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Is there any open source S3 compatible software? I know Riak Cloud Storage ( http://docs.basho.com/riak/cs/2.1.1/ ), but I think it’s not maintained anymore.
OpenStack Swift or Ceph with Ceph Object Gateway. Don't use minio, it's a toy for testing.
Bandwidth costs have dropped by a huge factor over the past few years; but none of this has been passed on.
I really hope backblaze and/or DO manage to cause the big three some hurt on this and get them to reduce prices significantly; 7c/GB is really high these days.
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When you say way cheaper what do you mean? Like savings of ~$5-10 on a spend of $10-20? Or is it material? Like $50
Well, DO is a minimum of $5 per month (up to 250GB IIRC). 100GB on S3 with just uploads during the month will run under $2.
Support alternatives even if they are a bit more expensive.
The main cost seems to be bandwidth (speeds). If you've ever tried Spaces, you know it's a real slog uploading and downloading (even with good client-side speeds). DropBox has similar specs to Spaces, and does it for only $10. OneDrive has the same thing with $7 for 1TB. And there's another Chinese company, Tencent, that gives you 10TB for free (except it's slow and it's all in Chinese). The problem I have with this…
In theory it should be more reliable, as it's decentralised and your data gets split among multiple servers around the world. The question remains what if the Sia network itself stops being profitable and people all exit at the same time. Although the same could be said for Amazon?
Sia will actually soon be adding a backend to Minio too [3].
The only thing that has stopped me using Sia is you have to have the blockchain running on the machine.
2. https://siastats.info/storage_pricing
3. https://blog.sia.tech/introducing-s3-style-file-sharing-for-...
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Well, DO is a minimum of $5 per month (up to 250GB IIRC). 100GB on S3 with just uploads during the month will run under $2.
I think it would be good if people didn't always pick these services based on price, since that's how you end up with one monopoly service and no alternatives. Support alternatives even if they are a bit more expensive.
The main thing stopping me from using Digital Ocean is AWS RDS which is amazing. If they could bring out a similar solution with backups and MySQL and PostgreSQL, that would be amazing. :) I could then run my apps in docker.
What is the durability objects stored with DO? S3 offers 11x9s of durability. Likewise what is the replication story? Can you get event notifications when objects are uploaded/deleted? Is there versioning? Static website hosting? Lifecycle management?
So they say, but the SLA doesn't make any promises about durability. https://aws.amazon.com/s3/sla/
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Well, DO is a minimum of $5 per month (up to 250GB IIRC). 100GB on S3 with just uploads during the month will run under $2.
I think it would be good if people didn't always pick these services based on price, since that's how you end up with one monopoly service and no alternatives. Support alternatives even if they are a bit more expensive.
(*) for a particular use case. The example is 200GB storage with 2000GB data transfer (out) every month. That's a LOT of data going out every month, so I am guessing the scenario is if you are hosting a photo library and lots of people are downloading every month. If however you are just using the service as an online storage to hold Not knocking either service - I actually use both, for different use cases.
Plus the SLA is different. It probably should be compared to at least AWS S3 reduced redundancy storage.