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Records 5
- caveatSTRATO HiDrive BusinessUSD 10.08/TB-month
Storageidentity cardevidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05
- trialStrato HiDrive — 1 TB for 12 months at €0 (Valentine's promo)
Storagefree tieridentity cardlimit per-object-capevidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05
- paidSTRATO (Windows V-Server VPS XL)USD 74.31/month
Computeidentity cardlimit per-ip-shapingevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-26
- paidSTRATO (VPS S)USD 4.48/month
Egress and tunnelsidentity email?card?limit per-ip-shapingevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-05
- deadhidrive (strato)
Storageidentity email?card?evidence reportedchecked 2026-10-21
STRATO HiDrive Business
Storage- Free allowance
- 1 / 3 / 5 / 10 TB
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- USD 10.08/TB-monthparsed from the record, in USD
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported3 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | 1 / 3 / 5 / 10 TB unit TB; metered on unstated |
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| Price | 10 TB €90 ÷ 10 = €9.00/TB/mo. 5 TB €55 ÷ 5 = €11.00/TB. 3 TB €30 ÷ 3 = €10.00/TB. 1 TB €17.50/TB. ≈$10.44/TB at best. 4.4× Hetzner BX41 for the same capacity. |
| Identity | card card |
| Egress | Not published as a volume on the pricing page. Protocol access (SFTP, WebDAV, SMB, rsync, SCP, Git) is tier-gated: 'Im Business Essential und Standard Tarif sind die Zugriffsmöglichkeiten WebDAV und SMB inklusive. Wenn Sie sich den Advanced oder Premium Tarif gesichert haben, sind alle genannten Zugriffsmöglichkeiten inklusive.' — i.e. rsync/SCP/SFTP may require the higher tier. |
| Per-object cap | not stated |
| Retention | not stated |
| Interface | webdav, sftp, scp, rsync, smb, git, rclone WebDAV, SMB (lower tiers); + SFTP/SCP/rsync/Git (Advanced/Premium). rclone hidrive backend exists |
| Tooling | rclone hidrive backend |
| Composes with | rclone mount → Cloudflare |
| Reliability | STRATO is the German consumer-grade option. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 3
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | www.strato.de/cloud-speicher/hidrive-business/ | 1 TB €17.50/mo, 3 TB €30/mo, 5 TB €55/mo, 10 TB €90/mo, setup €0.00, up to 20 users; promo rows 'danach 12,50 €/Mon.' (1TB), 'danach 25 €/Mon.' (3TB), 'danach 50 €/Mon.' (5TB), 'danach 85 €/Mon.' (10TB) |
| 2026-10-21 | www.strato.de/online-speicher/ | consumer ladder Starter 500 GB €6, Basic 1 TB €7.50, Plus 2 TB €12.50, Family 2 TB €17.50 |
| 2026-10-21 | www.strato.de/online-speicher/ | protocol tier-gating clause and 'Zugriffsmöglichkeiten sind SFTP, WebDAV, SMB, rsync, SCP und Git' quoted verbatim |
More fields 1
| price verbatim | 10 TB €90 ÷ 10 = €9.00/TB/mo. 5 TB €55 ÷ 5 = €11.00/TB. 3 TB €30 ÷ 3 = €10.00/TB. 1 TB €17.50/TB. ≈$10.44/TB at best. 4.4× Hetzner BX41 for the same capacity. |
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Unknown values 5
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- per object cap notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- per object cap stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- Free allowance
- 1 TB, 12 months, €0 (setup €0).
