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Ladder: BX21 5 TB €10.90, BX31 10 TB €20.80, BX41 20 TB €40.60. Zero setup fee on every tier. No free tier...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":5},"record":{"topic":"storage","slug":"hetzner-storage-box-bx11-1-tb-3-20-mo","provider":"Hetzner Storage Box BX11 — 1 TB, €3.20/mo (price floor, no free tier)","url":"https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/","category":"iaas","free_tier":{"stated":"BX11 = 1 TB at €3.20/month excl. VAT (€0.0051/hr). Ladder: BX21 5 TB €10.90, BX31 10 TB €20.80, BX41 20 TB €40.60. Zero setup fee on every tier. 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This is the cheapest per-TB 'real storage you can serve from' in the entire corpus.","metered":true},"interface":["webdav","sftp","ftps","ftp","scp","rsync","smb","ssh","rclone"],"interface_detail":"sftp","tooling":"The richest protocol set of any host in this slot, and Hetzner names our tooling explicitly on the product page: FTP, FTPS, SFTP, SCP, Samba/CIFS, HTTPS, WebDAV, plus a bulleted 'BorgBackup / rsync via SSH / Restic / Rclone' line. 10 concurrent connections, 10 snapshots, 100 sub-accounts.","chaining":"No free allowance — this is a cost benchmark, not a free source. Its role in the report is as the denominator: at €3.20/TB/mo, 20 TB cold archive is €40.60/mo, which is the number every 'free' claim in this corpus must beat.","limits":[{"kind":"per-ip-shaping","value":"10 concurrent connections","source":"https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/"},{"kind":"per-object-cap","value":"No per-file cap published","source":"https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/"}],"limits_note":"10 concurrent connections is the binding limit, not bytes — a parallel-GET benchmark will be shaped by connection count (relevant to round 1's 'benchmark with parallel ranged GETs' rule: you cannot open 32 here, only 10). 10 snapshots. No per-file cap published.","identity_cost":{"kind":"card","detail":"card","country":null},"reliability_note":"RAID with checksums, explicitly NOT mirrored off-site ('The data is not mirrored onto other servers'). Snapshots can be automated. Long-standing German host; no data-loss pattern in these forums.","confidence":"reported","confidence_note":"One page read moves it to documented.","evidence":[{"url":"https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"'BX11 … € 3.20 per month, excl. VAT … € 0.0051 per hour'; 'BX21 … € 10.90'; 'BX31 … € 20.80'; 'BX41 … € 40.60'"},{"url":"https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/bx11/","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"'10 concurrent connections … BorgBackup / rsync via SSH / Restic / Rclone'; 'The data is not mirrored onto other servers'"},{"url":"https://hostloc.com/thread-1305667-1-1.html","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"Chinese forum thread '最实惠的文件备份存储空间 Hetzner Storage Boxes' (the same conclusion reached independently on Hostloc before it closed)"}],"verdict":"fails-quota","verified_at":"2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"BX11 = 1 TB at €3.20/month excl. VAT (€0.0051/hr). Ladder: BX21 5 TB €10.90, BX31 10 TB €20.80, BX41 20 TB €40.60. 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