stated":"Until deleted. No minimum contract period and no cancellation period, and the vendor states that a plan change causes no data loss. Backups of the database and the storage backend run several times a day, to a host the instance is not running on, restorable from konsoleH","days":null,"source_url":"https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/"},"egress":{"terms":"Unlimited internal and external traffic, stated as a product feature rather than implied: 'Storage Shares have unlimited internal and external traffic'","metered":false,"free_allowance":"unlimited","price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/"},"interface":["webdav","rest","rclone"],"tooling":"rclone webdav backend, the Nextcloud desktop and mobile clients, davfs2, curl -u, and the Nextcloud OCC command line through the managed instance","chaining":"WebDAV is the whole point: OpenList mounts it as a first-class remote, and a Cloudflare cache in front turns it into a serving origin. One 10 TB instance can also be sharded internally into per-user quotas with separate credentials, which is the only way in this survey to divide one paid unit rather than make more accounts","limits":[{"kind":"per-object-cap","value":"not published; the JVM-free Nextcloud upload chunking limits a single object in practice and the smaller partners cap at 10 GB per file","source":"https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/"}],"identity_cost":{"kind":"card","detail":"a Hetzner account with a payment method; the order form is at konsoleH. No identity document and no phone verification was seen on the order path. A new account goes through Hetzner's own risk review, which is not the same gate as a card check","country":null},"reliability_note":"Falkenstein, Germany. RAID backend with checksummed integrity checking, several backups a day to a different host, restore from konsoleH. Managed Nextcloud inherits Nextcloud's sync semantics, which is worse for millions of small objects than a raw storage box","confidence":"documented","evidence":[{"url":"https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"the pricing block reads 'NX11 max/mo. EUR 4.29 per month, excl. VAT ... Storage 1 TB ... 3 Users ... unlimited Simultaneous Connections 50', 'NX21 EUR 14.19 ... Storage 5 TB ... 7 Users ... 100', 'NX31 EUR 27.39 ... Storage 10 TB ... 10 Users ... 200'; all three FSN1"},{"url":"https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'Storage Shares have unlimited internal and external traffic' in the Features block, and 'WebDAV lets you automate your access to it'"},{"url":"https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"FAQ: 'this \"unlimited\" space will actually be limited by the overall storage quota size of the Storage Share instance that you (the admin) have bought', and a backup 'is always made to another host machine on which the instance is not running'"},{"url":"https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'No minimum contract period. No cancellation period.' and 'upgrade or downgrade your Storage Share ... without worrying about data loss'"},{"url":"https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"1 TB EUR 4.29, 5 TB EUR 14.19, 10 TB EUR 27.39 per month excluding VAT, and the same three tiers"}],"verdict":"qualifies","verified_at":"2026-10-22T04:06:37.166Z","price_per_tb_month":"EUR 4.29/TB/month on NX11, falling to EUR 2.74/TB/month on NX31 at 10 TB, excluding VAT, read 2026-10-22","binding":"per-object-cap","binding_note":"The instance total is bought and the traffic is unlimited, so what decides the object size is the per-file ceiling nobody publishes. A 20 TiB archive on the 10 TB plan is two units, not a cap problem; a single 300 GiB file is.","confidence_note":"Every number is from the vendor's own pricing block, read. It is `documented` and not `measured` because no instance was ordered and no WebDAV endpoint was exercised: the order path needs a card.","notes":"The cheapest verified managed Nextcloud per terabyte in this survey is not this one, and the reason is the tier shape: EUR 2.74/TB/month at 10 TB against Serverdiscounter's EUR 2.40/TB including VAT at 25 TB. What Hetzner sells instead is the shortest contract and the most boring operations record. the user count is per instance and additional users are not a listed add-on, so a sharded plan must live inside that number.","extras":{"access_mode":"paid","free_tier_exists":false,"region":"FSN1, Falkenstein, Germany","tier_prices_eur_month_ex_vat":{"NX11_1TB":4.29,"NX21_5TB":14.19,"NX31_10TB":27.39},"users_per_instance":{"NX11":3,"NX21":7,"NX31":10},"webdav":"enabled on every tier; the vendor FAQ documents subdomains and CNAME for a custom domain","vat_position":"prices are stated excluding VAT, so a private buyer in the EU pays the local rate on top"}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":1,"unit":"TB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:per-object-cap","num":10,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.price_per_tb_month","kind":"price-per-tb","num":2.74,"unit":"TB","per":"month","currency":"EUR","usd":3.0691,"fx_date":"2026-10-24","parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.notes","partly-held"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}