DO charges $0.06/GiB per snapshot — every copy, every day, no deduplication. iceDrop stores the same 30-day history in ~16 GB instead of 450 GB. Off-platform, encrypted, and portable to any provider.
One command. Installs the agent, sets up cron, registers your server.
No complex configuration. No SSH access from our side. Ever.
Authorize iceDrop via OAuth. We read your droplet list — nothing else. No password, no SSH keys.
Pick which servers to back up. We provision isolated encrypted cloud storage per server automatically.
Paste one curl command on your server. Installs the backup agent, sets up cron, and registers back to the dashboard.
Here's what running iceDrop on 5 real production servers actually looks like — the exact storage numbers, the exact bill.
5 servers · data on disk vs. stored
Before · DO Backups
$22/mo
$264 per year
After · iceDrop Hobby
$1.67/mo
$19.99/year · 19.6 GB fits in 30 GB pool
Annual savings
$244
92% cheaper · same 5 servers · unlimited retention
Actual storage numbers from a live iceDrop account. On-disk sizes reflect real server data; stored size after Restic deduplication and compression.
Encrypted, deduplicated, compressed, and portable — everything you need to sleep at night.
Data is encrypted before it leaves your server. Your keys never touch our infrastructure. Not even us.
Only changed blocks are uploaded, then compressed before storage. After the first backup, subsequent ones are fast — and your actual B2 footprint is a fraction of your server's disk size.
A lightweight agent backs up on your schedule via cron. No manual steps, no babysitting.
Provision a fresh droplet from any snapshot via cloud-init. ~15–30 min RTO.
Download your backup archive and restore to AWS, Hetzner, or any Linux server. No provider lock-in.
Your backups are stored independently of DigitalOcean. If DO has an incident, your data is safe and accessible.
Pay for storage, not server count. Back up as many droplets as fit your pool. 14-day free trial on all plans.
~$1.67/mo · billed annually
Small droplets, personal projects.
Annual-only. At $1.67/mo, payment processing fees would cost more than our cloud storage. We'd rather be honest than charge more.
Production droplets, small teams.
Agencies, large servers, EU region.
Protecting 10+ servers? Get in touch for volume pricing.
DO charges $0.06/GiB per snapshot — every copy, every day, no deduplication. iceDrop stores the same history in a fraction of the space.
DO Snapshots
15 GB server
30-day daily retention
$27/mo
450 GB stored × $0.06
Deduplication + compression
stores the same history in
~16 GB
instead of 450 GB · compressed on disk
iceDrop Hobby
15 GB server
30-day daily retention
$19/year
covers up to 30 GB deduplicated + compressed
Storage cost estimates assume ~2% daily change rate (typical production server). Actual savings depend on your data change rate — higher churn = less deduplication benefit, but Restic's block-level compression provides additional savings independent of change rate. Honest on RTO: DO restores in ~5 min, iceDrop in ~15–30 min via cloud-init. Run both if sub-5 min matters for a specific server.
14 days free, no credit card. Connect your DigitalOcean account and have your first server backed up in under 5 minutes.
Connect DigitalOcean — free for 14 daysOAuth only. We never see your DO password. Cancel any time.