Cloud Providers
List of common cloud providers
Big sizes
Use these for professional applications where uptime, scaling, and support are essential.
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Oracle Cloud
Medium sizes
These are reputable cloud providers, good for small businesss and self-hosted use cases where price and reliability are both important.
- Hetzner
- Akamai Linode
- DigitalOcean
- Vultr
Small sizes
See https://lowendbox.com for smaller cloud providers. These are the cheapest providers. They come and go every few years.
Storage
All the big cloud providers offer storage. These are additional options for different purposes.
Object Storage
Backups
- Backblaze B2 - $6/TB/mo, free egress
- Wasabi - $7/TB/mo, free egress, (90 day minimum per object)
- iDrive e2 - $4/TB/mo, free egress
Note that some of these providers previously had lower per-TB pricing but would charge for egress. Now they provide free egress up to reasonable limits.
Heavy Egress
- Cloudflare R2
SSH/SFTP Backup
- rsync.net
Colocation
- zfs.rent will host your drives with a free VPS for $10/month/drive