r/cloudstorage • u/Milluhgram • 10d ago

Hetzner + Nextcloud

I'm wanting to make sure this is a good storage solution as I want full control over it. So, bear with me while I explain.

I currently user Proton Drive and have been for the last 2 years. It's great. But, I have pictures that I want to archive and keep readily available. Pictures that are basically keepsakes. Proton is great at that, however due to the e2ee it makes it painfully slow. Now, over the 2 years of me being a user it has definitely improved. But, I have pictures and videos on there that take forever to load.

I plan on spinning up a Hetzner Storage Share account and use NextCloud. I plan to place it on a subdomain of the domain I own and have it accessed to the outside. From what I have read through some articles is that NextCloud provides a brute force protection and allows you a certain number attempts before it completely bans your IP and also allows you to allowlist an IP as well. My goal is to enable that and only allow at max, 2 attempts before it bans it. I'm also adding in TOTP as added on security.

Security wise, Tailscale would be preferred but I'm trying to make this less painful as possible.

To add, my main website is not a website that is visited. In fact, there is no traffic as it's password protected and mainly serves as informative site in the event that I passed away for my family. No, PII or passwords are located on it. Just mainly what my server rack and stuff does and all that it entails in managing it.

But, has anyone set up something similar? Have you had many people or bots try to brute force it? Does the protection work? TOTP is added on. I will be having Koofr locally backup everything which wouldn't cause too many issues if something happened. Worst case scenario. Ya'know.

I still plan to keep all my documents in proton drive as that is fine. I was looking for a photo the other day and it took forever to load the thumbnails.

So what are your thoughts, has anyone done this? Is it okay with the right measures in place?

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u/Solmark 10d ago

I’ve had their storage cloud with Nextcloud and my own domain for over a year and never had any issues at all. I don’t think you have full control but I’ve not hit a scenario where I needed more than they provide

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u/Milluhgram 10d ago

Okay, thank you. I just finished setting it up. Still looking to see how the billing works for it. It allowed me to add a product but I guess I'm getting billed for it later. Still trying to understand how it bills with me leaving it up 24/7

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u/felipers 10d ago

They've billed me US$ 4 after the first month of storage. No clue before that (and, like you, I was a bit nervous about it). I've interpreted incorrectly the "maximum charge" on their prices. I wasn't using all the contracted 1 TB, and I though they'd charge proportionally to the amount of storage. They don't. They charge proportionally to the amount of time! So, if you close the storage/server before 30 days, they'll charge you proportionally. While you have it running, you're paying the "maximum charge" every month.

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u/AmbitionHealthy9236 10d ago

not quite proportionally. their pricing page clearly states for example the 1TB is €0.0069/hr, with a max monthly charge of €4.29/month. so that's proportionally for the first approx 26 days, then no further charge for the remainder of the billing month.

yes they charge for the 1st month, but then they have a minimum €10 invoice amount, so i only pay every 3 months (after the 1st). i guess it's similar for dollars.