Tell HN: Hetzner just launched object storage in beta
This is a game changer, since this keeps me form having to roll my own Minio. I was considering moving from S3 to R2, but if I can keep all traffic away from the internet until it needs to leave, that is ideal to me. Hopefully they add a CDN too. Beta is limited access and will run until November 1. Hopefully next are managed databases and cache.
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old announcement: https://www.reddit.com/r/hetzner/comments/14e8asj/object_storage_we_are_finally_building_it/?rdt=37121 ↗
doc page: https://docs.hetzner.com/storage/object-storage/ ↗
Everything looks superb, except for one thing, the limit of 1Gbit/second per bucket is not useable in production.
This would be saturated by a single file download. Hopefully it's only a beta limitation!
Link with product info and pricing? Or can you share that info?