HostHatch storage VPS: a terabyte of backup space from $5 a month, with no renewal jump

Backup storage is the quiet corner of the VPS market where the arithmetic gets brutal. You are not paying for CPU or NVMe IOPS — you are paying for spinning disks and the electricity to keep them turning, and most providers price that space like it is gold. HostHatch does not: its storage VMs start at $5.00 a month for 1TB, and the same monthly figures apply on renewal, because HostHatch bills month to month with no first-term discount to expire.

The full storage ladder, per terabyte

Every plan below was checked against HostHatch's published pricing on 8 October 2026. All plans include 1–2 vCPU cores, 1–2GB of memory and generous bandwidth allowances, so the only variable that matters is capacity:

• 1TB — $5.00/mo ($5.00 per TB)
• 2TB — $9.00/mo ($4.50 per TB)
• 3TB — $12.00/mo ($4.00 per TB)
• 4TB — $16.00/mo ($4.00 per TB)
• 5TB — $20.00/mo ($4.00 per TB)
• 6TB — $24.00/mo ($4.00 per TB)
• 8TB — $32.00/mo ($4.00 per TB)
• 10TB — $38.00/mo ($3.80 per TB)

Two things stand out. First, the price per terabyte drops from $5.00 to $3.80 across the range, so the bigger plans are genuinely better value rather than a trap. Second, the steps are nearly linear — every additional terabyte costs roughly $4 — which makes planning simple: budget about $4 per terabyte per month and you will land within a dollar or two of any point on the ladder. Our HostHatch pricing page lists every plan with renewal pricing attached.

How that compares with the market

Major-name storage offerings rarely come close at this level. Hetzner's Storage Boxes are a fine product, but the 5TB BX/VBX tier costs more than HostHatch's 5TB full VM at $20 per month — and a HostHatch storage plan is a complete virtual machine, so you get SSH, snapshots, and the ability to run rsync, Borg, restic or anything else you like, not a file-share service with a fixed feature set.

Against the big clouds the gap is absurd. S3-standard style object storage runs to roughly $23 per TB per month before you pay for egress, and a general-purpose AWS EBS volume costs on the order of $80–90 per TB per month. Even the cheapest dedicated "cloud" storage offerings from mainstream providers sit at $7–10 per TB per month. HostHatch's $3.80–5.00 per TB is in a different category.

Where this fits, and where it does not

A storage VM is not fast storage. These plans run enterprise-grade spinning disks in eight locations, paired with modest compute — perfect for backups, media libraries, archive mirrors and off-site rsync targets, useless as the primary disk for a busy database. That is the point: pair a cheap storage VM with one of the NVMe compute VPS deals on this site and you have fast working storage plus slow, vast, cheap archive storage for a combined bill that most providers would charge for either alone.

The renewal story

Because every HostHatch storage plan bills monthly at a single flat price, there is no renewal shock at all: the price you pay in month one is the price in month thirteen. That is the same flat-billing model we flagged in the InterServer slice pricing and RackNerd renewal analysis, and it remains the single best predictor of whether a "cheap" VPS will actually stay cheap. Compute buyers after big RAM should also look at the HostUS month-to-month plans — but at $3.80 per terabyte per month, HostHatch is the reference point for bulk space.