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Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead

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Re: Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead

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Post by noveltyaccount »

nhumrich wrote: post #73
filleokus wrote: post #14

Neat! Pricing wise it might not always make sense though to use the commercial blob storages, especially for solo usage. 1 TB is roughly 20-30 USD per month at AWS/GCP only in storage, plus traffic and operations. R2 is slightly cheaper and includes traffic. Compared to e.g a Google AI plan where you get 5 TB storage for the same price (25 USD/month) + Gemini Pro thrown in.

Backblaze is a lot more affordable

Yes, and they have features like default soft delete with hard delete after x days that makes it a very compelling backup choice (guard against malware and mistakes). I'm a satisfied customer.

Re: Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead

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Post by TeMPOraL »

dewey wrote: post #87
TeMPOraL wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> but that there's app for mobile and desktop operating systems which deeply integrates it in the OS so it's just like a local folder that's magically synced Which mobile OS would that be? The big reason I stopped being excited about cloud storage is that on mobile, from what I can tell, none of the major providers care about "folder that syncs" experience. You only get an app that lets you view remote storage. The o…

I'm using iOS and macOS. On macOS I have the folder that syncs experience (I'm using Synology Drive, but Dropbox works the same way), on iOS I have the "browse remote files" experience but I can pin files I always want to keep available which is what I want.

Right. It's similar to Windows and Android experience. Thing is, for the latter, I don't want to "pin files I always want to keep available" - I want them to actually exist as files in the shared storage, so other apps can operate on them as if on regular files.

(Unfortunately, both mobile platforms themselves are actively fighting this approach, and instead encourage apps to keep data in private databases and never expose them as actual files.)

Re: Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead

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Post by HardwareLust »

bovermyer wrote: post #26
jrochkind1 wrote: post #22

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what am i missing?

Iran made those AWS data centers... unhappy. The comment is disingenuous, though, since Locker doesn't need AWS S3 to function.

It was meant as humor, not technical advice lol.

Re: Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead

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Post by Xeoncross »

giarc wrote: post #58
ryangittins wrote: post #24

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Hah, wow. A post with an ID under 10k. Meanwhile this one is over 47M. I didn't realize I've been reading HN nearly its whole existence. For all my complaining about what's happened to the internet since those days, HN has managed to stay high quality without compromising.

I think a big reason is you are not notified when someone replies to your comment. It reduces heated back and forth arguments.

Instead, the reply/rebuttal almost always comes from a new person. It makes nice reading when you have 6 people in an argument keeping each other honest vs 2.

Re: Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead

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Post by wiether »

npodbielski wrote: post #84
wiether wrote: post #78

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Mind sharing the reference of the server? I would have considered it when rebuilding my media infra but haven't seen anything close to this

I was fishing for nice price for server like that for few months. To be true I saw something similar but even cheaper last year and I should buy then for 20$, but thought that I do not need it. Now those servers are more like 60$/mo. It was something like that. https://www.kimsufi.com/pl/?range=kimsufi&storage=12000%7C11... As you can see price is 180% of that now for bit more storage.

Thanks!

Yeah I thought that it would be the KS range but didn't see anything close in term of pricing.

16TB for $35 is a no-brainer!

I'm currently migrating away from a KS because the disks are almost dead now so I had to go with another solution for TB storage.

But it was great when it was working!

Re: Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead

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Post by Hard_Space »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #86
dewey wrote: post #3

The selling point of Dropbox/Google Drive isn't the storage itself, but that there's app for mobile and desktop operating systems which deeply integrates it in the OS so it's just like a local folder that's magically synced. So it's a cool project, but not really what I'd say is a Dropbox replacement.

> but that there's app for mobile and desktop operating systems which deeply integrates it in the OS so it's just like a local folder that's magically synced Which mobile OS would that be? The big reason I stopped being excited about cloud storage is that on mobile, from what I can tell, none of the major providers care about "folder that syncs" experience. You only get an app that lets you view remote storage. The o…

Wow, I’m surprised. Of all my self-hosting solutions, this needs least maintenance, for me. Recently had to move to a fork of SyncTrazor, because a new project picked up support, but that’s the first time I had to think about it in years. Wish NextCloud and Immich were that easy!

Re: Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead

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Post by layer8 »

Tepix wrote: post #8
dewey wrote: post #3

The selling point of Dropbox/Google Drive isn't the storage itself, but that there's app for mobile and desktop operating systems which deeply integrates it in the OS so it's just like a local folder that's magically synced. So it's a cool project, but not really what I'd say is a Dropbox replacement.

On the other hand when a Dropbox user shares a file with you these days, the nudges have so gotten out of hand that it's a pain to use.

That’s only an issue if you use Dropbox for sharing with non-Dropbox users, rather than for syncing files across devices and accounts, and having an extra versioned copy in the cloud.

Re: Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead

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Post by layer8 »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #86
dewey wrote: post #3

The selling point of Dropbox/Google Drive isn't the storage itself, but that there's app for mobile and desktop operating systems which deeply integrates it in the OS so it's just like a local folder that's magically synced. So it's a cool project, but not really what I'd say is a Dropbox replacement.

> but that there's app for mobile and desktop operating systems which deeply integrates it in the OS so it's just like a local folder that's magically synced Which mobile OS would that be? The big reason I stopped being excited about cloud storage is that on mobile, from what I can tell, none of the major providers care about "folder that syncs" experience. You only get an app that lets you view remote storage. The o…

On iOS, Dropbox integrates with the Files app. Since that was added a couple of years ago, I rarely have to open the Dropbox app itself. About the only time is when I want to restore an earlier version of a file.

You can also mark complete folders as “Make Available Offline”, which will keep their contents updated, though I don’t really use that personally.

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