Cloud Storage Provider?

If your use case is mainly uploading and serving files publicly, FilePost is probably the simplest option I have come across.

It is just one POST request and you get a permanent CDN URL back. No bucket setup, no IAM roles, nothing else to configure.

I'm renting from https://tilaa.com because they are located in The Netherlands (EU) and they have been very reliable in the last 11 years I used them. Also, I'd rather give "Small Tech" my money than "Big Tech".

Right now Digital Ocean. I love the UI. It's a reasonable choice since they offer a lot of other services than just droplets. It's also why I chose them as an example in my book.

I would stay away of AWS and clouds where you can get billed thousands of dollars by accident. That could be the end of you.

Backblaze B2 when I need block storage. It gets especially cheap when download traffic is low.

In some other cases, I'm just using Hetzner storage boxes. Like @nunobispo mentioned, you can get a pretty decent deal by taking the SX line server. I hope Hetzner will offer S3 compatible block storage someday too. But consider that Hetzner is currently located only in the EU (Germany and Finland specifically).

I use Heroku for servers, and Digital Ocean Spaces for file hosting. I tried Backblaze B2, but Digital Ocean has much better UX, documentation, and support.

I bet if I had done everything on Digital Ocean from the start I would have been really happy, but it's not worth it to switch at the point.

Depends on what you need it for. For backups and storing user uploads for www.dynablogger.com I use wasabi.com, while for documents, source code and file sharing I use Hetzner's managed Nextcloud. Then I use Google Photos for, well, photos :)

I personally use dedicated server from https://www.hetzner.com/.
Their SX line starts at €64/month for a server with 4x16TB disk space.

As for cloud storage itself, their BX line of storage goes up to 10TB for €39.90.

For me either of these options are cheaper than Backblaze B2, also the download traffic prices at Blackblaze are quite high.

I'm not affialited with Hetzner in any way, but been using their products for more than 5 years and could not be more satisfied.

I was recently using digital ocean but after some time I am not satisfied with there service now I am using this service as you can see here.

Depends on what it's for. We use an on premise Synology NAS for some things. I've ended up deploying several client projects from GCS to Linode's Kubernetes stack and using Linodes S3 compatible storage system. It was about 1/2 of the price of GCS for almost the same level of service.

We backup all of our S3 files to the Synology.

For personal stuff, I also use Synology's tools and keep my home Synology synced with my office Synology and vice versa for remote backups. My solution won't work for everyone, but, it works pretty well for me.