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So 5x storage per month. NOT unmetered. A LET poster claims \"its actually unmetered if you know how to set it up\" — treat that as unverified forum folklore, not a policy.","metered":false},"interface":["s3","webdav","sftp","ftp","rsync","smb","ssh","rclone"],"interface_detail":"SSH, FTP, rsync, SFTP, DirectAdmin panel. **No WebDAV, no SMB** — confirmed by LET users comparing it to Hetzner.","tooling":"rsync/rclone-over-SFTP only. No S3, no WebDAV, no object API.","chaining":"Weakest chaining of the top candidates: no WebDAV means AList mounting requires an SFTP shim, and no S3 means no presigned URLs. Fine as a pure rsync/Borg target behind an app server; poor as a served origin.","limits":[],"limits_note":"DirectAdmin is a web-hosting panel bolted onto storage — you manage FTP users and bandwidth there. RAID-6 (DE) / RAID-60 (500 GB) at order-page level. US inventory and DE inventory are separate products with separate coupons.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"email","country":null},"reliability_note":"Real hosting business (labze), 2+ years on LET with a Patron Provider tag; users report multi-year renewals at the same price, which is rare. But it is a small operator reselling/colocating, not owning DCs — and the 500 GB SKU is excluded from BFBOX by design.","confidence":"reported","confidence_note":"One page read moves it to documented.","evidence":[{"url":"https://my.hostbrr.com/order/main/packages/storagebox/?group_id=65","date":"2026-10-21","proved":null},{"url":"https://my.hostbrr.com/order/forms/","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"\"Use coupon BFBOX for 40% off yearly purchases recurring!"},{"url":"https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/205842/can-a-let-be-cheaper-than-cloud-storage","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"\"For just €57/year with the recurring coupon code BFBOX (40% off), you get the StorageBox 4 TB plan\""},{"url":"https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/212154/.../p278","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"\"BFBOX for Hostbrr DA boxes gives 40% off and is re-enabled\""},{"url":"https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/212070/","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"... — BF2025 thread: \"The 40% off our DirectAdmin storageboxes return this year\", plus separate \"HDD Block Storage at ... €1/month per TB ... recurring as long as your service is active\""},{"url":"https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/210850/alternative-to-hetzner-storage-box","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"\"Hostbrr's storagebox ... 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With BFBOX 40% recurring on yearly: 16 TB = $213/yr = $1.11/TB/mo; 8 TB = $111/yr = $1.16/TB/mo; 4 TB = $57/yr = $1.19/TB/mo. 5 TB workload: 8 TB plan = $1.16/TB/mo. 20 TB workload: two 16 TB boxes = $2.22/TB/mo (16 TB is their ceiling, so the discount curve breaks at his archive size). Caveat: no WebDAV/SMB and egress = 5x storage."},"binding":"none","binding_note":"no constraint in the record binds at this scale; the record carries no limit of a kind the vocabulary names"},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":500,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.price_per_tb_month","kind":"price-per-tb","num":2.22,"unit":"TB","per":"month","currency":"USD","usd":2.22,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.evidence[0].proved","withheld"],["$.evidence[1].proved","partly-held"],["$.free_tier.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","not-extracted"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-extracted"],["$.retention.notes","not-extracted"],["$.retention.stated","not-extracted"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}