Object storage that doesn't punish you for downloading your own files.
S3-compatible buckets at $4/TB-month with 11 nines durability and free egress to HostEngine compute and CDN. Multipart, lifecycle, Object Lock, KMS — all included.
- No credit card to start
- Free migrations
- Cancel any time
Drop-in for any S3 SDK or tool.
Boto3, aws-sdk-js, awscli, rclone, Cyberduck, Veeam, Restic, Synology — they all already work. Change the endpoint, keep your code.
- Signature V4 + presigned URLs
- Multipart, lifecycle, versioning, ACLs, bucket policies
- Object Lock with governance + compliance modes
# boto3 against HostEngine endpoint import boto3 s3 = boto3.client( "s3", endpoint_url="https://s3.sjc1.hostengine.dev", region_name="sjc1", ) s3.upload_file("render.mp4", "video-archive", "r/render.mp4") # everything else is just s3 url = s3.generate_presigned_url("get_object", ...)
$4/TB. No, really, $4.
No tiered pricing trickery, no per-region surcharge, no surprise minimum-retention fee on the hot tier. The dashboard shows your projected bill on every PUT.
- Hot tier: $4/TB-month, no per-request minimum
- Warm tier: $2.40/TB-month, auto-promote on access
- Cold tier: $0.99/TB-month with 4-hour restore
11 nines, with paperwork to prove it.
We replicate every object across three independent storage domains in different fault zones. Quarterly third-party audits validate the durability math.
- 3-way erasure coding with quarterly proof reports
- Cross-region replication for an extra $0.50/TB
- Versioning + Object Lock for ransomware protection
Three tiers, one S3 API.
General-purpose buckets for live workloads.
- S3-compatible · Sigv4
- Object versioning
- Lifecycle rules + cold tiering
- Free egress to HostEngine compute
- $0.005 / 10k Class-A requests
Backups, archives accessed weekly.
- 50ms first-byte SLA
- Same S3 API, no separate tooling
- Auto-promotion on access pattern
- Cross-region replication, $0.50/TB
- $0.010 / 10k requests
Compliance archives, video originals.
- Restore in 4 – 12 hours
- 11 nines durability across 3 regions
- Free 3-month minimum retention
- Encrypted at rest with KMS keys you own
- $0.020 / 10k requests
No data-transfer surcharge between HostEngine products. Internet egress capped at 5x storage spend per month.
When the bandwidth bill is bigger than the storage bill.
Video platform
Stores 4 PB of source originals
Migrated from a hyperscaler at $23/TB. Total monthly storage bill dropped from $92,000 to $9,840 with zero changes to their existing s3cmd pipelines.
Backup-as-a-Service vendor
200k client backups nightly
Object Lock keeps backups immutable for 30 days. Cross-region replication adds DR for $0.50/TB extra. Their per-customer COGS fell 38%.
Game studio
Distributes 60 GB game patches
Free egress to HostEngine CDN means a launch-day patch costs nothing in transfer. Last release served 4.2 PB to players for $0 of bandwidth.
Already works with the tools you ship.
Integrates with the stack you already use
- AWS SDK
- boto3
- aws-cli
- rclone
- Cyberduck
- Restic
- Veeam
- Synology
- Duplicati
- MinIO Client
- Terraform
- s3cmd
Storage questions, plain English.
Is this really S3-compatible?
How is egress free?
What about Object Lock?
Can I bring my own encryption keys?
How fast is multipart upload?
Is there a region distance limit on cross-region replication?
Trusted by 180,000+ teams in 140 countries
Stop paying twice for your own data.
Your first 100 GB are free, every region. Move buckets in, point your SDK, and watch your egress bill quietly disappear.
- No credit card to start
- Free migration from any provider
- 99.99% uptime SLA, in writing
# spin up a 4 vCPU / 8 GB cloud VPS in 55s $ hostengine vps create --plan "performance-4x8" --region "fra1" ✓ provisioned vps_2x9k1q (172.247.18.42) ✓ image debian-12 ready · ssh keys attached ✓ snapshot policy: hourly · backups: 30 days $ hostengine domain attach "trading.acme.io" --ssl ✓ DNS verified · Let's Encrypt cert issued in 6.4s