BorgBase

BorgBase is a hosted backup storage service for Borg and Restic repositories, providing secure offsite backups ^S1. It is used by individuals and businesses to store encrypted backups, solving the problem of managing and monitoring backup repositories ^S1. The service offers a web interface, API access, and monitoring, with plans starting at $30/year and a free tier ^S1.

• Identity: BorgBase, a hosted backup storage service for Borg and Restic repositories ^S1.
• Core purpose: Provides secure, offsite storage for encrypted backups ^S1.
• Intended users: Freelancers, power users, and businesses needing backup storage ^S1.
• Product scope: A web-based service for managing backup repositories, not a backup client ^S1.
• Positioning: Simple and secure hosting for Borg and Restic repositories ^S1.
• Claimed distinction: Every repository is isolated, and data is encrypted at all times ^S1.

Simple and Secure Hosting for your Borg and Restic Repositories. Keep your backups safe with append-only mode, encryption and regular monitoring. borgbase.com: an estimated 10,228 total monthly visits and about 373 monthly organic visits across 21 ranking keywords. Scout crawled 6 pages and measured a technical health score of 92/100.

• Total traffic (modeled): 10,228 monthly visits across all channels.
• Organic search traffic (estimated): 373 monthly visits from search.
• Strongest sampled ranking: vorta at position 1.
• Leading page in the collected evidence: https://vorta.borgbase.com/.
• Closest measured organic competitor: reddit.com, appearing 2 times in the sampled first-page SERPs.
• Technical crawl: 6 pages, health score 92/100.

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Company identity and positioning

Total website traffic

Domain identity

Website capture

Top organic keywords

Independent Google result page

Query: vorta

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Prioritized website intelligence pages

Features

No supporting public-page evidence was collected for this category.

Pricing and plans

No supporting public-page evidence was collected for this category.

Integrations and supported platforms

No supporting public-page evidence was collected for this category.

Product and company updates

No supporting public-page evidence was collected for this category.

This analysis created the first position baseline at 2026-10-21T03:42:18.743Z. Movement appears after the next fresh analysis using the same location and language.

Sampled competitors

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Customers, testimonials, and first-party review claims

No supporting public-page evidence was collected for this category.

Independent review sources discovered

No links to supported independent review platforms were discovered on the collected pages.

Backlink comparison profile

• Domain rating: 62/100
• Backlinks: 8,353
• Referring domains: 1,851
• Dofollow backlinks: 61.0%
• Dofollow referring domains: 54.0%

Collection decision

The Scout search index remains intentionally excluded from automatic Scout analysis. This Scout traffic model profile costs 5 credits (0.5 cents) and is included in the first comparison run so its usefulness can be judged before the recurring collection is finalized.

AI-assistant referral traffic

• Estimated current generative-AI referral share: 1.5%

Scout traffic model did not return a separate AI-referral trend series for this domain.

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Site-stated AI capabilities

No supporting public-page evidence was collected for this category.

These are first-party product claims, not independent measurements of AI-search visibility.

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Website evidence gaps

• pricing: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
• features: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
• integrations: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
• customers: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
• reviews: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
• changes: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
• identity: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
• technical: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.

Independent reviews

No citation-grounded independent review links were found.

Customer proof

No named customers, testimonials, or customer case studies were found.