- Verdict
- triala time-boxed or one-time trial, not a recurring allowance
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- per-object-capNo per-file cap published on the plan page
- Evidence
- reported4 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | 1 TB, 12 months, €0 (setup €0). Regular price after the free year is €5/month. Captured promo page states verbatim: 'HIDRIVE Basic | 1 TB | 12 Monate | 0 € | danach 5 €/Mon.' STATUS CAVEAT: the 2026 round closed on 15.02.26 ('Nur bis 15.02.26') and the live valentinsaktion URL now 301s away, so this is NOT orderable today — it is recorded as an annual recurring window (Feb), which is what makes it the slot's only repeatable >=1 TB free allocation. unit TB; metered on unstated |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
Contract term 12 months; auto-renews at €5/mo unless cancelled before expiry — this is the real trap and the reason it is 'trial-like'. Signup requires a full checkout with payment details (card/SEPA/PayPal) even at €0. No per-file cap published on the plan page. |
| Identity | card card |
| Egress | No traffic meter appears on the HiDrive plan page; the plan is sold on capacity only. Unverified whether egress is genuinely unmetered — Strato does not publish a traffic line for HiDrive, which in the German market usually means no byte meter. |
| Per-object cap | No per-file cap published on the plan page |
| Retention | not stated |
| Interface | rest, webdav, sftp, ftps, rsync, smb, ssh, rclone rest |
| Tooling | rclone has a first-class 'hidrive' backend (added v1.59, Tier 1) — https://rclone.org/hidrive/ — plus plain WebDAV, SMB/CIFS, SFTP/FTPS and rsync-via-ssh. This is the best tooling of anything: a native rclone backend, not a webdav shim. |
| Composes with | One promo contract per customer per year, but the promo is ANNUAL and structural — LowEndTalk users state 'They do this every year' (Feb 2024, Feb 2025, Feb 2026 all ran a 1 TB-for-a-year campaign). So the repeatability is temporal, not per-account: N years x 1 TB with a cancel-before-renewal ritual, or N household members x 1 TB. |
| Reliability | Established German host (Strato/IONOS group), German datacentre, TÜV/DSGVO claims. The recurring failure mode reported on LET is billing, not data: forget to cancel and you are charged for year two. Data itself is not reported to vanish. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 4
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | web.archive.org/web/20260214235234id_/https://www.strato.de/ | 'HiDrive Valentins-Aktion / 1 TB Cloud-Speicher kostenlos nutzen … HIDRIVE Basic 1 TB 12 Monate 0 € danach 5 €/Mon.' |
| 2026-10-21 | lowendtalk.com/discussion/214190/strato-hidrive-1tb-12-month | 'Strato offers its HiDrive Cloud with 1TB for 0 euros until 15.02.26. The period is 12 months and without setup fee'; comment: 'They do this every year, its a contract though, if you don't cancel, you renew for another year and they charge you.' |
| 2026-10-21 | www.strato.de/cloud-speicher/hidrive/ | current plan page lists protocols 'WebDAV, SMB' and a 1 TB tier at 6 €/mo list price |
| 2026-10-21 | rclone.org/hidrive/ | rclone backend exists, 'added in v1.59', Tier 1 |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "1 TB, 12 months, €0 (setup €0). Regular price after the free year is €5/month. Captured promo page states verbatim: 'HIDRIVE Basic | 1 TB | 12 Monate | 0 € | danach 5 €/Mon.' STATUS CAVEAT: the 2026 round closed on 15.02.26 ('Nur bis 15.02.26') and the live valentinsaktion URL now 301s away, so this is NOT orderable today — it is recorded as an annual recurring window (Feb), which is what makes it the slot's only repeatable >=1 TB free allocation.","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 3
- per object cap notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- Free allowance
- No free tier; VPS XL is EUR 79.00/month including 19% VAT, and the first three months of a 12-month term are EUR 48.00/month including VAT
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- USD 74.31/monthparsed from the record, in USD
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- per-ip-shapingup to 1,000 Mbit/s port
- Evidence
- documented3 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-26checked 2026-10-26 (live); stale on 2026-11-26
| Free tier | no free tier; VPS XL is EUR 79.00/month including 19% VAT, and the first three months of a 12-month term are EUR 48.00/month including VAT unit none; metered on none |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
prices are printed including 19% VAT; the 1-month table adds EUR 9.00 setup, the 6-month table has no setup line, and the 12-month table has no setup line |
