{"rid":"storage/hosthatch-storage-vm","card":{"rid":"storage/hosthatch-storage-vm","eid":"hosthatch","topic":"storage","slug":"hosthatch-storage-vm","provider":"HostHatch Storage VM","url":"https://hosthatch.com/products","domain":"hosthatch.com","category":"storage-vps","tier":null,"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","vorder":1,"grp":"usable","confidence":"reported","binding":"per-ip-shaping","identity_kind":"card","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":1,"needs_phone":0,"needs_id":0,"needs_institution":0,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":"rest,sftp,rsync,rclone","egress_metered":1,"per_object_bytes":null,"retention_days":null,"verified_at":"2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z","verified_basis":"inherited","checked_on":"2026-10-21","stale_on":"2026-11-04","n_evidence":4,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":3.8,"summary":"1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 8 / 10 TB HDD, 'enterprise-grade spinning hard disk drives', 8 locations.","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":6},"record":{"topic":"storage","slug":"hosthatch-storage-vm","provider":"HostHatch Storage VM","url":"https://hosthatch.com/products","category":"storage-vps","free_tier":{"stated":"1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 8 / 10 TB HDD, 'enterprise-grade spinning hard disk drives', 8 locations.","unit":"TB","metered_on":"unstated","source_url":"https://hosthatch.com/products","read_on":"2026-10-21","notes":null},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not stated","source_url":"https://hosthatch.com/products","notes":"not stated"},"retention":{"stated":"not stated","source_url":"https://hosthatch.com/products","notes":"not stated"},"egress":{"terms":"Metered with throttle-on-exceed, no published per-TB overage price. Ratios are 2.5x storage: 1 TB plan = 2.5 TB, 2 TB = 5 TB, 5 TB = 12.5 TB, 10 TB = 25 TB. Exceeding it is throttling, not billing — a holder of the 2 TB Hong Kong plan reports '2.5 TB (throttled to about 5 Mbps after limit from my experience)' (LET thread 217891). APAC bandwidth is a separate, smaller pool: a HostHatch rep confirmed on LET that 'the actual limit is 3TB per month for Singapore' while the site quoted 7.5 TB (thread 194949).","metered":true,"free_allowance":"3TB per month"},"interface":["rest","sftp","rsync","rclone"],"interface_detail":"sftp, rsync, rest (self-hosted)","tooling":"rclone SFTP, Borg/Restic, root KVM","chaining":"Root KVM. Note the array is RAID-50 on some nodes — HostHatch itself conceded on LET that 'RAID 50 comes with an inherently higher risk as compared to RAID 10' (thread 188952).","limits":[{"kind":"per-ip-shaping","value":"50 GB/day","source":"https://hosthatch.com/products"}],"limits_note":"per-object-cap: none. APAC gets 40% of the advertised bandwidth (3 TB instead of 7.5 TB on the 3 TB plan).","identity_cost":{"kind":"card","detail":"card","country":null},"reliability_note":"Mixed and the worst reliability record of the three leaders. Documented incidents: HostHatch Chicago storage 'data lost' with 5d15h downtime and multi-day ticket silence (thread 178049); Stockholm storage down (thread 199687); Los Angeles storage outage (thread 188952); one user reports being suspended for writing ~50 GB/day because it 'degrades their array' despite being under the bandwidth cap (thread 122150). Countervailing: a 859-day and a since-2015 customer both report the service as solid (threads 163774, 194092).","confidence":"reported","confidence_note":"One page read moves it to documented.","evidence":[{"url":"https://hosthatch.com/products","date":"2026-10-21","proved":null},{"url":"https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/217891/","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"'2.5 TB (throttled to about 5 Mbps after limit from my experience)'"},{"url":"https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/194949/","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"HostHatch rep: Singapore 'actual limit is 3TB per month'"},{"url":"https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/178049/","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"Chicago storage data loss"}],"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","verified_at":"2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z","price_per_tb_month":"$3.80/TB/mo at 10 TB ($38/mo, 25 TB included). At 5 TB: $20/mo = $4.00/TB (12.5 TB included). At 20 TB: two 10 TB VMs = $76/mo = $3.80/TB. Pricing is linear — no volume break — so the 10 TB rung is the only sensible buy.","notes":"1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 8 / 10 TB HDD, 'enterprise-grade spinning hard disk drives', 8 locations.","extras":{"price_verbatim":"$3.80/TB/mo at 10 TB ($38/mo, 25 TB included). At 5 TB: $20/mo = $4.00/TB (12.5 TB included). At 20 TB: two 10 TB VMs = $76/mo = $3.80/TB. Pricing is linear — no volume break — so the 10 TB rung is the only sensible buy."},"binding":"per-ip-shaping","binding_note":"one stream is shaped, and a user's throughput is the shaped rate times the number of streams"},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":10,"unit":"TB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:per-ip-shaping","num":50,"unit":"GB","per":"day","currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.price_per_tb_month","kind":"price-per-tb","num":3.8,"unit":"TB","per":"month","currency":"USD","usd":3.8,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.evidence[0].proved","withheld"],["$.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":[]}