Independent mentions

• I like https://www.borgbase.com It's set it and forget. You will need to set it ... / Hacker News — I like https://www.borgbase.com It's set it and forget. You will need to set it up for them, then you get an email (from borgbackup, not the client so it works when the client is not running) when a backup hasn't happened for a while. As client there are more options now (like Vorta, from them), but I have had success with https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest and
• Borgbase backups have been unavailable for 3 days / Hacker News — Borgbase backups have been unavailable for 3 days / Hacker News ... Their current ETA for service restoration is another 2-4 days. Despite the warning banner the uptime for customers on us10 instance which has been unavailable for almost a week now is showing at 100%. They are compensating affected customers by crediting 4 weeks subscription but I must say this does make me wonder about their redundancy and recovery architecture. Opshugs to the folks at Borgbase.
• BorgBackup user here and really happy. It was a set and forget for me and after ... / Hacker News — BorgBackup user here and really happy. It was a set and forget for me and after 7 years, the deduplicated backup is still working flawlessly each week. I recommend pairing it with borgmatic 1 , which helps to design away some of the complexities of the underlying borg backup. 1 : https://github.com/borgmatic-collective/borgmatic ... My problem is I learn some tool like this, set it, and then indeed forget it. Then I avoid testing my backups because of the work it takes to un-forget it. Because
• Does anyone use BorgBase for Backup? / H ard/Forum — Hey everyone, I used to do remote backups from my NAS to a secondary server I had stashed in a different location using ZFS Send/Recv commands over SSH. This worked really well, but my situation where I could host my secondary server in a different location wound up wrapping up, so I am looking for an alternate solution for backups. My local NAS is a ZFS setup, so I was looking for a cloud based ZFS Send/Recv backup solution, but the only one I located was VERY expensive. I started looking into
• Absolutely. I pay Borgbase $10 a month (about). I could probably get a huge stor... / Hacker News — Absolutely. I pay Borgbase $10 a month (about). I could probably get a huge storage limit in Google for that money. But it's worth it to me to be answerable to no one. I can't, say, sign in to my ... on my behalf. And if I'm gonna do a "takeout" every
• BorgBase - Simple and Secure Offsite Backups — What our users say I have tried out your service and I must say: I am thoroughly impressed! This is a very good service, very convenient to use, the guided setup is also great. ... for some time now, really impressed with borgbase.com, Really easy to
• BorgBase does not do scheduled pruning? Not even via script? / Hacker News — I don't know the architecture of Borg storage too closely, but I assume that since it is all end-to-end encrypted, Borgbase cannot do the pruning for you. If you use append-only keys, they can't (destructively) prune, you have to use regular keys to do
• I recently launched a backup service for Borg – https://www.borgbase.com. Also b... / Hacker News — I recently launched a backup service for Borg – https://www.borgbase.com. Also big on monitoring (email, pushover, webhook), as this is a common concern for backups. It just lacks terminal-based registration. :-) You could use the GraphQL API to manage

External links were grounded in one live web search. Search snippets are leads, not independently scraped page content; rejected links remain available in Review evidence.

Not established in the collected sources.

Not measurable: wayback: rate limited by archive.org, ladder stopped after 1 probe(s). A gap here means the lookup was unavailable, not that the finding is negative.

Scout — Bounded technical crawl

• Pages crawled: 6 of 15 maximum
• Technical health: 92/100
• Critical issues: 0
• Warnings: 7
• Notices: 8

Issues

Crawled pages

This is a bounded Scout crawl. Core Web Vitals and Lighthouse scores are not claimed unless a dedicated performance audit is connected.

Modeled acquisition channels

First-party connections

No first-party Search Console or Analytics numbers are shown until the site owner authorizes the corresponding Google account. Scout traffic model values above are modeled estimates, not private analytics totals.

The collected pages do not mention any competitors. Evidence gaps include lack of detailed feature documentation, customer case studies, and independent reviews. Open questions remain about performance benchmarks and specific security certifications beyond GDPR.

This report is based on 5 collected pages from borgbase.com, including the homepage, pricing, GDPR, Terms of Service, and Privacy Policy. The evidence catalog contains 120 items, but only a subset was used. External proof search was performed but did not yield additional verified data. Limitations include incomplete page collection and lack of independent review data.

• Official Websitehttps://www.borgbase.com/Verified
• Official Websitehttps://www.borgbase.com/gdpr/Verified
• Official Websitehttps://www.borgbase.com/privacy/Verified
• Official Websitehttps://www.borgbase.com/register/Verified
• Official Websitehttps://www.borgbase.com/tos/Verified
• Articlehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47771256Verified
• Articlehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37115540Verified
• Articlehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41704055Verified
• Articlehttps://hardforum.com/threads/does-anyone-use-borgbase-for-backup.2035874/Verified
• Articlehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49539719Verified
• Articlehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24579816Verified
• Articlehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19484003Verified
• Articlehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24537782Verified