After a year of running Nextcloud storage [1] at Hetzner, I noticed that I hardly use it. Sure, it's nice to have 1TB of storage at around €5/mo, but I simply haven't found a good way to make it part of my digital life. I will experiment with running my own Garage based S3 compatible storage [2] on one of my VPS machines instead (yes, my VPSs have unlimited network traffic).

[1] https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/
[2] https://jan.wildeboer.net/2026/01/1-Local-S3-With-Garage/

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