| Binding | per-ip-shaping the 1 Gbit/s port is the first hard ceiling; traffic is unlimited without a published rate. |
| Identity | card an account and a payment method at order; the order flow is account-gated and its instrument list was not read |
| Egress | unlimited traffic on a port up to 1,000 Mbit/s; no byte quota or rate is published free allowance: unlimited |
| Retention | the disk persists for the contract term; the 12-month table prices the first three months at EUR 48.00 and the rest at EUR 79.00 |
| Interface | unknown RDP over a public IPv4; no public API is documented on the page read |
| Tooling | any RDP client; the provider's control panel |
| Composes with | 8 vCPU and 16 GiB for about USD 74 net a month, which is the cheapest German-market row whose licence is bundled rather than itemised |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
| Notes | The EUR 79.00 is VAT-inclusive, so a buyer outside the EU pays the net EUR 66.39 if the reverse-charge rule applies; both figures are recorded because the tax basis is not established. The EUR 48.00 first-quarter rate is a promo; the steady rate is EUR 79.00 including VAT. |
| Evidence note | documented the shape, the VAT-inclusive prices and the term tables are printed on the page read. The licence is included on the evidence of the same hardware costing EUR 39.00 on the Linux page against EUR 79.00 on the Windows page, a EUR 40.00 gap; the page does not itemise it. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 3
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-26 | www.strato.de/server/windows-vserver/ | quoted: 'VPS XL 8 vCores 480 GB NVMe Storage 16 GB RAM 48 EUR/Mon. Aktion fuer 3 Monate danach 79 EUR/Mon.' and 'Preise inkl. MwSt.' |
| 2026-10-26 | www.strato.de/server/windows-vserver/ | the term tables print EUR 79.00 on the 1-month table with EUR 9.00 setup, and EUR 48.00 for months 1 to 3 of the 12-month table followed by EUR 79.00 |
| 2026-10-26 | www.strato.de/server/linux-vserver/ | the same VPS XL hardware is EUR 39.00 on the Linux page, a EUR 40.00 gap against the Windows price that is consistent with a bundled licence |
More fields 23
| shape | {"vcpu": 8,"ram_gib": 16,"disk_gib": 480} |
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| billing model | monthly, 6-month or 12-month |
| term | 12 months for the promo |
| price eur incl vat | 79.0 |
| price eur net | 66.39 |
| promo eur incl vat | 48.0 |
| promo eur net | 40.34 |
| promo months | 3 |
| setup fee eur 1mo | 9.0 |
| monthly usd | 74.31 |
| first month usd | 45.15 |
| monthly usd incl vat | 88.43 |
| monthly usd net | 74.31 |
| first month usd incl vat | 53.73 |
| first month usd net | 45.15 |
| fx | {"pair": "EUR/USD","rate": 1.1193,"date": "2026-10-23","source": "ECB reference via frankfurter.app"} |
| vat note | 19% German VAT is included in the printed price; a non-EU buyer may pay the net figure, which was not confirmed at checkout |
| windows licence | included; derived from the EUR 40.00 Linux-to-Windows gap |
| ipv4 included | yes |
| port mbps | 1000 |
| traffic | unlimited, no published rate |
| stock | orderable; no stock count published |
| cart url | https://www.strato.de/server/windows-vserver/ |
Unknown values 3
- interface: the access interface was not established
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
STRATO (VPS S)
Egress and tunnels- Free allowance
- No free plan: VPS S (1 vCore, 2 GB RAM, 60 GB NVMe) is EUR 4 a month including VAT plus a EUR 9 setup fee, with unlimited traffic on a connection of up to 1,000 Mbit/s
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- USD 4.48/monthparsed from the record, in USD
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- per-ip-shapingunlimited traffic on a connection of up to 1,000 Mbit/s; a third-party index adds a fair-use limit with no published number
- Evidence
- documented5 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-05checked 2026-11-04 (live); stale on 2026-12-05
| Free tier | no free plan: VPS S (1 vCore, 2 GB RAM, 60 GB NVMe) is EUR 4 a month including VAT plus a EUR 9 setup fee, with unlimited traffic on a connection of up to 1,000 Mbit/s unit unlimited; metered on unstated; Promotions list EUR 2 a month for the first 1 or 3 months, then EUR 4 a month; no byte cap is published as a number, and a third-party index adds that the traffic is limited by port speed and fair use. |
|---|---|
| Price | EUR 4 a month including VAT; EUR 9 setup |
| Limits |
No byte cap and no fair-use threshold is published with a number on the pages read. |
| Binding | per-ip-shaping the port speed, not a byte count, is the stated ceiling; no fair-use threshold is published |
