# Inexpensive Cloud Storage Option

**URL:** https://forum.duplicati.com/t/inexpensive-cloud-storage-option/11380
**Category:** How-To
**Tags:** hosting-services
**Created:** [December 20, 2020, 7:01am UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/inexpensive-cloud-storage-option/11380 "2020-12-20T07:01:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![nativeit](https://forum.duplicati.com/user_avatar/forum.duplicati.com/nativeit/32/6674_2.png) [@nativeit](https://forum.duplicati.com/u/nativeit)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2022, 4:15am UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/inexpensive-cloud-storage-option/11380/21 "2022-01-13T04:15:52Z")

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I gather there’s likely a difference between your use-case and my own, but just to add my two-cents for anyone whose workload lines up. I maintain strictly backup storage, mostly cold as I only ever pull data off of my storage when things catastrophically fail, to the extent I cannot rebuild things from the local copies. I have been using Backblaze’s B2 for a few years now with very few complaints.

It costs $0.005/GB ($5/TB) for the storage, no cost for uploads, $0.01/GB ($10/TB) for downloads. No minimum requirement. It’s S3-compatible, includes most of the usual features like buckets, snapshots, ACLs, etc.–and it’s widely supported among apps and services like Duplicati and rclone.

I understand there are more affordable options out there, I hesitate to adopt most of them due to how frequently I see them fold after a year or two. I have no opinion one way or another about Backblaze as a company or their other services. But for the price, features, and rock-solid stability, I have yet to find anything that would motivate me to try anything other than B2 storage.

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### Author: ![Sami\_Lehtinen](https://forum.duplicati.com/user_avatar/forum.duplicati.com/sami_lehtinen/32/1779_2.png) [@Sami\_Lehtinen](https://forum.duplicati.com/u/Sami_Lehtinen)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2022, 4:49pm UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/inexpensive-cloud-storage-option/11380/22 "2022-08-30T16:49:44Z")

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Shadow Drive seems to provide 20 GB for free. Yet I didn’t find any information about API so far. Let’s see how it develops, could be really interesting European option.

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### Author: ![mr\_mango](https://forum.duplicati.com/user_avatar/forum.duplicati.com/mr_mango/32/7398_2.png) [@mr\_mango](https://forum.duplicati.com/u/mr_mango)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2022, 10:15am UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/inexpensive-cloud-storage-option/11380/23 "2022-08-31T10:15:12Z")

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I see Lima Labs went bye bye then?

Any one have a good UK based cloud storage option they’d recommend?

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### Author: ![Nordlicht](https://forum.duplicati.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/e47774/32.png) [@Nordlicht](https://forum.duplicati.com/u/Nordlicht)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2022, 11:03am UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/inexpensive-cloud-storage-option/11380/24 "2022-08-31T11:03:31Z")

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Here you can have 1 TB for 3,45 EUR, 5T for 11,78 EUR or 10 TB for 22,49 EUR:  
[https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box](https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box)

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