| Identity | email (placeholder) unverified: the order flow was not read for what registration asks |
| Egress | unlimited traffic with no extra traffic charge, on a connection of up to 1,000 Mbit/s; one IPv4 address and IPv6 included; no byte cap is published as a number on the pages read; inbound UDP policy is not stated free allowance: unlimited traffic on a connection of up to 1,000 Mbit/s |
| Interface | ssh SSH to the VPS public address; the vendor also lists a VNC console and a rescue system |
| Tooling | wg-quick or any VPN daemon inside the guest |
| Composes with | a EUR 4 a month origin in Germany with no stated byte cap and a one-off EUR 9 setup fee |
| Reliability | unverified: no suspension, throttle or data-loss behaviour is stated on the pages read |
| Notes | The vendor FAQ names a VPN on a small VPS as an intended workload. A third-party index lists the plan at EUR 3.36 excluding VAT, which matches the vendor EUR 4 including VAT. |
| Evidence note | documented price, setup fee, unlimited traffic and port speed are quoted from vendor pages read on 2026-11-04; the fair-use wording is from a third-party index; identity cost is unverified; no server was ordered |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 5
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-04 | www.strato.de/server/linux-vserver/ | VPS S (1 vCore, 2 GB RAM, 60 GB NVMe) is EUR 4 a month including VAT with a EUR 9 setup fee |
| 2026-11-04 | www.strato.de/server/vserver-faq/ | the connection is up to 1,000 Mbit/s with unlimited traffic |
| 2026-11-04 | www.strato.de/server/vserver-faq/ | the vendor names a VPN as a workload that runs on a small VPS |
| 2026-11-04 | serverworth.com/plans/strato/vps-s/ | a third-party index lists the transfer as unmetered, limited by port speed and fair use |
| 2026-11-04 | www.strato.de/server/linux-vserver/ | prices include VAT |
More fields 6
| wg path | native-conf |
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| wg detail | a full Linux guest; wg-quick binds UDP natively unless a firewall is added; inbound UDP was not probed |
| ingress | unverified: no inbound port policy is stated on the pages read |
| volume stated | unlimited; up to 1,000 Mbit/s; fair-use wording on a third-party index only |
| bytes transit | yes |
| transit note | bytes leave through the VPS's own public address |
Unknown values 2
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
hidrive (strato)
Storage- Free allowance
- Free 5 GB tier was discontinued — the free plan ended 2020-04-30; current entry plan is 500 GB at 6 EUR/month.
- Verdict
- deadthe offer or the service no longer exists
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported3 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- checked 2026-10-21checked 2026-10-21 (inherited)
| Free tier | free 5 GB tier was discontinued — the free plan ended 2020-04-30; current entry plan is 500 GB at 6 EUR/month. WebDAV endpoint still live (PROPFIND -> 405 unauthenticated) and rclone has a… unit none; metered on none |
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| Price | none stated |
| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
| Egress | not recorded |
| Interface | unknown |
| Tooling | not recorded |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 3
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | www.strato.de/cloud-speicher/ | the text of Free tier, above |
| 2026-10-21 | free.arinco.org/storage/hidrive/ | cited as the basis of the rejection: free 5 GB tier was discontinued — the free plan ended 2020-04-30; current entry plan is 500 GB at 6 EUR/month. WebDAV endpoint still live (PROPFIND -> 405 unauthenticated) and rclone has a T |
| 2026-10-21 | webdav.hidrive.strato.com/ | cited as the basis of the rejection: free 5 GB tier was discontinued — the free plan ended 2020-04-30; current entry plan is 500 GB at 6 EUR/month. WebDAV endpoint still live (PROPFIND -> 405 unauthenticated) and rclone has a T |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "dead-service","why": "free 5 GB tier was discontinued — the free plan ended 2020-04-30; current entry plan is 500 GB at 6 EUR/month. WebDAV endpoint still live (PROPFIND -> 405 unauthenticated) and rclone has a…","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 7
- chaining: no value was recorded for this field
- egress terms: no value was recorded for this field
- interface: the access interface was not established
- per object cap notes: no value was recorded for this field
- per object cap stated: no value was recorded for this field
- retention stated: no value was recorded for this field
- tooling: no value was recorded for this field